Problem: Write an article based on this summary: Get a professional waxing. Consider laser treatment. Consider electrolysis.

Answer: A professional waxing will work more or less the same way as if you were doing it yourself or having a friend help you. The level of pain is likely to be roughly the same. Professionals may be able to work more quickly than amateur assistants and, depending the service you use, you may be in a more comfortable environment than you would be at home. Back waxing fees will vary by location. $40-$70 for just the back is typical costs will be higher if extra areas are waxed. This option uses a precisely-controlled medical laser to burn individual hair roots. Multiple treatments are usually needed over time to get permanent results. Some limited hair regrowth can occur over time, though multiple sessions make this less likely. This procedure tends to cost about $400-$500 per session. One advantage of laser treatments is that they allow the option of "thinning out" patches of hair, rather than removing all of it. This option uses a small electrical probe to individually shock each hair follicle. Electrolysis is truly permanent once each cell is treated, it is very rare that hair will regrow. However, since each hair follicle must be treated individually, it can be very time-consuming. This procedure costs about $40 per treatment, but a large area like your back may require many treatments.

Problem: Write an article based on this summary: Recognize that your cat phobia is likely being exacerbated by unhelpful thoughts. Make a list of all the negative and unhelpful thoughts that you experience when you are near cats. Replace the negative thoughts with more helpful thoughts.

Answer:
Most people who are afraid of cats are already aware that cats are pretty harmless. However, they have a fear response that is initiated in the brain that they can't currently control. Phobias are often learned behavior. A person may have one bad experience with a cat, he may have subconsciously begun to associate cats with negative things such as illness, or he may have "learned" to be afraid of cats by watching his parents' fearful behavior around them when he was a child. Multiple brain regions are involved in phobias. Therefore, it will take you some time to retrain your brain to think and respond differently to cats. When you are able to identify those unhelpful thoughts, then you can begin to evaluate them. You will probably see that most of these thoughts fall into one (or more) of these three cognitive distortions: Fortune telling is when a person assumes they know what the outcome of a situation is going to be without any true evidence to support it. For example, you may think "This cat is going to scratch me" even though you've never had any interaction with that cat before. Overgeneralizing is when a person takes one specific event and generalizes it to all events. For example, you may think "My friend's cat scratched me two years ago therefore all cats are vicious." Catastrophizing is when you predict that a negative outcome is going to occur and believe that when it does, it will result in a catastrophe. Catastrophizing is when you assume a situation is going to be the absolute worst case scenario. For example, you may think "If the cat scratches me, I will get an infection and die." You can do this by creating alternative statements to counteract the negative thought. When doing this, you are essentially retraining your subconscious to release the unhelpful cognitive distortions and replace them with more positive beliefs. Focus on replacing the negative thought with a positive statement that helps you emphasize neutral or more positive outcomes. For example, you could replace the thought "This cat is going to scratch me" with a statement like "Many people interact with cats every day and do not get scratched." You can even begin by using statements that are less negative then your original thought. For example, you could replace the thought "If the cat scratches me, I will get an infection and die" with the less negative statement, "The worst thing that could happen is that the cat scratches me and runs away. I've been scratched before and it's not so bad. I won't likely get an infection." Eventually you can replace the less negative thought with something even more positive. Try to do this whenever a negative thought pops up. Eventually you'll begin to think more positively about cats.