Eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity

Dec 01, 2006 21:01

I've become increasingly frustrated with our society this week. That's not exactly new in itself. For me, a sense of frustration and dissatisfaction with the way things are is a constant companion. The past few days have produced a larger degree of frustration than usual on a very personal level. One of the main reasons I believe so much in ( Read more... )

conformity, friends, friday five, freedom

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qassandra December 3 2006, 04:41:34 UTC
One of the saddest things about psychiatry as it has developed is that there certainly could be a role for chemical intervention in alleviating human misery, but instead the focus has become increasing conformity and, in the case of dis-orders such as ADHD, ability to do economically productive work (or at least not detract from others' ability to do so). The latter is especially troubling considering when you consider that the Nazis defined health in terms of how much work an individual could do (and thus considered all uppers to be healthy drugs . . . wait, what's Ritalin again ( ... )

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meditation December 6 2006, 07:52:15 UTC
because it would scare us and most of us would want to run away -- and that would trigger feelings of anxiety / depression / saviorhood in the angel-visionary and ... we would be deprived of the "happily ever after" story-line. :-)

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chameleonpixie December 3 2006, 09:34:06 UTC
Now I have the church camp song stuck in my head . . .

"I just wanna be a sheep, baa baa baa baa."

*hugs*

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meditation December 6 2006, 07:49:20 UTC
LOTR was special to you as a child? holy cow you are a big fat nerd :P

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