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I scored an own goal (= made things worse rather than better) when I told my boss it had only taken me a day to write the report. Now she wants me to write several a week.
My boss always seems to be moving the goalposts (= changing the rules), which makes it very difficult to know what he wants.
The new EU laws aim to provide a level playing field (= fair situation)for all member states.
He’s too young to be in the running (= seriously considered)for such a job.
The two main parties in the election are still neck and neck (= level with smb. and equally likely to win) in the opinion polls.
Politicians often skate around (= don’t talk directly about)a subject.
The students all sailed through (= passed very easily)their exams.
ACQUIRING COMMUNICATION SKILLS
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A Visit to the Doctor
Doctor: Well, what's the matter with you, Mr. Walker?
Mr. Walker: You’d better ask me what is not the matter with me, doctor. I seem to
be suffering from all the illnesses imaginable: insomnia, headaches, backache, indigestion, constipation, and pains in the stomach. To make things still worse, I’ve caught a cold, I’ve got a sore throat, and I’m constantly sneezing and coughing. To crown it all, I had an accident the other day, and hurt my right shoulder, leg and knee, and nearly broke my neck. If I take a long walk, I get short of breath. In fact, I feel more dead than alive.
Doctor: I’m sorry to hear that. Anyhow, I hope things aren’t as bad as you imagine. Let me examine you. Your heart, chest and lungs seem to be all right. Now open your mouth and show me your tongue. Now breathe in deeply, through the nose... There doesn’t seem to be anything radically wrong with you, but it’s quite clear that you’re run down, and if you don’t take care of yourself, you may have a nervous breakdown and have to go to hospital. I advise you, first of all, to stop worrying. Take a long rest, have regular meals, keep to a diet of salads and fruit, and very little meat. Keep off alcohol. If possible, give up smoking, at least for a time. Have this tonic made up and take two tablespoonfuls three times a day before meals. If you do this, I can promise you full recovery within two or three months.
Mr. Walker: And if I don’t, doctor?
Doctor: Then you’d better make your will, if you haven’t yet done so.
Mr. Walker: I see. Well, thank you, doctor. I shall have to think it over and decide which is the lesser evil: to follow your advice or prepare for a better world.
2. At the Dentist’s
Nell: Hello, is that you, Bert? Nell here. I'm so glad I've found you in.
Bert: Hello, Nell. How’re things?
Nell: Fine. Listen, Bert. I’m bursting with news. Just imagine - yesterday I had the first real patient of my own.
Bert: You don’t say so! Who was it?
Nell: A nice old dear with a lot of teeth to be pulled out. It’s such wonderful practice for me!
Bert: Are you quite sure that some of his teeth couldn’t be filled?
Nell: None of them! I sent him to have his teeth X-rayed, so it’s all right.
Bert: How did you manage to get such a marvellous patient, I wonder?
Nell: He came with a bad toothache. It had been bothering him for a day or two already.
Bert: Were there no other dentists in the surgery?
Nell: No, I was the only one. It was Sunday.
Bert: Poor old thing! I hope you didn’t try to pull out all his teeth at once, did you?
Nell: Don’t be silly. I just chose the easiest one to begin with.
Bert: I see... And how did you get along?
Nell: Wonderfully. I tested his blood pressure and gave him a couple of injections, though he said that my smile worked better than any injection.
Bert: Oh, he did, did he? And he didn’t have a heart attack after the tooth was taken out? It would have been natural for an old man.
Nell: No, he just felt a bit sick and giddy. I gave him a tonic and told him to stay in bed for a while and take his temperature.
Bert: Perhaps I’d better drop in and check his heart? I’m on sick leave now and can do it at any time.
Nell: You needn’t. I’ll ring him up and in case he’s running a high temperature, I’ll let you know. But I do hope he won’t. The day after tomorrow he’s coming again.
Bert: Are you sure he’s not going to make an appointment with some other dentist?
Nell: I don’t think he will. When he was leaving, he said he looked forward to having all his teeth pulled out and he would keep them all as souvenirs to remember me by.
Bert: Well, I wish you good luck then. Hope to hear from you soon. Bye for now, Nell.
Nell: Good-bye, Bert. I’ll let you know how things are going on.
Questions:
1. What do you usually do when you get sick?
2. How often do you go to see the doctor? What specialists do you usually visit?
3. Do you always follow the doctor’s prescriptions?
4. How often do you visit the dentist? What problems with your teeth do you usually suffer from?
5. How would you feel when treated by a young doctor, who might have not very much experience? Have you ever been treated by such?
