Posted by dj on February 25, 2000, at 19:10:52
In reply to Re: Still Irritated, posted by Elizabeth on February 25, 2000, at 18:23:28
Be irritated as you will and consider me as narcisstic and grandiose as you wish. That's your problem, not mine.
> > DJ, I still find it awfully egocentric of you to assume that just because YOU believe YOU used medication as a crutch, that the same is true for all others.
>I' don't see a crutch as a bad thing. It has it's time and place, temporarily, to be let go of once healing has occurred. My comments were general comments about my experience and you can personalize them as you will, or not. Again, that's your problem, not mine. I'm not saying that any of this is easy or universally true, but I am saying it's pretty simplistic to think a pill is doing anything more than dealing with symptoms and not root causes.
In Buddhism they distinguish between pain and suffering. Those who are in pain, clutch their suffering tightly. I see a lot of that here. Is that good or bad? No, it just is. For me it's tiresome just like some of these knee-jerk responses based on your own narcisstic dogmas.
> As far as self-discovery goes, incidentally, I think poetry and literature are great...which is why I was surprised to see a list almost exclusively of self-help and "inspirational" >books instead.There are more inspirational than self-help books in this list, which you might find out if you took the time to read a few of them. And they are all very well written. And I have a few books of Shakespeare and the like about too, just didn't care to mention any of the many other books that adorn my shelves, just ones that I thought some folks in babbleland might want to check out, if they want to look elsewhere. So if some of you don't appreciate that, so be it, tante pise as the Quebecois say.
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