Posted by Else on July 24, 2001, at 6:01:59
In reply to Re: Dopamine function in Social Phobia » Else, posted by jojo on July 23, 2001, at 22:22:30
I meant me, and insane is more a figure of speech here although a strange one. My grip on reality is probably adequate. I just find it insane to look at a menu for thirty minute before you make-up your mind like I sometimes do (and then let someone else decide). But I find usually it's because I'm depressed and neither choices are particullarly appealling. Decision-making is harder when both choices are negative. It's a good quotation though, I agree with you. But then, I've just spent the last seven years trying to decide whether I should move out of my appartment.
I think the expiry date must have ran out some time ago.> > Good advice but sometimes hard to follow when you're insane.
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> > > After seeing the movie "Ghost Dog" (which is to be taken seriously, not merely an action movie), I bought the book "Hagakure, The Book of the Samurai", which is the philosophical basis of the film. I find that a quotation from it often helps me: 'If discrimination is long, it will spoil'... 'One should make his decision within the space of seven breaths'. Obviously it doesn't matter a hell of a lot if you put one or two creams in your coffee. It is the Big decisions that should be made in seven breaths. You may find that the results are just as satisfactory, and the pain a lot less.
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> When you're insane? It's hard to follow anytime,
> but realizing that deliberating more doesn't give
> one any better chance of success is one of the reasons it's
> considered 'the way of the warrior'.
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> I don't know how is effects Compulsives, but for Obsessives and Depressives, it
> gives them the "Strength to Get Up and Do What Needs To Be Done" (plagiarized from
> Garrison Keillor, re. Powder Milk Biscuits. It does help Obsessives overcome certain
> difficulties in beginning something if they realize that it is the act of starting
> that is more important than what is started. Almost intuitively, one knows that
> starting after seven breaths is better than starting, or not yet starting, after seven
> times ten thousand breaths.
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> Schizophrenics and everyone else out there, including the "normal" lurkers will have
> to decide for themselves.
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