May 05, 2005 09:33
I'm curious about the psychological dimensions of physical health. What makes uncrazy people hurt themselves? What makes education fail?
Not pointing fingers, but what makes people put themselves in a position for terrible things to happen? Why, when we've heard since elementary school about AIDS and cancer and drugs and seat belts and all that do we still smoke and snort and swallow and not use condoms? Why do boys still pop pills that inflate their organs and girls still make themselves puke and all the other dangerous things we do?