6. What usual treatment do Russian patients get from dentists?
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A Victim to One Hundred and Seven Fatal Maladies
from “Three Men in a Boat” by Jerome K. Jerome
I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight ailment. I got down the book and read all I came to read; and then, in an unthinking moment, I idly turned the leaves and began to study diseases, generally. I forgot which was the first, and before I had glanced half down the list of “ premonitory symptoms ”, I was sure that I had got it.
I sat for a while frozen with horror; and then in despair I again turned over the pages. I came to typhoid fever - read the symptoms - discovered that I had typhoid fever - began to get interested in my case, and so started alphabetically.
Cholera I had, with severe complications; and diphtheria I seemed to have been born with. I looked through the twenty-six letters, and the only disease I had not got was housemaid’s knee.
I sat and thought what an interesting case I must be from a medical point of view. Students would have no need to “walk the hospitals” if they had me. I was a hospital in myself. All they need do would be to walk round me, and, after that, take their diploma.
Then I wondered how long I had to live. I tried to examine myself. I felt my pulse. I could not at first feel any pulse at all. Then, all of a sudden, it seemed to start off. I pulled out my watch and timed it. I made it a hundred and forty-seven to the minute. I tried to feel my heart. I could not feel my heart. It had stopped beating. I patted myself all over my front, from what I call my waist up to my head, but I could not feel or hear anything. I tried to look at my tongue. I stuck it out as far as ever it would go, and I shut one eye and tried to examine it with the other. I could only see the tip, but I felt more certain than before that I had scarlet fever.
I had walked into the reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a miserable wreck.
I went to my medical man. He is an old chum of mine, and feels my pulse, and looks at my tongue, and talks about the weather, all for nothing, when I fancy I’m ill. So I went straight up and saw him, and he said:
“Well, what’s the matter with you?”
I said: “I will not take up your time, dear boy, with telling you what is the matter with me. Life is short and you might pass away before I had finished. But I will tell you what is not the matter with me. Everything else, however, I have got.”
And I told him how I came to discover it all.
Then he opened me and looked down me, and took hold of my wrist, and then he hit me over the chest when I wasn’t expecting it - a cowardly thing to do, I call it. After that, he sat down and wrote out a prescription, and folded it up and gave it me, and I put it in my pocket and went out.
I did not open it, I took it to the nearest chemist’s, and handed it in. The man read it, and then handed it back. He said he didn’t keep it.
I said: “You are a chemist?”
He said: “I am a chemist. If I was a co-operative store and family hotel combined, I might be able to oblige you.” I read the prescriptions. It ran: “1 lb. beefsteak, with 1 pt. bitter beer every six hours. 1 ten-mile walk every morning. 1 bed at 11 sharp every night. And don't stuff up your head with things you don't understand.”
I followed the directions with the happy result that my life was preserved and is still going on.
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1)An old gentleman came to see the doctor. The man was very ill. The doctor looked at him and said, “No medicine can help you. If you want to be well again, you must have a good rest. Go to a quiet place for a month, go to bed early, eat more roast beef, drink lots of milk but don’t smoke more than one cigarette a day.”
A month later the gentleman came into the doctor’s office. He was a different man.
“Oh, doctor!” he said. “Thank you very much. Everything is fine and I am well again. But, doctor, it’s not easy to begin smoking at my age.”
2)Hob was sitting in the doctor’s waiting-room. On the chairs at the wall other patients were sitting. They all looked sad except Hob who was reading an exciting story in a magazine. Just then the doctor came in to say that he was ready to see the next person. Hob got up and went into the consulting room.
Before Hob could say a word the doctor said, “Now what’s the trouble? Sit down there and we’ll have a look at you. Unfasten your jacket and your shirt, please. I’ll listen to your heart.” Hob tried to speak, but the doctor interrupted him and ordered him to say “ninety-nine”. Hob said it. “Now let me see your throat, open your mouth wide.” The doctor had a good look and then he said, “Well, there’s nothing wrong with you.” “I know there isn’t,” said Hob, "I just came to get a bottle of medicine for my uncle."
3)A man went to his doctor and requested treatment for his ankle. After a careful examination, the doctor asked:
“How long have you been going about like this?”
“Two weeks.”
“Why, man, your ankle is broken! How didn’t you come to me at first?”
“Well, doctor, every time I say something is wrong with me, my wife goes at me and says I’ll have to get over my habit of smoking.”
4) – Yousay he left no money.
