This kind of shit pisses me off.
I apologize for the language in the title, but that's how I feel.
You should hear the sneering way people discuss Freudian psychology and psychoanalyzing. There voices simply drip with disdain. It's as if those ideas had no benefits. As if they didn't have a lot of influence on the ideas today and didn't provide stepping stones to different ideas. As if they have no bearing whatsoever. Talking about your problems is obviously not going to help at all.
But let's take a look at what we as a society have replaced it with, shall we? We drug our children for every little personality quirk. As if it is wrong to be different in the slightest. We now have drugs to treat shyness. What the fuck is wrong with being shy? Why does everyone have to be exactly the same? They do not have a hormone problem! Those drugs are harmful if you don't need them, and I promise that unless it is actually harming their life, i.e. they are not able to speak at all around other people or can't leave the house, they don't need them.
We are going to become a society of zombies because if this trend continues we will all be on Paxil or Zoloft or Xanax.
Read Brave New World and think about soma.
I even hate the fact that my sister and grandmother and, as I recently discovered, my grandfather have to take drugs for their behavioral problems. If you had ever seen them off the drugs, you would see why. And I want it to be known that, as a family, we always strive to get Cassey on as low a dose as possible by exploring other methods (such as therapy) to help her. It's not about making life more comfortable for the people around us, but about making her a functional member of society.
You should hear the sneering way people discuss Freudian psychology and psychoanalyzing. There voices simply drip with disdain. It's as if those ideas had no benefits. As if they didn't have a lot of influence on the ideas today and didn't provide stepping stones to different ideas. As if they have no bearing whatsoever. Talking about your problems is obviously not going to help at all.
But let's take a look at what we as a society have replaced it with, shall we? We drug our children for every little personality quirk. As if it is wrong to be different in the slightest. We now have drugs to treat shyness. What the fuck is wrong with being shy? Why does everyone have to be exactly the same? They do not have a hormone problem! Those drugs are harmful if you don't need them, and I promise that unless it is actually harming their life, i.e. they are not able to speak at all around other people or can't leave the house, they don't need them.
We are going to become a society of zombies because if this trend continues we will all be on Paxil or Zoloft or Xanax.
Read Brave New World and think about soma.
I even hate the fact that my sister and grandmother and, as I recently discovered, my grandfather have to take drugs for their behavioral problems. If you had ever seen them off the drugs, you would see why. And I want it to be known that, as a family, we always strive to get Cassey on as low a dose as possible by exploring other methods (such as therapy) to help her. It's not about making life more comfortable for the people around us, but about making her a functional member of society.