Squeakers -> RE: Yeah right (3/29/2007 6:37:17 PM)
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ORIGINAL: tricia When I was young and didn't want to go to school, I would lie and tell mom I had a stomach ache/headache, toothache. Perhaps it was the guilt or just my over thinking it - but an hour later I actually had whatever ailment I made up on that particular day. Maybe that is the case in some of the examples you mention. They want it so badly they convince themselves it's the truth in order to validate themselves. I see it all the time in the CM profiles. I might smile and shake my head - but I don't feel the need to call people out on it. Usually my profile is limited to saying that i'm content and not seeking. Even on the days I'm not so content - I don't change it. Perhaps the real time friends I have here look at it thinking "yeah right." On a really bad day - you'll find it blank. (If I've learned nothing else here, I have learned that sometimes things are better left unsaid.) I really liked this response. There is a real point in what you said about 'faking' an illness and it appears. Can the mind make something that is purely fantasy a reality? Mentally can a person want something so badly that it becomes real for them, so real that they will defend it? I really think it is possible that mentally we can trick ourselves in distorting the actual truth even when it is pointed out to us. The only concrete example that comes to mind, is that of an anorexic, who really sees herself as being fat. The scale can prove it otherwise, people can tell her she is not fat, but she still believes and actually sees herself as being fat. I for one have personally said to others who have not an ounce of body fat but are dieting because they 'are fat', "Yeah right." So I can understand a person so wanting something that it becomes real for them. And really that was the point of my post, not to pass judgement, not to single anyone out, not that I personally give a crap what others do other than coming to a point of understanding. I appreciated all the posts.
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