Posted by Ensign Ranlei (Engineering Officer) in Please define sanity. A visit to the CNS.

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Ranlei looked at Katie and sighed, “Ah well You may be seeing a few broken hearted men then. Ihave a bad track record when it comes to be exclusive. I had a bit of a run in with our Chief Science officer. Kinda kissed her in the mess hall. But problem hwise I have one gI can’t solve for myself. I was trapped in a environmental suit recently for several days. I woke up in the suit manicled. Ihave recurring panic attacks in tight enclosed spaces. So I have used the jefferies tubes and crawl ways to move about. As turbolifts set me off. I wasn’t going to bring it up as I have a few trust issues with women. Not a unrea2sonable thing as since I hit puburty most women react badly to me. But I kind of need to get over the claustrophobia.” , Ranlei sighed and started to regret saying anything xat this time.

Ensign Ranlei Greene. Engineer.

Katie laughed internally. This always seemed to happen… right as an evaluation was about to conclude, the crew member would list off a series of other talking points that they needed to discuss. Outwardly, she carefully kept her features neutral. “Is the claustrophobia something that you’d like to work on?” she questioned softly. Sometimes people were happy and accepting of their limitations, so she didn’t like to assume that everything needed to be fixed.

Nunn, CNS

She sighed. “The crawlways are about two minutes slower to get from point A to point B. People are inclinde to see the worst case when it comes to me and I am not my best me if I alow a phobia to control me. At some point I will need to don a eva suit to do repairs to something outside the ship. So Katie I need to resolve this before someone uses it as a reason to transfer me to a planet. So yes I want to fix this. So far my efforts to confront my fears have failed miserably.”, she said and smiled rather wanely. “Besides Katie this is the second best conversation with another female I have ever had. The other one was only better because We ended up kissing. Iwasn’t expecting to end up hazed by the experiance.”, and she smiled again and fidgited with her hair.

Ensign Ranlei Greene. Engineer.

Katie smiled again. “Well, there are some good women out there,” she commented lightly. “Romantic relationships are challenging no matter what sex the participants are. I’d be happy to work through some exposure therapy so we can tackle that phobia, though. The basic premise is employing mindfulness techniques in order to decrease your physiologic response to the stimulus. The holodeck offers several scenarios for this type of phobia and I’d be happy to set you up with them or be present to work through them with you.”

Nunn, CNS