Posted by curtm on July 12, 2006, at 16:47:17
In reply to Re: ... with SOME normal people?, posted by Jost on July 12, 2006, at 16:41:21
I think what she was implying is that people with disroderd thinking/mental illness did it to themselves, but actually they are born with an imbalance on chemical neurotransmitter function (speaking specifically of mood disorders and addiction.) I get a lot of this "misunderstanding from people and it angers me that instead of compassion, we get this "You must have done it to yourself somehow" attitude.
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> I don't believe in normal people--or unicorns.
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> But was the woman saying it as if to suggest that there was something "wrong" with the person? Cause I might think someone has underlying issues-- without meaning anything bad by it.
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> But it can be said, as if to suggest, well, if that person weren't so "screwed up,"--ie somewhat to say making a mountain out of a molehill, as my mother used to put it-- then it wouldn't have bothered them?
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> Is that what caught your attention?
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> Jost
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