Sugar and Spice
12-03-2008, 12:08 PM
Sorry this is long, feel free to comment x
F*cking ridiculous.
You are just so blind. This is not real. That is real. This is what you want to think. That is what you should be thinking. You should be thinking this as it is real.
Reality is not what we think. It is what is actual. It is what is true. It's not a case of "well, this is real for me" because truth doesn't work like that. Truth is tangible. Truth does not have any grey areas. Truth is not something which can be manipulated. Truth is truth. Everything else is false. It's false regardless of how you dress it up. Saying things like "well, it is a shade of the truth" is not acceptable. Truth is truth. It doesn't have shades of grey or shadows. Truth is not a blend of truth and fiction. That is fiction. That is false.
Society is falling to pieces in a ridiculous mess of bureaucracy, political correctness and the need to label things, animals and people. You are a reflection of this. You have fallen victim to this way of being. Now, it can be argued that it's your own d.amn fault and that the world merely accomodated the role of the victim you seem intent on playing. I think it's partly that and partly that you have adopted the ways of society as a whole and applied them, in a way which suits your wants, to yourself.
It amazes me just how misguided people are. I mean, a large number of occupational psychologists don't seem to actually do anything psychological in their position. You can do a psych undergrad degree, specialise in occupational psych and all to become a health and safety jobsworth. These are the people that make you put a sign up warning people of a wet surface because they aren't observant or careful enough. These are the ones that tell you you can't have decent knives to use when preparing food at a youth group because someone may cut themselves by accident. A prison psychologist is more concerned with ticking boxes and ensuring that the prisoners aren't bullying each other than how well they respond to treatment. If someone commits a crime while extremely drunk and has no education - therefore no job and therefore no flat/house of their own - we should put them in a treatment program for anger management as he obviously has anger problems and a treatment program for alcohol abuse because he got extremely drunk once before we consider giving him the opportunity to get an education. It's so twisted. I could not believe my ears when they turned around and tried telling us that prisoners can suffer PTSD from their own actions.
The mentality today is that we must diagnose everybody with something and often multiple things. It's easier to put the more unusual/negative things down to a mental health problem than to actually accept that people come in different forms. Some of us have a little ritual that we do for luck, some of us feel inferior to everyone else because we have always felt like that, some of us cut to help us get through the tough times. None of this makes us crazy. None of this makes us mentally ill. What makes someone mentally ill is a significant interference with how we live and go about our everyday tasks. We may cut, but that isn't the mental illness. It would be the depression which prevents us from washing ourselves etc that is the mental illness. If we have periods of thinking that we are fat and should stop eating because of this, that is not a mental illness. If we find ourselves limiting what we eat etc because of our ED, that is the mental illness. Just because you like to keep your bathroom symetrical and tidy but this does not expand to any other area, then you are not mentally ill. Just because someone drinks regularly does not mean that they are an alcoholic. They are only an alcoholic if they find it difficult to go without drink, if they drink for certain reasons etc. See a pattern emerging?
I have noticed one within and outside of the mental health service. Professionals trying to implant ideas into people's head just so they can stick a label on them and say "Ah-ha! I've got it. It's this and now I can give you this treatment." People convincing and diagnosing themselves before they have even seen a professional. More than half the things people diagnose themselves with are false, I'm pretty sure.
F*cking ridiculous.
You are just so blind. This is not real. That is real. This is what you want to think. That is what you should be thinking. You should be thinking this as it is real.
Reality is not what we think. It is what is actual. It is what is true. It's not a case of "well, this is real for me" because truth doesn't work like that. Truth is tangible. Truth does not have any grey areas. Truth is not something which can be manipulated. Truth is truth. Everything else is false. It's false regardless of how you dress it up. Saying things like "well, it is a shade of the truth" is not acceptable. Truth is truth. It doesn't have shades of grey or shadows. Truth is not a blend of truth and fiction. That is fiction. That is false.
Society is falling to pieces in a ridiculous mess of bureaucracy, political correctness and the need to label things, animals and people. You are a reflection of this. You have fallen victim to this way of being. Now, it can be argued that it's your own d.amn fault and that the world merely accomodated the role of the victim you seem intent on playing. I think it's partly that and partly that you have adopted the ways of society as a whole and applied them, in a way which suits your wants, to yourself.
It amazes me just how misguided people are. I mean, a large number of occupational psychologists don't seem to actually do anything psychological in their position. You can do a psych undergrad degree, specialise in occupational psych and all to become a health and safety jobsworth. These are the people that make you put a sign up warning people of a wet surface because they aren't observant or careful enough. These are the ones that tell you you can't have decent knives to use when preparing food at a youth group because someone may cut themselves by accident. A prison psychologist is more concerned with ticking boxes and ensuring that the prisoners aren't bullying each other than how well they respond to treatment. If someone commits a crime while extremely drunk and has no education - therefore no job and therefore no flat/house of their own - we should put them in a treatment program for anger management as he obviously has anger problems and a treatment program for alcohol abuse because he got extremely drunk once before we consider giving him the opportunity to get an education. It's so twisted. I could not believe my ears when they turned around and tried telling us that prisoners can suffer PTSD from their own actions.
The mentality today is that we must diagnose everybody with something and often multiple things. It's easier to put the more unusual/negative things down to a mental health problem than to actually accept that people come in different forms. Some of us have a little ritual that we do for luck, some of us feel inferior to everyone else because we have always felt like that, some of us cut to help us get through the tough times. None of this makes us crazy. None of this makes us mentally ill. What makes someone mentally ill is a significant interference with how we live and go about our everyday tasks. We may cut, but that isn't the mental illness. It would be the depression which prevents us from washing ourselves etc that is the mental illness. If we have periods of thinking that we are fat and should stop eating because of this, that is not a mental illness. If we find ourselves limiting what we eat etc because of our ED, that is the mental illness. Just because you like to keep your bathroom symetrical and tidy but this does not expand to any other area, then you are not mentally ill. Just because someone drinks regularly does not mean that they are an alcoholic. They are only an alcoholic if they find it difficult to go without drink, if they drink for certain reasons etc. See a pattern emerging?
I have noticed one within and outside of the mental health service. Professionals trying to implant ideas into people's head just so they can stick a label on them and say "Ah-ha! I've got it. It's this and now I can give you this treatment." People convincing and diagnosing themselves before they have even seen a professional. More than half the things people diagnose themselves with are false, I'm pretty sure.