Automysophobia - does taking a shower help?

Automysophobia is the fear of being dirty or being perceived as dirty. Its a psychological condition in which a person is afraid of being dirty or afraid of being perceived as dirty.

How to overcome Automysophobia?

Ya the obvious way is to convince the mind to become calm and realise that its an irrational fear and be done with it. However, fear is fear as it is irrational.

1. So can taking a shower for example, provide any relief? It may in some cases reduce the feeling of being dirty. Please note that if you are scared of the germs that will come with the water, showering may not be a good option. 9 out of 10, taking a shower does really help overcome the fear.
2. Changing into new clothes can be helpful if the clothes have become soiled or if u atleast feel that they are soiled.
3. Brushing your teeth and rinsing your mouth can provide a feeling of new found cleanliness
4. Cutting nails, shaving etc can also provide benefits.
5. More important than these steps is to remember that none of these steps are overdone. Taking bath 15 times a day will suerly increase the problem rather than reduce it.

If you still feel dirty, inner cleansing methods that purify and calm the mind can also be tried. These methods could be meditation or even sleep.

Change the background color of PDF file

You need to have at least Adobe reader 7.0 or higher for doing this. It is free to download at Adobe.com.Now lets see howto do it.

1. Go to the Edit menu and select Preferences (or just press Ctrl+k)
2. A new window with the heading Preferences will open
3. Select Accessibility as an option from the choices on the left side column
4. Mark the custom color option
5. Choose the required background color
6. Press ok. Save it and the background color will be the same the next time you open the file.

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Vertical Cutting and Pasting-Howto

If you want to cut or paste vertically in a word file this post explains how to do it. First of all lets see what vertical cutting means. Consider the following example,

You have a set of names, say

Alexander Fleming

Alexander the great

Alexander Graham Bell

Cutting vertically

You want to cut out only the second part of the name. But you don’t want to delete all the “Alexander’s”. Just use the Replace all function of word to replace “Alexander” with “Alexander^t”. The “^t” is the character for a tab. Now copy the entire list into an excel sheet. The first part and second part of the name are separated into two different columns.

Pasting vertically

You have a set of conditional statements and you want to add the word “for” in front of each of the conditions. Create a column with the word “for” in each row using excel. Paste the list of conditions on the column next to it. Copy both the columns into notepad and replace all the tab spaces by a space. For example you will go from

(i=0;i<5;i++){}

(j=0;i<5;i++){}

(k=0;i<5;i++){}

(l=0;i<5;i++){}

(m=0;i<5;i++){}

to

For (i=0;i<5;i++){}

For (j=0;i<5;i++){}

For (k=0;i<5;i++){}

For (l=0;i<5;i++){}

For (m=0;i<5;i++){}

The tab character can be used in notepad by selecting a tab space in word and pasting it into the replace option. It should look like a small vertical rectangle (notepad does not show many symbols but can differentiate between them).