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To: Girlene
No, it's not ridiculous, steve86. It's called survival instinct.

I'm fairly well acquainted with the outpatient psychiatric industry where patients come in with all kinds of irrational anxieties. Heights, for example, something that is based on innate and normal fear but becomes exaggerated and irrational in certain patients. What they feel is that somehow the drop is going to come up and grab them even though a railing or glass wall separates them from the fall. This is how I see people reacting to the Emory situation. Can railings and containment fail? Yes, that's why you don't hang over the edge of the railing or set up a tent over the exhaust vent of the containment ward. Being a 1/2 mile away in a different ward -- fear is not rational there.

128 posted on 08/02/2014 12:52:41 PM PDT by steve86 ( Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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To: steve86
fear is not rational there.

I call it common sense, and it is rational.
151 posted on 08/02/2014 1:17:36 PM PDT by Girlene (Hey NSA!)
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