Posted by floatingbridge on June 4, 2011, at 11:18:12
In reply to Re: don't change your life - change your drug » SLS, posted by linkadge on June 4, 2011, at 9:40:26
> I think is very difficult to tell whether something is MDD or simply a natural reaction to major life stressors. Some doctors would argue that there is no difference, and both warrant the same treatment.
> I think some people subconsiously avoid adrressing the things in their life that they feel that they can't change, are too difficult to change, or that they don't
want to change.
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> LinkadgeHi Link,
I agree people in general are somewhat at the very least subconciously avoidant, yet do majority really break down? Self-collusion serves a protective function. Avoidance is not the right word here--sounds willfully rational and most people are an aggregate of more than their rational self.
I know we're talking theory here, since PB represents a heterogeneous dx population, and I understand your main meaning. When the great societal urge to have someone else do one's recovery for them started, at least in the states, I don't know. There was the excitement in science that relief was within reach for a spectrum of ailments. When does that coincide with the rise of corporate interests in creating a market greater than the need? But at PB the need is pretty real in all it's variables.
Many at AA walk that fine line given in
the Serenity Prayer. The only widely available medicine when Bill W began AA was alcohol. People would risk drink wood alcohol during prohibition. The rise of gout in Europe during the 14th(?) Century coincided with the importation of sugar, a rich persons' substance that
was documented to cause exotic physical
changes in the consumer.Drug addicts, alcoholics. What are they
doing? There's some genetics to be
explored as a society from which science springs reexamines it's moral assumptions.However, the 12 steppers, religious and community groups help quite a bit in aiding people in coping with lives they might not have chosen or somehow cannot otherwise change.
Some people work awfully hard, you know, the lives of quiet desperation line. Someone shows them something pretty, a little bottle of sky blue pills and says here take one. You'll feel so much better, and there's no unsightly mess to deal with. Until one is kicked around by such seductions once or twice, it looks like a great deal.
* and whoever gazes at the stars will never again be quite alone...
c-ptsd & attendant health concerns
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