Voicelessness and Emotional Survival > Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board
Anything
Meh:
And the nomination goes to.... for distinguished WORD of the year....
Merriam Webster has picked GASLIGHTING as word of the year. Now, imagine a 17 year old in a Marxist praxis intervention program trying to resolve it. Oh well.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/word-of-the-year
sKePTiKal:
There certainly has been a LOT of gaslighting.
But I learned (the hard way) way back when... that NO ONE can tell you what to think or feel. That's all you. A person gives up a bit of their autonomy, if they simply cave under the gaslighting and give up trying to determine their own reality.
Ain't doin' that anymore. ;)
Meh:
Was reading articles that claim between 9%-13% of the population have personality disorders.
Could be any kind of PD I guess.
It's actually a very high rate isn't it. I have no idea if this is true or not it just appears to be generally what is written.
There are some very influential people that frankly seem like awful people.
The term "discomfort" has now been popularized in justice jargon. When I read the context of these things it sounds really mentally unhealthy. It sounds like sadism but with the authority of scholarship behind it.
Something is wrong in schools and I don't think it's a moral panic.
sKePTiKal:
Where did the idea that it's possible to live life without any effort, strain or difficulty come from? This subliminal expectation seems to be at the root of a lot of people's "UNsync" with life and themselves. And sometimes, even worse things.
Where did the idea come from, that it was healthy to teach people (specifically young developing people) that no one ever REALLY fails at things? To me, this is one of the most destructive "trends" to ever show up in educational theory. Precisely because failing is a necessary aspect of one of the longest lasting types of learning - trial and error. Many scientific theories that we take for fact now... as well as many other aspects of life - say, cooking or bread baking - involve persisting to try again, changing this or that, despite "failure" in a specific attempt. Removing failure from education, to me, sends the implicit (but wrong) message that success doesn't cost anything at all - and it's all around us like the air we breathe.
How many times did caveman societies try to hunt mammoths - only to miss a throw or be trampled before they learned that success most usually came from timing and teamwork? What if they'd given up? Or been convinced they were "mighty hunters" despite not bringing back food?
Hopalong:
I think the only thing possible is to focus on identifying this disorder in others and avoid those people. Or if it's essential to interact, make huge sustained effort to train yourself to not react or to under-react to the cruel or frustrating or unfair things they do, for the sake of your own health.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version