I called my health care provider and arranged to have a counseling session on how to better manage anxiety and stress. They said it had to be a video session which I have never done. I was okay with it. But then I read directions online about how to do this. It said if on a laptop don't look at the screen image of the other person when talking...but look at the camera lens...so it will look to the other person like you are looking directly at them.

This struck me as very strange. They are insisting on a video so it will be like a face-to-face meeting...but you can't actually look at the other person's face on the screen while you are talking to them. This struck me as wacky!

I cancelled the meeting. I will wait until technology catches up to human interaction. I just don't see how this video method would engender a feeling of actually communicating with a person. I would rather do it on the phone but that wasn't allowed.


I would be up to do a video interview online if I needed it for a job. I would be able to do it because I would just be answering questions. It wouldn't matter to me so much about establishing rapport. I mean, I could be pleasant, but I would not be getting too personal in an interview so the lack of eye contact wouldn't matter.


Or...if I got a job and needed to do video meetings I think I would be okay.

But in my personal life...no. And in therapy situations...no. This doesn't bother me too much because I don't really like counseling or therapy anyway...feel very ambivalent about it. I can read books on anxiety.


I don't mind phoning or texting with friends/family.