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A comfortable & easy life isn't ideal, I'm very fortunate to have touched life's extremes and live to tell about it, I don't want pity. This world is a gymnasium for the soul. We aren't here to flounder and laze around like cattle in mindless bliss. I've met countless adults who have had it easy and are nothing more than unconscious reaction automata, finding definition in their weaknesses and handicaps. I can say from firsthand experience that adversity fans the inner flame, but it should not be clung to for identity.
Psychology is a science vaguely applied to something that does not obey any rules or laws. Look at those resilient few that found their true invulnerability in concentration camps. A dead person can be mapped, manipulated, and predicted by psychology, but a living one is beyond all chains (diagnosis) or probability.
A comfortable & easy life isn't ideal, I'm very fortunate to have touched life's extremes and live to tell about it, I don't want pity. This world is a gymnasium for the soul. We aren't here to flounder and laze around like cattle in mindless bliss. I've met countless adults who have had it easy and are nothing more than unconscious reaction automata, finding definition in their weaknesses and handicaps. I can say from firsthand experience that adversity fans the inner flame, but it should not be clung to for identity.
Psychology is a science vaguely applied to something that does not obey any rules or laws. Look at those resilient few that found their true invulnerability in concentration camps. A dead person can be mapped, manipulated, and predicted by psychology, but a living one is beyond all chains (diagnosis) or probability.
I haven't had an easy life. I have cptsd from years of struggle. I'm not pitying you. It's more that I know life can hurt. And that situation sounded like it hurt. Having your pain dismissed sucks. Particularly by fplk who are supposed to help. Even if a difficult life you can learn a lot from it doesn't mean you can't be sadden by pain. Or not work towards making life easier for yourself as you strive for a life of knowledge and one you can be proud of.
Life is difficult. Everything we can do to make less needless suffering for yourself and others is great. Yes difficulty can be good but sometimes it's hindering and can stop you from learning and growing. I've always said trauma didn't make me stronger but I grew despite trauma.
The reason I hugged you wasn't pity. It was more an understanding that I knew that a therapist dismissing you like that must've hurt. I'm glad you've grown despite the lack of help from them.
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That's the point in diagnosises. To help solve problems and know how to deal with them.
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It's not to chain you down but to help with understanding and help connect with other people with said issues and help each other grow. To help everything click in your mind and explain your struggles.
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My diagnosis of autism has helped me immensely figure out how to navigate my disability so much easier then if I never knew of it
I once had a therapist tell me I was fine and that it was no longer nessecary for me to see her. It was then I found out that lots of "normal" fully functioning adults walk around with swirling black holes of misery and revulsion in their chest cavities, that its evidently a staple to grown-up existence to have life's natural course rip your heart out.
Thankfully it doesn't matter how you feel, you can act and be whoever you damn well please if you set the course and build the discipline to keep your hands on the wheel through the storm.
I've never gotten the whole "horror of everyday life" routine, beyond suspecting that it's a hangover from the Romantic era (all that Sturm and Drang and no place to go.) There are indeed many awful things. And man's kinds have been learning to deal with these from the aeons whilst Gynning gaped down till pretty recently. Say until modern media and social media made an entire lifestyle of parading problems in public. Then normies discovered the dirty joys of cultivating misery as a species of exhibtionism.
