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Having a cat may not cause mental illness, just that in my experience having a cat is a sign of mental illness
by daysforbeef 10y ago
Having a cat may not cause mental illness, just that in my experience having a cat is a sign of mental illness
- thatcat 10y agoReally? What's your reasoning here? I would speculate that having a dog would be a better after the fact indicator of mental illness considering their more frequent use in animal assisted therapy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal-assisted_therapy#Types https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal-assisted_therapy#Types
- jjtheblunt 10y agoi realize you're joking, but it made me think: i wonder if there are any correlations about "not having a pet" with egocentrism.
- daysforbeef 10y agoI feel people who own pets don't see things from a pet's perspective. But that's probably just me. Having someone love you based on sort of sort weird stockholm-syndrome based relationship is weird. The cat comment, as much as it's a joke I have seen most folks around me who own cats have this need for constant drama. And Goodness, no matter how much the cats randomly lashes out at these owners, the owners still love em, where's the bloody logic in that? I guess everyone on here is a S&M lover. But anecdotal evidence doesn't count for much haha
- wincy 10y agoI found my cat outside in the dead of winter, she came inside voluntarily, I got her fixed, and I keep her fed. I nursed her back to health when something bit open her leg while she was outside. She goes out pretty much every day and is waiting for me at the door when I get home. I mean, the alternative is the cat being a stray or being put down in a shelter, are either of those better? I don't have to go home every day to my wife, but I still choose to. I don't think that's "Stockholm Syndrome", just a good situation that I want to continue.
- rosser 10y ago> But anecdotal evidence doesn't count for much haha Don't discount confirmation bias. I'd bet that's also in play, in your narrative about "cat people".
- daysforbeef 10y agoyep yep true and most likely true
- cowpewter 10y agoIf a cat is "randomly lashing out" at their owners, then yeah, that's a pretty good sign that the owners don't see things from the cat's perspective. Cat social behavior has its own internal consistency though. Usually the problem starts when people expect cats to behave like dogs. They don't have the same motivations as dogs at all. Learn cat body language, and understand that cats see us as big, weird, slightly dumb, hairless cats that belong to the same "cat colony" as them, and nothing a cat does will seem "random" anymore.
- daysforbeef 10y agoWith all due respect, I will never understand how that statement differs from trying to understand the ways of an abusive ex and trying to thread carefully based on it? pretty sure the abusive nature comes from somewhere and then for some darn reason I'm walking on egg shells when I could pretty much invest my time in a more nicer manner. Unless you think that putting up with complete crap is something people ought to aspire to do (don't mean to come up as an asshole, but seriously mate?)
- jcslzr 10y ago"not having" maybe not, but I try to stay away of anyone who does not like dogs or music. Something is fundamentally wrong with those people.
- pvaldes 10y agoIs an animal that is often misunderstood.
- dragonsky67 10y agoI may resemble that remark ;-)