- No. You see, he lost his health getting wealthy and lost his wealth trying to get healthy.
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1) Patient: Doctor, I think that I've been bitten by a vampire.
Doctor:...
2) A man goes to the doctor and says, “Doctor, wherever I touch, it hurts.”
The doctor asks, “What do you mean?”
The man says, …
3) The doctor to the patient: “You are very sick.”
The patient to the doctor: “Can I get a second opinion?”
The doctor again: …
4) Patient: Doctor, I have a pain in my eye whenever I drink tea.
Doctor: …
5) Patient: Doctor! You’ve got to help me! Nobody ever listens to me. No one ever pays any attention to what I have to say.
Doctor: …
6) Question: What did the doctor say when the invisible man called to make an appointment?
Answer: …
7) -I have an awful toothache.
- I’d have that tooth taken out if it was mine.
- …
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1) Patient: Doctor, I think that I’ve bitten by a vampire.
Doctor: Drink this glass of water.
Patient: Will it make me better?
Doctor: No, but I’ll be able to see if your neck leaks.
2) A man goes to the doctor and says, “Doctor, wherever I touch, it hurts.”
The doctor asks, “What do you mean?”
The man says, “When I touch my shoulder, it really hurts. If I touch my knee - OUCH! When I touch my forehead, it really, really hurts.”
The doctor says, “I know what’s wrong with you - you've broken your finger!”
3) The doctor to the patient: “You are very sick.”
The patient to the doctor: “Can I get a second opinion?”
The doctor again: “Yes, you are very ugly too...”
4) Patient: Doctor, I have a pain in my eye whenever I drink tea.
Doctor: Take the spoon out of the mug before you drink.
5) Patient: Doctor! You've got to help me! Nobody ever listens to me. No one ever pays any attention to what I have to say.
Doctor: Next please!
6) Question: What did the doctor say when the invisible man called to make an appointment?
Answer: Tell him I can’t see him today.
7) -I have an awful toothache.
- I'd have that tooth taken out if it was mine.
- If it was yours, I would, too.
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1. At the Doctor's
a) A patient enters the room and tells the doctor what he/ she is suffering from.
b) The doctor asks the patient to strip to the waist and then examines him/ her.
c) The patient asks the doctor what’s wrong with him/ her. He/ she seems to be worried.
d) The doctor tries to comfort the patient and writes out a prescription.
2. At the Dentist's
a) A patient complains of a bad toothache.
b) The dentist asks him/ her to sit down and examines his/ her mouth. One of his / her teeth should be pulled out.
c) The patient is afraid. He/ she feels sick and giddy.
d) The dentist pulls out his/ her tooth and shows it to the patient who brightens up and looks happy.
At the Bedside
a) A boy complains of a sore throat.
b) His mother is worried. She takes his temperature, it’s normal. His throat is all right.
c) Then the boy pretends to have a stomach-ache and a headache, to be sick and giddy.
d) His mother understands he is feigning illness and orders him to go to school.
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The Quality of Healthcare in the United States
Healthcare in the United States is modern and scientific. Physicians, clinics, and pharmaceutical companies seek the newest and most advanced treatments. Patients expect their doctors to use the most modern methods of diagnosis and treatment so that their symptoms can be identified and their illnesses treated quickly and effectively. Technology plays an important role in specialty care and in the diagnosis and treatment of illness.
The philosophy of U.S. healthcare emphasizes identifying physical symptoms, finding their causes, and treating them. Medical care in the United States is based on the idea that illness is a physiological condition. Historically, U.S. healthcare providers have not been trained to consider the relationships among mind, body, and spirit; healthcare in this country has, instead, focused on isolating problems and finding treatments for specific physical conditions. More recently, medical and nursing schools have begun to provide limited training on holistic health care. Some physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals now consider possible emotional causes for certain physical symptoms. The type of holistic approach to medicine often found in other parts of the world is not commonly available in the United States.
Hospital emergency rooms are reserved for critical medical emergencies. They are prepared to provide treatment for life-threatening and critical situations, such as uncontrolled bleeding, broken bones, high fevers, dehydration, unconsciousness, and seizures. If you seek care in a hospital emergency room for minor problems, you will probably have a long wait, impersonal care, and a large bill.
U.S. healthcare is very expensive. Healthcare costs, including hospital and clinic charges and doctors’ fees, are determined by market economics. Treatment is provided on a “fee for service” basis. Payment is often due when the service is rendered, using personal funds or previously-purchased medical insurance.
