Posted by zeugma on January 6, 2006, at 19:00:30
In reply to Answer this question as Fast as you can!, posted by Nickengland on January 6, 2006, at 18:31:45
oh, this has to be the grimmest, grimmest thread i have ever read.
Now therapy has never worked for me. And psycho-babble as a kind of therapy... well, these are my memories of group therapy. People would get upset, accusatory. People would leave the room and spend several hours in a 'safe' environment. But at least there was no danger of suicide.
I feel, I really feel that blocks can be dangerous to the person being blocked.
I feel that we dissimulate for a reason: to keep ourselves alive. Becoming callous serves the same purpose. We manipulate the environment via technology. We are even better at manipulating others, and sometimes we manipulate ourselves.
I think that Larry is a stronger, more compassionate person than I am. I will walk away from others when they are in need. None of these things will ever get me blocked, so callousness and dissimulation are clearly adaptive behaviors.
There's something about the way my sympathetic nervous system has been activated as I've made myself read this thread through. It is causing a knot in the pit of my stomach, and a constant, dull pain in my chest.
-z
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URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20060102/msgs/595946.html