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TheCoach16

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nah - you're long-winded for the sake of it - the coach - a world of experience he insists on sharing
Isn't that what we do here? Share knowledge, experience, opinion? Relevant to the discussions. One liners or "war and peace"...

Did you have an issue with the content or just the length of the post? Because I've seen plenty of post as long, and much longer. I must have missed where you set them straight...

But you're the kingpin around here, so if you'd prefer I stick to a word limit, let me know what it is and I'll do my best not to defy you...
 

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Isn't that what we do here? Share knowledge, experience, opinion? Relevant to the discussions. One liners or "war and peace"...

Did you have an issue with the content or just the length of the post? Because I've seen plenty of post as long, and much longer. I must have missed where you set them straight...

But you're the kingpin around here, so if you'd prefer I stick to a word limit, let me know what it is and I'll do my best not to defy you...
Just keep writing. This isn't Twitter......thank goodness :)

Worst thing one can do is to be afraid to express opinion.... Just in case they may be wrong.
Who cares if you have the ability to think on your own and reason in debate.
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Isn't that what we do here? Share knowledge, experience, opinion? Relevant to the discussions. One liners or "war and peace"...

Did you have an issue with the content or just the length of the post? Because I've seen plenty of post as long, and much longer. I must have missed where you set them straight...

But you're the kingpin around here, so if you'd prefer I stick to a word limit, let me know what it is and I'll do my best not to defy you...
oh puhlease
 

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Stuffed if I know. Not logged in for years and email I registered it with no longer exists.
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Isn't that what we do here? Share knowledge, experience, opinion? Relevant to the discussions. One liners or "war and peace"...

Did you have an issue with the content or just the length of the post? Because I've seen plenty of post as long, and much longer. I must have missed where you set them straight...

But you're the kingpin around here, so if you'd prefer I stick to a word limit, let me know what it is and I'll do my best not to defy you...
Um NO!
 

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That's not all that ridiculous, or overly cynical. In fact it would make a lot of sense. It would be similar to a caregiver suffering from Munchausen by Proxy. But instead of hurting others for attention and/or sympathy, it's done to oneself. That, however, wouldn't make it any less serious or tragic. Regardless of the motive, the thought process that eventuates in self harm, for whatever reason, is torturous...

We need to remember that the terms "mental illness" or "mental health" cover an extremely broad spectrum...

One individual is "socially awkward", another needs to wash their hands twenty times a day, and another hears voices telling them to kill their family...

They all fall under the umbrella of mental illness.
And that's only a small section of the spectrum. There are cases that span further to each edge of it.

It's not like being pregnant, where you either are or you're not. Mental health isn't definitive. Where and when, does a human behaviour go from a slight variation to a psychological issue? Some psychological conditions afford people extraordinary talents or abilities, whilst they can't perform the simplest of tasks, like tying their shoelaces. So when does the condition go from being an advantage to a disadvantage? And who decides?

Is sadness the same as depression? Is a bad temper, psychotic behaviour? When does a fear become a phobia? When does lethargy become CFS? Is your conscience merely a mild form of schizophrenia? We still don't know with any certainty. Don't forget, Homosexuality was once considered a "curable" mental condition. We're always learning...

So whatever has happened to James, whatever people think of him. He's arrived at a difficult and painful destination, regardless of the journey that got him there...
Does narcissism fall under the mental illness umbrella?
 
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Stuffed if I know. Not logged in for years and email I registered it with no longer exists.
Just trying right now to see if another way to get a new password.
lucky you hate twitter cause there's no way to logging to that account without remembering the password. My dad did same thing on PlayStation. lol
 

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lucky you hate twitter cause there's no way to logging to that account without remembering the password. My dad did same thing on PlayStation. lol
ha ha. They sent me a Twitter case number from support. So I am sure they got a team of people working on it for me to solve the problem.. ha ha, yeah right. Reckon I will get a series of emails from them and still not get anywhere.
 
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does this long-winded thought piece have a point? why do people feel the need to write war & peace in order to have an opinion?
I think sometimes we want our information quick and on the fly while other times we want to analyse and digest. I ignore the second when my attention span is not there. I appreciate those that go to the effort though and saw plenty of points in there relevant to myself.
 

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All of us have mental disorders relative to whatever may be deemed to be the 'standard'

We don't even know what the standard is, yet? Maybe the standard isn't such a great starting point to begin with.
If you think of it as a normal band of behaviour with overlapping traits, rather than some arbitrary trigger point, it'll probably make more sense.

Disorder categorisations, particularly cognitive ones, are still very much social constructs though, yes.
 
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