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The Moth Radio Hour: Not for the Faint of Heart

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How to Cure Social Anxiety

"I'm a journalist and so I do have to talk to some strangers but it's under the guise of a job," she says. "As a journalist you get to call up experts if you don't know about a certain subject" A man named Stefan who lives in Boston specializes in curing people of phobias including social anxiety. He tells her that the best way that he's found of curing people of social anxiety is to have them humiliate themselves again and again.

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