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riding_wildfire

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Oct 28, 2009 10:37

nature v. nurture, economics, politics, welfare, pharmaceutical companies, consumerism, lazy, disorder, corruption, capitalism, government, inflation, disposable, price-gouging, hypochondriac, drugs, healthcare, writer's block

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natsutakibi October 29 2009, 01:56:27 UTC

oh Chris, your soapbox is never truly 'away'

riding_wildfire October 29 2009, 02:00:33 UTC

*grins*

riding_wildfire October 29 2009, 02:01:43 UTC

I carry it around in my pocket in case I need it.

*is pleased with self and wiggles accordingly*

abelincoln1864 October 29 2009, 02:50:51 UTC

Wow, I bet you win the prize for biggest answer. :) I do agree with you though.

I know people who are so accustomed to pills for everything, their life missions have become "finding the right pills that work for me." That's the extent of their self development. And I keep hearing that phrase elsewhere as well. I suspect it's a marketing jingle, like 'chemical imbalance' or 'balanced breakfast.' It's deeply ingrained in culture now, and it kind of sucks.

I feel like some of my friends are being had, and I don't really know what to say to them without insulting them.

off my soapbox now. :)

Personally, I do weird things to get the pendulum moving, rituals, selfwork, etc, and I call the tension between each end of its swing 'vitality.'

riding_wildfire October 29 2009, 03:26:06 UTC

Yeah I feel like I'm insulting some of my best friends, too.

On the other hand, I have been a pretty fucked up person for much of my own life, and I have been on anti-depressants briefly, which did not go well for me. My personal experience was that all it took to get myself into the "normal" range was pulling my head of my introspective ass and becoming conscious of what was going on around me and learning to control myself within all the unpredictable variables of my surroundings.

I think I frequently win the prize for longest response. :) To a writer, is that not the point of breaking through a writer's block? To write? To exhaust every possible angle of my own personal take on a subject in the hope that there will be some quality or at least usuable prose that comes out of it?

I'm all psyched for nanwrimo.

riding_wildfire October 29 2009, 03:33:21 UTC

Also, I like the word "vitality" to describe that "tension between each end of it's swing." A nugget, for sure.

And they are being had. The whole world of physchology and psychiatry thrive on people who think they have something wrong with them. And they don't want them to figure out that they've been "cured" all along.

abelincoln1864 October 29 2009, 05:41:09 UTC

Well, ever since the 70's when the industry was taken over by pharma, it is. Now most offices are just front-end distribution centers for the meds industry.

I get most of my personal psychology from Jung, who I love. He was one of those who would take just about any modern 'disorder' and explain how it was just a call from deep within to motivate you into pulling yourself together into wholeness and individuation.

I have dealt with the labels that these benevolent folks tried to apply to me as a child. Now any pain and sorrow I experience is 'pain and sorrow,' period.

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orange_avocado October 29 2009, 15:31:03 UTC

I had a hard time reading through this and making sense of your points, but knowing that it was an exercise in "exhaust[ing] every possible angle of [your] own personal take on a subject" makes it much more coherent. After all, we save editing for December ( ... )

riding_wildfire October 29 2009, 18:46:59 UTC

I still feel like I'm totally out of control once in awhile. Or at least within an inch of being there. Safe venting outlets can be of use, however I do feel qualified to say that, seriously, all it takes is making the conscious decision to keep yourself on this side of the brink ( ... )

orange_avocado October 29 2009, 20:19:19 UTC

I don't know if I'd go so far as to say that therapy is a joke - you said yourself, safe venting outlets can be of use. Some people just don't have those safe venting outlets - or perhaps the people they vent to don't know how to respond. For instance, a friend of my got out of a very abusive 4 year relationship. After time, she met another guy who was the complete opposite of her ex and has been very good to her. However it was really hard for her to get over her intimacy issues. She didn't want to run to anti-anxiety meds, or sabotage her new relationship. But she also didn't trust her friends with this information, so she started seeing a therapist. One who didn't prescribe her meds or hold her hand. And she's really gotten over it. With the exception of a few mild freak-outs, her and her new boy have a stable relationship and she's moved on from her ex. Productive therapy ( ... )

orange_avocado October 29 2009, 20:19:41 UTC

*sigh* HTML fail.