me and a lot of people i know sure do love ruining our own lives by making up rules about what we aren't allowed to do and then following them straight into a ditch
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i say this with all the love i can muster 😅 and of course many of the rules were imposed on us by others 😔
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told me recently that the proper term for this is "neurotic" which really makes a lot of sense and i gotta wonder why we mostly stopped using such a useful word
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If you’re curious on the “why” from a History of Psychology perspective, this book is a solid start
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tl;dr: families of the mentally ill got sick of Freud blaming them for everything. They formed interest groups, allied w Pharma and Bio-Psych, and got universities to suppress/fire anyone who didn’t say “the brain is just chemicals, family environment is irrelevant to disease”.
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oh boooooooooooo
I will say: the family lobby wasn’t compleeeetely crazy there. Freudians we’re going a bit overboard. —the problem, as usual, came in the decision to go TWICE AS OVERBOARD in the opposite direction
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