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Re: resiliency and optimism » SLS

Posted by hyperfocus on February 14, 2013, at 21:53:27

In reply to Re: resiliency and optimism » hyperfocus, posted by SLS on February 14, 2013, at 13:48:02

lol the point I was making Scott is that people like you and Dinah are anything but weak or not resilient or not optimistic.

I see a lot of people who spend a great deal of their life worrying about the opinions and expectations of others and making choices as to a career and a mate and nearly every decision in life in compliance with these restrictions. What they believe in and consider worthwhile and fulfilling is as tenuous as air. The real meaningful things in life that are hard to get and not what everybody else desires and require a level of sacrifice and courage -- these are completely closed and opaque to them. If life is easy for you and you do nothing to improve yourself and others then this among many other things I consider mental weakness.

I consider nihilistic people who act as if fame, money, power, sex are the only things in life that should be worshiped and striven for. I don't like the fact that young women I know consider people like Rhianna to be a role model and crave what she has accomplished and adopt her attitude towards relationships and sex and drugs and her own body.

I see a lot of people who at the approach of even minor adversity abandon everything they believe in and everyone around them. They believe themselves entitled to lie and cheat and abuse and neglect everyone in their lives and do anything they can to cope with the fact that the world and other people and their own bodies and mind are not automatically programmed to give them what they desire their whole life. People who happen to achieve wealth or fame learn sooner or later that these things cannot insulate you from our innate fragility and tend to act this way it seems more than the lot of us crazies.

Then I see people who remain pretty much the same through whatever adversity they face life. People who still believe in the same things and care for and reach out and to try to help others despite their own tremendous struggles. The point I was making is that mental illness -- our emotional and cognitive sensitivities or deficits or damage -- has nothing to do with the true human qualities inside us.

> > I see a lot of people everyday who I know are mentally weak and selfish and nihilistic and will crack at the slightest hint that life isn't what they thought it was. From what you write about here I never considered you in that category.
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> How do you know that the people you categorize as being weak aren't actually quite strong? You don't know what they have been confronted with in life. Every man has his breaking point - even the "strong" ones. I am weak for waging an intense war against depression that has lasted for over 35 years. Who would know this unless I were to tell them? Even the strongest of people can be laid waste instantaneously by an acute episode of mental illness.
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> I'm sorry to be confrontational, but I don't think categorizing people as being either weak or strong is very productive. To me, this seems to be judgmental and wholly unfair.
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> I imagine I was born to be just as resilient as the infant laying next to me in the hospital. My mental illness has defeated me - not because it persists, but because I could not maintain the fierceness I once had, as I am now weary from waging the war necessary to survive. It has taken me awhile to recognize that my current uncharacteristic lack of motivation to engage in life is the manifestation of defeat. I have been weakened and no longer wish to push.
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> I am only now beginning to recover from defeat, thanks to the improvement in my condition afforded by biological treatment. It will be awhile before my core personality and fierceness regrow and become resources for resilience once more. I am fortunate that my metaprogramming remains largely intact so that I can teach myself how to function in society and once again self-actualize. It will be a slow process.
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> - Scott


C-PTSD: social phobia, major depression, dissociation. 20 yrs duration.
Asperger's Syndrome.
Currently: 150mg amitriptyline single dose at night. 75mg Lyrica occasionally.
Significantly improving.


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