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Most people do not know a lot of basic but important things about stress. - Change increases stress - To-Do list items are also known as "stressors" - Implem
by themodelplumber 8y ago
Most people do not know a lot of basic but important things about stress.
- Change increases stress
- To-Do list items are also known as "stressors"
- Implementing someone else's suggested "happiness plan" in your life could easily kill you, simply because it's new to _you_ and requires dramatic change
To be "right" as per Szasz means to fit into and apply a preferred template in order to bring about that template's preferred outcome more than it means to be true. It is the difference in template that causes the fatal dynamic, not any difference in truth. More true does an individual feel, the more their acted-out template matches their own psychology, and the more they see the template benefiting others who are amenable to its way of framing things. More do they demonstrate alarming symptoms, the more their preferred, best, most trusted template is overridden both objectively and within their subjective experience.
To make all of HN go "mentally ill" simply confine its membership to Facebook fashion groups or the neighborhood butcher shop or the religious cult. The method of or reason for confinement or the place of confinement will always differ, but the result will be the same--absolutely devastating symptoms and strange diseases, etc. Just change, and unknowingly set at an unsustainable pace right from the start.
The illness model has its leverage points in e.g. its natural provision for quick social exits, but other models also contribute much to our self care and other-care.
- jacobush 8y ago- Stay in an abusive (doesn't even have to look too bad) relationship and try to live the other's "happiness plan"
- themodelplumber 8y agoGood example! And a deep topic...
- kian 8y ago>To make all of HN go "mentally ill" simply confine its membership to Facebook fashion groups or the neighborhood butcher shop or the religious cult. This fascinating statement makes me wonder about the rise of mental illness in children. I've tended to fall on the side of prior under-diagnosis, but I wonder if some is actually a result of the children being 'trapped' by modern helicopter parenting and educational systems by removing the time they would need to remain sane by engaging in free, unstructured, self-directed play?