Ted wrote:Eshly wrote:Ted wrote:Eshly wrote:Did you like the "Daily Mail" style headline?
Its quite accurate
No, I don't like it. And I don't agree. Please keep this rubbish confined to non-magic-related forums/sub-forums.
It was self-depricating humor, I was just trying to liven up the post a bit
Please don't.
Well Ted's a charming fella, ain't he. I know when Eshly's being a prat, and to be frank it really p*sses me off when people jump on him for stuff they woulnd't others. And for you're information, it is a scientifically observed fact that journalists don't have enough human dna to classify as human, and they are the very c*ck suckers of satan who perpetuate hatred, intolerence and illogical, unreasoned, completley f*cking delusional political beliefs, who I would have the pleasure of doing paper cuts on their eyeballs for being so irresponsible with the huge amount power they have.
On that point, perhaps this has been said before, but the fact is we do need to be more tolerant to eshly than others, not less. In my eyes, there is no greater crime than a supposedly rational person rejecting someone because they are behaving erratically- rejection will only evidence an unhealthy perception of self worth. As the rational ones we need to acknowledge that.
Now.. I'm not sure if you mean you need help learning how to write a script or what to say in it or both.. Perhaps you need to talk to Maeve about the general stress of finding work. I had to get a work experience placement, and the rejection, false-hope and let downs is frustrating even for the Taoist monks among us.
*ESSAY WARNING*
Before I shut up, I have a few observations on mental health. Pretty much most of my family have some form of mental 'ill-ness'. But I worked out what MOST, not all, but most, of it was attributable to. First of all, there was much comfort to be found in having a label. Perhaps its the result of a label somehow explaining the strange things you feel and act, but aside from empirically, I cannot quantify it any further. But there we have the immediate problem: the label itself. Labels are such dangerous things if handeled incorrectly- they have plagued much reasoning just by existing sometimes. The idea is 'labeling theory' whereby a person subject to a label, begins to adhere to the definition of the label- it is a self-fullfilling profecy. However, at the very heart of labeling theory, is the identification with the label. This can be done externally, things said by those around you and internally, where I find it is initiated by a chain of auto-suggestion, whereby the observer noticies a corresponding characteristic to the said label, and this affirms the belief that they deserve such and such a label and the belief results in confirmation bias. This seeks out evidence discriminativley to evidence the belief and does so. Let me give an example- someone tells you that you are worthless and pathetic all day long. It is not a rational argument, but it begins to get at you. You catch yourself doing something and you analyse yourself 'Am I pathetic? Why else would I be called pathetic? Look at me doing x, y, z.. Wow.. I must be pathetic' + *confirmation bais* = belief that I am pathetic. Subsequently, I would act on my new self perception and because I lose for example my self worth I would then begin to genuinley exhibit signs of being pathetic and thus qualify to earn that now deserved label of being pathetic. So then- this is my theory on mental health, a huge amount of it is self suggestion. Perhaps it is utter nonsense.. but I think this is an important point. Another observation is that people with problems (as I said earlier) who want to understand why they feel certain ways, do certain things or why people respond to them in certain ways, naturally seek an explanation. Again I am not sure why, but explanations are always comforting. I think this is why psychoanalysis can work even if the analysis is incorrect, because new explanations have been found and those new explanations no longer require certain behaviour- weather it reconciles the ego and id and ultra-ego, is debatable (After all, psychoanalysis' theraputic benefits are simply in undersatinding the aetology of the 'illness'). All I am saying, is that do not seek refuge under a label. They might offer ephemeral solace, but they generally do more harm than good, unless the label demands positive qualities. I am not saying that mental illness does not exist, but I am saying a lot of it is essentially placebo in a way- that's a good way to look at it- if someone is cured by a placebo, that does not mean the cure is not real- similarly, if someone is depressed because of sef-suggestion, that does not make their depression invalid. I am sure some people think I am talking rubbish, but my conclusions are my own experience. I had horrible manic-depression, but the very simple identificaiton of myself with that label was enough to start off months and months of unforgiving bouts of suicidal deppression and running to try and find a burger king at 2 in the morning. I am not proud of it (thats why the only people reading that are those who could be bothered with my tedium) but I got over it by simply breaking the label and realising it was illusiory. I honestley reccomend you do something you believe your labels permit you from doing, just to prove you can. For me, it was tidying my room whilst being in the cabbage state of deppression where blinking is an unwelcome chore- I realised everything I have just said as I did it, and that things are only the way you perceive them- the generalisations and labels you make. It was a massive epiphany about deppression, labels, life, death, love, ego and reality and since then I have not been overly manic, depressed or lobotocised. I still get ups and downs- that's life, but I made the decision myself. The first step is to realise that the choice is in your hands, not your labels. I realise I have written an essay, but I hope that even if one person trawls through it and it helps them I have achieved my aim. It has been good to write it and get it all down on cyber paper.
*essay over*
''To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in another's.'' Dostoevsky's Razumihin.
I should have put a bigger warning for people with faint hearts and eye problems 