Medical insurance is essential in the United States. There is no universal national healthcare insurance plan in the country. Americans must arrange for their own medical insurance; most do so through their employers, or by purchasing private policies for themselves and their families.
No insurance plan covers every expense. Some types of treatment will be excluded from coverage (for instance, dental services, plastic surgery, eye prescriptions, etc.) and, even for expenses that are included, you will be expected to share the cost by paying a portion of the bill.
Questions:
1. What is the idea of holistic healthcare? Do you know any countries where this approach is adopted? What is your attitude to this approach?
2. Why could you be unsatisfied with the service provided at hospital emergency room if you seek help for minor health problems? Is the situation similar or different to that of Russia?
3. What healthcare expenses is a person to meet himself/ herself? Why do Americans need medical insurance? Does it cover all medical expenditures of a person?
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When you visit a doctor or clinic, the procedures may be unfamiliar to you. In the United States, doctors and other healthcare professionals value efficiency and thoroughness, often more than expressing personal concern. You may first be asked to provide information about yourself and your ability to pay for the services. You may meet with a nurse or physician’s assistant, who will probably take your temperature, blood pressure, weight, and other measurements; she or he will probably ask you many questions about the reason for your visit. In some cases, the nurse or physician’s assistant will conduct the examination and provide treatment.
If so, it is because your condition is a common one, the treatment routine, and the practitioner is fully trained to provide the appropriate care. Nurses, physicians, and other medical professionals will expect you to explain your symptoms and conditions objectively, even if you are uncomfortable or intimidated. Always give complete and detailed information. If you have questions about your condition, treatment, or medical options, ask the doctor or the nurse. They expect and value your interest and questions. It is common in the United States for patients to ask about the medical procedures, options, treatments, and cost of care, and to express preferences about which treatment and medications are prescribed.
Different countries have different laws about which medications may be sold without a doctor’s prescription. In the U.S., medications available without a prescription at pharmacies, supermarkets, and other retailers are called “over-the-counter” medications.
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1. Who do you think is responsible for the care of your health - you yourself, your parents, or your doctor and medical people?
2. What do you think is the most serious health problem in Russia? What can
be done about it? Can this problem be solved within the national program on
healthcare which is under way at the moment?
3. What do you think of the health service in this country? What is it like? How
can it be improved?
4. If you had enough authority, what would you do to improve Russians’ health?
5. What do you think about abortion?
6. What do you think of cosmetic surgery? Do you know anyone who has had cosmetic surgery? Would you ever consider having cosmetic surgery?
7. Would you consider donating your organs after your death?
8. Do you think nuclear power is safe?
9. What kind of pollution is the riskiest?
10. How could you comment these words of Henry Louis Mencken about health: “Simply a state in which the individual happens to be perfectly adapted to his environment. Obviously such states cannot be common, for the environment is in constant flux.” Does it mean that we cannot speak about the health of nation?
11) What do you know about the SARS virus or AIDS? Is our society treating these and other plagues adequately?
12) What do you think about vaccination? Can it help in treating diseases?
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Iridologists examine the eye for irritation or deposits in nerve fibres, which they say correspond to inflammation or infection in the body. They also claim to detect inherent weaknesses, and can discover whether a person has a predisposition for certain illnesses.
Aromatherapy uses essential oils from plants, which are diluted with carrier oil before being rubbed into the skin. Different plants are supposed to have different healing properties. Like other massages, it’s soothing, pleasant and relaxing.
Homeopathy is based on the principle of using the similar or the like to treat the like. A German doctor, Samuel Hahnemann, found that using substances at extreme dilutions and shaking them violently produced a correspondingly more powerful effect. This process of potentizing (= enhancing)has become the key feature of homeopathy.
In acupuncture, needles are inserted at an acupuncture point, then aligned with energy pathways called ‘meridians’, which connect internal organs with points along the body’s surface. The needles are rotated clockwise or counterclockwise, according to whether energy is to be stimulated or damped down.
Questions:
1. What makes those various treatments different from more conventional medicine? What treatment could be offered in their place?
2. Choose one alternative therapy which you find particularly interesting. Make a list of the reasons why you would or would not want to try it, then discuss your reasons with a partner.
