Where Can I Get a Doctorate in "Life" (Specializing in "Hugs")?
@mythociate (21432)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
August 20, 2012 12:42pm CST
It almost looks like I'm 'just kidding,' but I'm as serious as a tickle-monster can get! 
This came to mind a few months ago, at a Traumatic Brain-Injury Conquerors camp. When we were about to settle-in for the night, a fellow Conqueror was violently vocalizing a sudden need for more control (swiftly babbling and chasing people around for a set of keys). I told one of the counselors there (one of the volunteer med-students) that she really needed a 'hug.'
But the volunteer didn't pay much attention to my advice because I'm not a 'doctor' (of which there were several there trying to control the disturbed Conqueror by calming her down some non-hugging way ... that, and I'm a guy; of course I wanna hug the hot conqueror 
).
So--to direct some more instant-respect to my advice (& for it to look "more-legal" for me to MAKE MONEY just sitting here 'being smart'---telling people the smart thing to do after I take a smart listen to their problems and a smart look over their situation)--I need to be "officially recognized" as one who can do such a thing.
Where do I go to get that recognition? 
P.S. I realize that 'telling people the smart thing to do after I take a smart listen to their problems and a smart look over their situation' sounds like the job of a psychiatrist/psychologist--at least 'as popularized in Kelsey Grammer's "Frasier Crane"'--but I do I become one of those without submitting to Big Pharma's indoctrination-machine?
This came to mind a few months ago, at a Traumatic Brain-Injury Conquerors camp. When we were about to settle-in for the night, a fellow Conqueror was violently vocalizing a sudden need for more control (swiftly babbling and chasing people around for a set of keys). I told one of the counselors there (one of the volunteer med-students) that she really needed a 'hug.'
But the volunteer didn't pay much attention to my advice because I'm not a 'doctor' (of which there were several there trying to control the disturbed Conqueror by calming her down some non-hugging way ... that, and I'm a guy; of course I wanna hug the hot conqueror ).
So--to direct some more instant-respect to my advice (& for it to look "more-legal" for me to MAKE MONEY just sitting here 'being smart'---telling people the smart thing to do after I take a smart listen to their problems and a smart look over their situation)--I need to be "officially recognized" as one who can do such a thing.
Where do I go to get that recognition?
P.S. I realize that 'telling people the smart thing to do after I take a smart listen to their problems and a smart look over their situation' sounds like the job of a psychiatrist/psychologist--at least 'as popularized in Kelsey Grammer's "Frasier Crane"'--but I do I become one of those without submitting to Big Pharma's indoctrination-machine?1 person likes this
3 responses
@cloudflix (112)
• United States
20 Aug 12
Lol... I'm not sure that a hug would calm down someone who desired control (might be felt as more restriction but in physical form), but I agree that reasoning with someone who is frantic would probably be less effective than some kind of physical reassurance, and that experts of the type that you are describing don't usually have respect for more intuitive and simple methods of helping people.
Many times, it is less talk, more comfort that helps people when they are distraught. Some experts, who have refused to be indoctrinated while earning their papers use that certificate to prove their expensive learning obsolete. Regardless, hug away when you think it is approriate, but be careful of those hidden motives, like physical hotness ;-)
Oh, and I have no degrees or certificates, and am not an expert. :-)
@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
20 Aug 12
You're right, and I think comfort (physical hotness or no) is what the hug brings ... kind of a reminder that the frantic person doesn't have to have 'control' when she/he (preferably 'she' 
) can hang on to a living, breathing teddy-bear and just let the problems fade away.
) can hang on to a living, breathing teddy-bear and just let the problems fade away.@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
25 Aug 12
That's another reason for me to get that doctorate: so that--if anybody I hug feels that something about the hug was "wrong"--they know it's not my fault, coz I'm the DOCTOR of hug!
@cloudflix (112)
• United States
22 Aug 12
Very true. I guess how a person would take it is variable based on the huggee and situation. And your hug method. A tight squeeze would be scary, but a friendly, gradual, and soothing hug leaves more control to the huggee.
@Lastbrother (171)
• United States
21 Aug 12
I believe that you don't really need a doctorate in "life". Just promote yourself to everybody and somebody is bound to listen. It's hard to get recognition unless you've actually done this before or for a long time. Other than that, it's very hard to be credible to people.
@besweet (9859)
• Ireland
20 Aug 12
I guess you can do seminars on the subject and become an expert! It would be better to get a degree, but you can start promoting yourself, take the seminars and make business cards. Meet other people from that business and start with your own business. Without a degree you can't be a psychologist but you can promote yourself as a specialist or personal advisor. You have many possibilities to be a successful professional, it depends on how you will sell your talent! Many people out there want to have a person that can hear their problems!
@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
20 Aug 12
But that would COST me more than I'm currently making ... unless I had a sponsor! How would I go about getting a sponsor to pay my way (and my costs-of-living) as I infiltrate the hug-market?
