Posted by jojo on July 23, 2001, at 18:53:09
In reply to Re: Effexor stuff » jojo, posted by Elizabeth on July 23, 2001, at 15:51:14
> > Sorry, I'm having computer trouble, and I can't spell check this.
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> It's ok; spell checking is overrated.
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> [Re the 70's]
> > People were doing drugs, as they always have,
> > except that powdered coke was becoming popular as
> > the American "improvement" on the centuries old habit of leaf chewing,
> > which is still legal in Columbia, and more acceptable than the high tech, purified,
> > more potent, extract).
>
> Chewing coca leaves and making tea out of them is also common in Peru.
>
> > World Book Dictionary:"Euphoria":a feeling of happiness and well being. EU - good;PHORIA-well bearing, ease of bearing; good bearing.
>
> For clinical purposes, euthymia means good-normal mood, while euphoria means, well, a little better than normal. < g >
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> -elizabethI know. I'd like to know when "They " took over the word, what is its etymology. What does "thymia" mean, anyway, and why wasn't euphoria, self descriptive as it is, acceptable? Is the language being used to hide somethings that we don't wan't to accept about this peculiar thing called "mood", which, my Clinical Psychologist friend has told me has no scientific definition, even though one can be diagnosed with haveing a Disorder of 'It'. When we try to define "mood", we're getting awfluly close to defining "Consciciousness", another word which we have carefully avoided. I think it was Nicholas Humphrey who defined "mood" as "what it's like to be ... something..., that thing whose "Mood" we are interested in.My supposition is, at the end, lies lack of Free Will, and I don't think "we" are able to accept that at the present time.
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