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Acupuncture and Other Alternative Therapies
“As an acupuncturist I think it’s important to understand the philosophy of Chinese medicine, which includes the belief in Chi and the body’s energy flow. If you have an even flow of chi you are in good health. What acupuncture offers is an ability to tap into the Chi. It is then possible to readjust a person's flow of energy if it is has become unbalanced. Before I treat anybody, I take some time to study the patient’s medical history. I also read the body's pulses. We can take the pulses at twelve different places, and each place relates to different organ. From this information I can decide if there are any blockages in the flow of energy or indeed any surges of energy. It is at this point I decide where I’m going to insert the needles. These needles increase or reduce the flow of energy when they are twisted at the appropriate meridian points. Don’t worry - it doesn’t hurt and you won’t bleed.
There is great interest and acupuncturists have a long waiting list. The reason for this is partly because conventional medicine has become increasingly impersonal. Ordinary doctors are over-worked and don’t have enough time to spend on each patient. It is often easier and quicker for them to hand out pills than to give proper personal attention.
Now I believe that acupuncture can benefit most people suffering from disease or who are in pain. In China it is used as an anesthetic. I myself used it on my wife when she was having our last child. It certainty seemed to reduce her need for pain-killers.
What acupuncture does is encourage the body to heal itself, which is, after all, a natural tendency. There is nothing drastic about the treatment, and people feel more in control of their bodies than when they are subjected to all that high-tech equipment in a modern hospital.”
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Alternative Therapies and Migraine
A great many people have headaches. For millions it’s a nuisance that can easily be cured by a couple of aspirin pills. For some, however, that headache becomes a nightmare. Headaches of such severity are nearly always due to migraine. Cases of migraine only increase largely due to stress of city living where noise and pollution are contributive factors. In addition, it’s recognized that particular foods and wine can bring on a migraine as well as inadequate sleep.
Conventionally, treatment with the painkillers is usually very effective especially if the patient suffers from nausea. A more successful approach is to use alternative therapy. Mild bouts of migraine can be relieved by homeopathic remedies, usually in the form of tablets which dissolve under the tongue and do not irritate the stomach.
Acupuncture produces excellent results in cases of sever migraine. Four needles applied to points of the face give rapid relief, and freedom from attacks can be achieved after as few as six treatment sessions.
Hypnosis is another technique which can be used. Many people misunderstand hypnosis. A hypnotic state is simply one of deep relaxation. You are still in complete control and can not be made to do anything against your will. Hypnosis is an effective cure for migraine, as it induces a trance in the patient and migraine attacks eventually disappear.
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1. Do you think you will live until a ripe old age? Why or why not?
2. What do you think about getting old?
3. What is the average age of people in your country? Can you explain why?
4. What are the aspects of being old?
5. What can old people do to pass time?
6. Are you afraid of being old? What are you afraid of?
7. What do you expect to feel like when you are old? What will you do? How do you see yourself when old?
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Citations about health and doctors:
1. [Health is] the first of all liberties. (Henry F. Amiel)
2. [Health is] a man’s own observation (of) what he finds good and what he finds hurt of. (Francis Bacon)
3. [Health is] the absence of disease, and … of all those kinds of pain which are among the symptoms of disease. (Jeremy Bentham)
4. [Health is] not a condition of matter, but of mind. (Mary Baker Eddy)
5. [Health is] the first wealth. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
6. [Health is] the ground-work for all happiness. (Leigh Hunt)
7. To wish to be healthy is a part of being healthy. (Seneca)
8. [Health is] the one condition taken for granted by those who have it. (Anonymous)
9. [A doctor] is one upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well. (Ambrose Bierce)
10. [Doctors are] nature, time, and patience. (Henry G. Bohn)
11. [Doctors are] men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing. (Voltaire)
12. [Medicine is] nothing more that the substitute of exercise or temperance. (Joseph Addison)
13. They [doctors] do not heal, but only relieve suffering temporarily, exchanging one disease for another. (Mary Baker Eddy)
14. [Medicine is] a good laugh and a long sleep. (Irish proverb)
15. [Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. (Napoleon)
16. [Medicine] consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. (Voltaire)
17. [Medicine is] the knowledge of the loves and desires of the body, and how to satisfy them. (Plato)
WRITING
Living Stress Free
1. What situations do you find stressful (meeting someone for the first time, making a public speech, having much work to do, etc.)?
2. Do you work or study for long hours under stressful conditions?
3. What is the most stressful / least stressful job you can think of?
4. Which would you choose: A stressful job with very high pay or a relaxing job with considerably low pay? Why?
5. Does the place you live have a low-stress environment? What do you think “a low-stress environment” means?
6. How do you relieve stress (listening to a certain kind of music, going shopping, taking a long walk, being alone, being with other people, eating more or eating less, taking alcohol, etc.)?
