GENIUS FORUMS

Well, my point was specific to the difference between infatuation and genuinely felt love. Some would probably argue that no such difference exists but I think it does in that infatuation is more tenuous and whimsical; it doesn't withstand any dose of reality because it is usually entirely ideation...

Let me give you a list of things I did when I was suicidally depressed (which was really a good chunk of my life): I think a psychologist could help with that - specifically a female one in your case (in mine, needed to be male because for some reason I deal better with men) Even if you don't do any...

What if you were to view the word "love" in the sentence "I love you" in the active sense then? As in, "I am doing things to love you". Would that help you to be more direct in expressing it? Do you even want to be more direct? It seems a bit like spin. Love, to me, is...

Laird wrote: Katy, what about it would be lying? Is it that you're not confident that your actions match your words?

No, my words and actions match.
I question whether my feelings and thoughts match those though.

I usually say "uh-voo." I'm not sure why I can't say the words, but somehow replacing them with nonsense makes it easier (even though i know how they'll take it) - also like Cory I say "you too" a lot. I've occasionally wondered if it's to avoid lying.

While I am not aware of the Dalai Lama having originated any world-shaking ideas, I would be curious to find out whether he claims that it's others' moral duty to support him. Are we necessarily after world-shaking ideas? One could offer many monks in different traditions as people who spend their ...

Alas, history doesn't support this supposition. I can't think of any major figure in human history who produced something of great value while forcing others to support their indolence. Greek philosophers generally didn't make others pay for their upkeep. Buddha and Jesus and Lao Tze and Confucius ...

It sounds like you also need someone to talk to - psychologist along with psychiatrist. :)

Jamesh wrote:Sports I think the US doesn't play much

Netball - girly basketball
Australian Rules Football - aerial ping pong
Rugby League - idiot football using hands
Rugby Union - schoolboy warring
Hockey??? (not ice hockey -we don't have any)

We have field hockey?

You know, an outpatient hospitalization might help you a lot. It helped me. Mostly because someone was checking on my meds and crap every single day and yet I didn't feel trapped since I still got to see my family at night. Just seems if you're that desperate you should do something.

Why do I have the feeling I've seen this whole fight before? EI - you have to build it into the system that you still get the minimum so that your McJawb earns you over the minimum. That's pretty easily done. Incidentally, the socialist candidate, Royal, is one of the two contenders for the French p...

okok I made a bad joke and it fell flat.

Nope, nuclear bombs are one way in which I think animals are better than humans.

Well, this forum does encourage self analysis, but I'm afraid you won't find support for astrology, and the IQ/traditional definition doesn't apply at all.

Chickens don't have nuclear bombs.

He posted a screen cap of the "you've been banned" page for this forum at UHF...


http://www.lodebar.org/BanGenius.htm

So a person with schizophrenia that isn't on meds is sane, so long as they don't commit a crime? Sane is a legal term and has no medical definition. Thus unless someone is in the legal system, they are neither sane nor insane. I'm not defining mental illness. I'm defining sane which simply means th...

Yes, Scott. I disagree that anyone can be considered "insane" unless they have committed a crime as the term is a legal term and not a medical term. Additionally, I know right from wrong; thus, I am not insane. And nor is Elizabeth.

If you ignore facts in favor of your pet theories your irrational. That is as simple as that gets.

He has said as much. And I'll show you entries from my personal journal from before and after I was medicated that could prove the point, as well. But Scott, if you know the differene between right and wrong on drugs than you are sane on drugs. That's as simple as it gets. "at that moment did t...

uh... guys? Sane isn't a medical term, it's a legal term that means "knew right from wrong"

NFBB? Sword of Honor? Those uber-idiots came to mind immediately... No, I'm not massochistic enough to try that. Someone in Atlanta on an LJ community that is supposed to be for my friends to plan to get together and such. Not that it ever gets used for that... These are actually people I see in pe...

Nat got caught up in anger that was directed elsewhere. I was an ass to him because I was being very closely censored in another debate where people were discussing the mental health issue more in depth and suggesting we involuntarily commit all mental patients regardless of how their doctors think ...

Nat, you read Bataille? I think he sorta supports you but from a different angle than Hegel, so you might be interested. But I'm still completely lost in this class so I'm not overly comfortable trying to explain beyond that we have to 'get rid of' energy and putting it places where it doesn't creat...

Katy, Can you explain the imaginary girlfriend and brother, the paranoid ideation, the martyr complex, and the other delusions in terms of another diagnosis which better fits the evidence? Yes, I can. The guy obviously has problems with girls since he got accused of stalking two of them. May be gay...