Comments on: Update: Agoraphobic employee’s promotion http://overlawyered.com/2006/05/update-agoraphobic-employees-promotion/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=update-agoraphobic-employees-promotion Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sun, 27 May 2012 02:23:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Supremacy Claus http://overlawyered.com/2006/05/update-agoraphobic-employees-promotion/comment-page-1/#comment-3001 Supremacy Claus Sun, 21 May 2006 13:22:28 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3470#comment-3001 If one has agoraphobia, the treatment is exposure to avoided situations. <a href="http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/143/9/1106" rel="nofollow">http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/143/9/1106</a> Allowing a worker to stay home, dooms to a lifetime of disability. Such patients may be more disabled than paraplegics. The latter may go where they please, drive, work, do sports, something untreated agoraphobics allowed to stay home cannot do. If one has agoraphobia, the treatment is exposure to avoided situations.

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Allowing a worker to stay home, dooms to a lifetime of disability. Such patients may be more disabled than paraplegics. The latter may go where they please, drive, work, do sports, something untreated agoraphobics allowed to stay home cannot do.

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