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Date Posted: 14:46:26 08/25/02 Sun
Author: Gray Squirrel
Author Host/IP: 0-2pool18-62.nas51.stockton1.ca.us.da.qwest.net / 65.146.18.62
Subject: Re: fenira
In reply to: Fenira 's message, "Re: fenira" on 06:40:12 08/25/02 Sun

I know I've gone too far into this, but I am driven to relate a little more... (;

I studied a lot of psychology on my own when I was young, took a course in High School (after I had read much about it) and even considered it my major in Junior College (which I became disenchanted in, quit college and then went back to college with a a wholly different major nearly 10 years later...) Digression...

What I wanted to say is that each time I thouroughly delved into the symptoms of any, uhhh... hankering, I became sure I had exhibited those characteristics... it isn't an uncommon phenomenon to do so, actually... nor does that impression/phenomena exclude the possibility that such self-diagnosis has validity...

The names of such "hankerings" are applied to categorize witnessed behaviors, and extremes are more important than the representative symptoms. ...the EXTREMES are more important! in the consideration of calling something a "disorder".

Did I say I became disenchanted? Well, all that name calling of people has little more value than calling a big fat guy a "big fat guy", or a little skinny kid a "little skinny kid"... in order to treat them slightly differently... shall we put signs on people? Hey, this guy listens to music too much, let's call him an "avid aural fixate" and treat him like one, find others.

Not that examining the conditions of human behavior shouldn't be done, by all means, it should... (a relative of mine recently planned her suicide, and that is a major reason I wrote this, considering motives for NOT wanting to, actually...) But all the labeling of hankerings or disorders or whatever you want to call them, I don't know... it seems more senseless to make signs than to examine the individual motives of the individual involved... the driving force behind their values, and their sense of life...

There are studies, certainly, that indicate chemical imbalances (chemical hankerings?) contribute to certain "extreme" outlooks... yet, I wonder if such "imbalances" are not more symptomatic rather than causative... (e.g. the "imbalance" is more a result of the perspective than vice-versa...) But I don't know... I just seems to me that the labels do an unjustice, an injustice of championship and generalization... when such effort would be more appropriatly expended in understanding what it is to confront the idea of life and living in each specific individual... if one truly wants to, desires to...

Ok, I've talked too much and hazily again... just some things (opinions) I felt I wanted to mention.

(And yes, I still think I exhibit profuse symptoms of many "hankerings"... But who wants to be "normal"? Yuck. I like passion, I like art... I think "normal" only kinda' likes those things... I'd rather like tham a lot, even if it means confronting a lot of "what the hell's the point?")

Yeah, so what. Maybe there ain't no "point"... maybe just endless circles. So, enjoy the ride around or something, or don't, but it's more fun to enjoy it.

I know from experience...

(:

-Gray

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