7. Do you always follow the same pattern to relieve stress or do you try different things? Do you deal with stress differently than your parents do/did?
8. Are you capable of relieving your stress or do you need help?
9. What is the most stressful experience you have ever had? Did you learn anything from that experience?
10. What do you think is the greatest cause of stress for most people?
Мобильник вызывает астму и экзему?
Как показывают последние исследования, мобильные телефоны могут быть причиной аллергии.
Доктор Хаджиме Кимата (Hajime Kimata) из токийской больницы Unitika высказал предположение, что микроволновое излучение мобильных телефонов может «провоцировать» являющиеся причиной аллергических реакций антигены в крови тех людей, кто уже страдает от аллергии.
Доктор Кимата обследовал группу из 52 больных, страдающих аллергией. Всем им было предложено просмотреть видеофильм продолжительностью один час. Половина из них параллельно разговаривала по мобильным телефонам, у другой они были предварительно отключены.
«Проверив их кровяное давление, мы обнаружили, что мобильные телефоны ведут к росту содержания в крови определенных химических веществ, провоцирующих такие аллергические реакции, как экзема, сенная лихорадка и астма, — говорит Кимата. — Результаты нас удивили, однако в их результатах не приходится сомневаться — исследование надлежащим образом контролировалось. У одной группы обследуемых мобильные телефоны были включены, и они принимали звонки во время просмотра часового видео. Другая группа просматривала тот же видеофильм, однако у ее членов мобильники были выключены, и принимать звонки они не могли. Складывается впечатление, что значительный рост аллергических уровней может быть вызван использованием мобильных телефонов».
Дальнейшие исследования показали также, что у пользовавшихся мобильными телефонами обследуемых кожная реакция на клещей домашней пыли или пыльцу кедра также оказалась более высокой, чем у контрольной группы.
Проводящиеся в настоящее время исследования влияния мобильников на здоровье дают пока что противоречивые, но в целом тревожные результаты. Имеются свидетельства того, что мобильный телефон негативно влияет на здоровье мужчин, может вызвать развитие опухоли уха и негативно влиять на работу мозга вообще, а также разрушать клеточную ДНК.
Кроме того, сейчас в некоторых странах мира мобильных телефонов больше, чем людей, и подключенные к сотовым сетям граждане находят все новые и новые поводы для волнений, связанных с мобильниками.
В результате, говорят эксперты, на свет появился телекоммуникационный эквивалент синдрома «фантома конечности», когда у человека с ампутированной конечностью появляется ложное ощущение ее наличия, хотя ее больше нет.
Довольно часто в публичных местах можно наблюдать такую картину: где-то раздается звонок мобильного, и все люди поблизости с неистовой энергией начинают проверять свои карманы и сумки. Психологи склонны полагать, что это проявление одной из форм новой фобии, связанной с мобильниками.
Этот феномен уже получил название ringxiety («мания звонка»). Научные данные, стоящие за новой теорией, достаточно обоснованы: определенные звуковые диапазоны - от 1 до 6 кГц - легче улавливаются человеческим ухом и поэтому в большей степени стимулируют реакцию.
В мании звонка существенную роль играет психологическая потребность всегда быть на связи, ни на секунду не выпадая из общего информационного поля. Именно эта потребность заставляет людей, сидя в кафе или ресторане, выкладывать мобильник на стол.
А при потере аппарата у некоторых людей начинаются истерики, причем не из-за дороговизны пропавшего устройства, а из-за невозможности быть на связи, пусть даже и временно. Впрочем, пока «мания», как и многие другие расстройства, провоцируемые современной жизнью, не является настоящим, признанным заболеванием.
Есть и другие, менее очевидные психологические расстройства, способные быть вызванными мобильным телефоном. В некоторых странах, в том числе в Великобритании, набирает оборот сервис Bluedating, позволяющий обладателям мобильника знакомиться друг с другом посредством технологии Bluetooth.
Казалось бы, что в этом плохого? Однако психологи считают, что подобные способы знакомств способствуют развитию у людей социофобии и неуверенности в себе. «Пользователям Bluedating сложно пересилить себя, подойти к понравившемуся молодому человеку или девушке и просто познакомиться. Боязнь быть отвергнутым или неправильно понятым заставляет людей фактически прятаться за такими технологиями, как Bluetooth. Bluedating часто позволяет общаться анонимно, не прибегая к личному знакомству, а это еще больше развивает в людях неуверенность в себе», - считает доктор психологических наук Петра Бойнтон.
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