disorders, etc

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[impressive]

... just bored and stuck for the moment.
Thanks

That's BDSM (BoreD and Stuck for the Moment) Syndrome ... and you've got it.

~ Dr. Imp

(That'll be $200.)

 

[maggot420]

That's BDSM (BoreD and Stuck for the Moment) Syndrome ... and you've got it.

~ Dr. Imp

(That'll be $200.)

youre more expensive than i thought

 

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[TxRad]

It all comes down to the fact that, If you think you're crazy, then you're not, but if you don't think you're crazy then you are.......

Simple enough to me.... I've been crazy all my life... it keeps me from going insane....

That and shock treatments....

 

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[minsue]

So even if you wonder if you might be then you probably aren't?

That's a question that's always haunted me....Am I not crazy because I think I am so therefore I can't be because a crazy person wouldn't know or am I so fucking insane that even I can see it?

 

[SeaCat]

I know that I can't be crazy because I think I'm crazy, but knowing that means either my thoughts on my being crazy, or my knowledge of my not being crazy are wrong. Which one is wrong? (I don't rely on the views of my co-workers. They say I'm crazy, but they think they aren't crazy which means they are crazy and can't be trusted.)

Cat

What the hell just agree with me and say I'm crazy and loving it.

(I don't suffer from insanity. I'm enjoying every minute of it.)

 

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[joeys-game]

Not much cause for alarm here so far.
I feel in good company and no one here seems crazy, not much anyway. Or else... or else...
$200? Dr. Imp?

Hey, don't worry about it, your just obsessing!

 

[Guest]

When?

 

[impressive]

Not much cause for alarm here so far.
I feel in good company and no one here seems crazy, not much anyway. Or else... or else...
$200? Dr. Imp?

Labels are only useful for: (a) medical treatment; or (b) segregation. Unless you want one or the other, don't use them.

 

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[impressive]

This is why you're you. That was beautiful.
Another $200?

Of course.

 

[~hellbaby~]

It all comes down to the fact that, If you think you're crazy, then you're not, but if you don't think you're crazy then you are.......

Simple enough to me.... I've been crazy all my life... it keeps me from going insane....

That and shock treatments....

two of my favorite quotes

There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness. [Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)



For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
Author: Jean Dubuffet
Source: No

 

[dr_mabeuse]

We have writers here who are diagnosed dyslexics. We have writers here who suffer from ADD ( or ADHD or whatever they call it these days)

If someone can be dyslexic and not read as others do, it seems to me entirely possible that there might be other disorders that prevent one from writing as others do as well. Perhaps you wouldn't be able to use commas correctly, say, or have no idea of when to start a new paragraph. Maybe you'd be blind to run-on sentences, or get lost in nested parentheticals. Maybe you'd have a kind of ADD and would never be able to stay on topic, but always keep wandering off. I've certainly read stories like that here.

I just saw a story where I thought the writer had a real pathology in finding a verb tense and sticking with it. She seemed to be blind to the difference in tenses. She just didn't notice them. I can't believe that a normal writer would say things like "I stood up and take off my shirt," and almost every single sentence was like that. Bad writing or pathology?

What happens when a dyslexic proof-reads his or her story? Or when someone with ADD edits and checks their work for continuity? It can't be good.

There's only reason for diagnosing anyone with anything, and that's in order to treat the condition. If these difficulties in writing can be treated, then I think it makes sense to see them as disorders and not just as an inability to write.

 

[carsonshepherd]

I just saw a story where I thought the writer had a real pathology in finding a verb tense and sticking with it. She seemed to be blind to the difference in tenses. She just didn't notice them. I can't believe that a normal writer would say things like "I stood up and take off my shirt," and almost every single sentence was like that. Bad writing or pathology?

non-native english speaker?

 

[Pure]

Classic question

This leads to the crucial question, Is one reading a literate, religious person's 'quest' story of his searching for his God, or just the dyslexic's rendering of the more common 'missing canine' situation.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

non-native english speaker?

Apparently not.

When I was new to this site, I critiqued a story in the Feedback board and lit into it pretty hard for all the glaring grammatical errors. I wasn't mean or vicious, but the story was barely literate.

Someone PM'd me and expressed their regret because the writer suffered from some fairly severe mental impairment and this person had spent months encouraging them and coaxing them along to write and post a story.

I stand by the critique. I mean, no one had told me this person was handicapped when I read the story, so I held it to the same standard as I would any submission here. But I did feel really shitty about it and I PM'd the author and tried to point out more of the good points. I gave up critiquing for months after that too.

 

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[Kassiana]

Some "insanity" is behavior that, in moderation, is not "insane" at all. Take the feeling that all of us get sometimes, the need to check the alarm clock to make sure we've set it. We know we did. We remember it. We just get that feeling that no, we really haven't. Then we check and find we have, indeed set the alarm and it was on and everything, so we move on to the butt sex.

It's only a problem if you get that feeling over and over and over in a short period of time and keep checking over and over again. Then it's obsessive-compulsive disorder. But yes, some "insanities" are just a matter of degree. Particularly the anxiety-based ones, which usually have some basis in reality. Post-traumatic stress disorder is based in real-life trauma and is a sane mind's response to an insane situation. I experienced some PTSD after I watched my ex-roommate beat his wife in front of me. (And I got a few resurgences, particularly after the ass called me and tried to extort some money from me.) It was based in real danger and real trauma, but my paranoia a few days later in the student union, which caused me to constantly check to make sure my ex-roomie wasn't coming after me, was not rational.

 

[minsue]

Well, then what do you have if you can't get yourself out of the maze of trying to determine if you 'have' anything at all, and you know that the time could have been spent writing something, or improving on something already written? Would this be an obsessive something? Or is it just old-fashioned procrastination? Or is it something inside trying to communicate that you could write better if certain obstacles were recognized and dealt with...?

Obsession and procrastination oft go hand in hand.

 

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