Therapy patient: help! I’m drowning!
Family: Why can’t you
stop drowning! Nobody else is drowning!
Western Religion: Stop drowning!
Eastern Religion: There is no drowning; there is only
drowning
Psychoanalysis: How long have you felt you were drowning?
Gestalt psychology: Maybe drowning is where you need to be
right now.
Short term behavioral therapy: What strategies have you used
in the past to avoid drowning?
Psychiatry: here are some pills that will help you forget
you’re drowning.
Recovery movement: you can save yourself from drowning!
Cognitive behavioral therapy: try feeling for the bottom with
your feet. Too deep? Try floating on your back. Did that work? Good. Now try floating
on your back and kicking your legs. Good. The shore is about 20 feet away. Point
yourself that way and keep kicking.
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