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Re: trauma and cycles in the present » Damos

Posted by alexandra_k on January 5, 2006, at 22:11:49

In reply to Re: trauma and cycles in the present » alexandra_k, posted by Damos on January 5, 2006, at 20:59:56

> Don't you just hate those itches you can't quite scratch.

yep.

i'm starting to think... that might be the story of my life really... or at least... one fairly significant strand in the story of my life...

ever since i can remember i have been compulsively asking myself
'what is wrong with me?'
'what is wrong with me?'
the answer
'nothing is wrong with you'
isn't sufficient
because...
i hurt
sometimes
i hurt a lot

but i guess... i've been looking for an answer...

and i guess...

in searching for an answer...

well... i'm thinking that has made me vulnerable to people telling me (in an authorative tone)
'*this* is what is wrong with you'
and there was a story
always a story
a story of the day
week
month
year

and i'm thinking about the notion that there is a problem...
there is something wrong...

and symptoms are manifestations of the underlying problem

and some people say the trouble with behaviourism
or with treatments that focus on treating the symptoms
is that they do not address the underlying problem
and that a consequence of that is that...
new symptoms will manifest

and i'm thinking there may be some truth to that...

with respect to symptoms
that they vary
along with the story of the day
week
month
year
century

so the symptoms are constrained by social factors

but really
the problem
is that sometimes it hurts a lot

sometimes it hurts a lot

and there it is.

and the stories we tell...
ourselves...
other people...

in order to get a little help...

f*cking system that makes people worse in order to make them better
in order to have a justification for treating them at all

and the consequence of tightening up the DSM criteria

is only going to be an increase in amnesia

for f*ck sake...

:-(

but of course i'm okay really.

i'm just trying to figure whether appreciating this is the cure or not

(depends on whether mps is a social construction in the second or third sense you see)

but even if you appreciate that
even if you do

will that help with the pain???????

methinks not.

i dunno.

((((Damos))))

 

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