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RE: Therapy and the Lifestyle - 11/27/2005 1:59:32 PM

Sensualips

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Now if you are legitimately mental that's one thing but if they try to make you believe you are mental that's another.

How would you know? I mean, if you are LEGITIMATELY mental you wouldn't really have the capacity to make that judgment for yourself. Right?

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RE: Therapy and the Lifestyle - 11/27/2005 2:17:22 PM

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Point well taken Sen.

Though I think it is safe to say that when things are explained by a doctor, family, and friends to you you can figure out if you are mentally ill or not. If I am severely depressed for no reason, odds are I have a chemical imbalance. If I go periods of time where you can't remember what happened and I wake up strapped to a bed in the loony bin and my Dr. and family tell me I have split personality disorder...to me it's a pretty fair bet I'm crazy and in need of some medication. If I enjoy going out and forcing people to do things they really don't want to do I'm sure there is something in the medical books I am. If for whatever reason you are incapable that is one thing, but there are generally hint's if you are willing to accept them unless you are completely gone and to the point you need hospitalization and can't hardly even remember who the heck you are.

But if I am a libertarian that leans to the conservative side, that doesn't make me a mental case it just makes me me. If I like guns, that doesn't mean I am violent or planning a massacre, it just means I like gun's and enjoy shooting them. If I am a homebody and dislikes clubs, again doesn't make me crazy it just means I am someone who prefers to live a more quiet life. If I enjoy giving red asses (among other things) to perfectly willing consenting adult women, then hey that might make me a bit of a sadist but not a nut job.

Situations vary but the above paragraph basically describes the main things the therapist I walked out on attempted to make me believe. Like I say a therapist doesn't have to share your views or agree with them. Just has to be friendly to them and willing to accept there are different people in this world and that "normal" is a pretty darn big bowl of soup and not one thing that fits her (or his...for some reason I have noticed roe female therapists though) mold of "normal" and her's alone.

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RE: Therapy and the Lifestyle - 12/19/2005 2:41:50 AM

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Tammy I did stop seeing that therapist. She had me so upset one time I was screaming at her, litteraly, And it wasn't cause we was working on issues either, it was because she kept tryin to force me to talk about painfull things that I didn't want to aproach yet with her not even knowing her for a month yet.

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