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Most people seem to do it wrong, though.
The internet is power. With great power comes great dumb.
Most people seem to do it wrong, though.
The internet is power. With great power comes great dumb.
with great dumb comes 15 kids and poverty
Good! What was the operation?
The internet is power. With great power comes great dumb.
Are you using the term diagnosis strictly in the medical sense, or do you just mean you notice people labelling themeselves, more?
I ask mainly because introversion's not a mental illness in the sense of an unhealthy psychiatric condition, it's just a pattern of behavior and understanding of what energizes an individual.
I tend not to take people literally on things like this, and play it by ear/observe. We're all capable of stumbling into lexical pitfalls from time to time.
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do you not feel... wolfie....
that in your haste to whitewash a generation, you have become what you hate?
i don't know your age, but i know many intelligent, bright young adults (i'm assuming you're speaking of young adults). you're probably just abnormally cynical about the human condition for your age.
If you're just referring to the opening post (I haven't read the others she might have written), how is she supposed to ask the question? It's not she called them all "narcissists", she just said people are using self-diagnostic terms as if they are actual diagnoses, where in reality people are just mislabeling themselves.
There's actually some harm in this, I think, in terms of people labeling themselves in categories, in terms of having bad tendencies they feel they can't fix because they are "OCD" or "narcissists" or whatever elese, and in terms of treating people with serious, true forms of those syndromes with respect rather than just sloughing them off.
(For example, being "clinically depressed" is not just "being sad," so when people mislabel their own sad periods as actual depression, then they tend to expect people who are clinically depressed to "just get over it" and not understand how much more SEVERE a REAL diagnosis is.)
I don't know your age, but I think I'm probably a lot older than you, and I found her question legitimate rather than cynical.
I think the Internet does have something to do with it -- basically a bunch of knowledge without the real-life context to understand what particular problems actually LOOK like in real life, coupled with people's desires to label themselves and their personality/characteristics in shorthand for easy summarization.
I'm inclined to believe this, but I don't have anything to back it up. I'd be pretty damn certain that people have referred to themselves as alcoholics, insomniacs, or poor throughout history, though.i just feel like it's a question that could have been repeated throughout all of history, albeit in differing context.
If they mean it in jest, fine.
If they really have the condition, fine.
If they take some damn responsibility for their condition (or 'condition') and refuse to use it as an excuse--or, hell, even embrace it or turn it into a strength--great.
I'm inclined to believe this, but I don't have anything to back it up. I'd be pretty damn certain that people have referred to themselves as alcoholics, insomniacs, or poor throughout history, though.
I'd love to learn more about self-loathing through the ages
I think the Internet does have something to do with it -- basically a bunch of knowledge without the real-life context to understand what particular problems actually LOOK like in real life, coupled with people's desires to label themselves and their personality/characteristics in shorthand for easy summarization.