(November 13, 2017 at 2:11 pm)MysticKnight Wrote:(November 13, 2017 at 1:55 pm)Shell B Wrote: I'm 100% positive that having a mental illness does not mean that you have a "miserable personal life." I have exactly the personal life I want. Sure, I'd love to have fewer panic attacks, but that doesn't affect my personal life.
You're going to fall off that limb. Depression doesn't make someone permanently unhappy.
Recovery could actually be fun and make you appreciate all sorts of things people take for granted at a much higher level. If we are cursed with curses, it is only to come out with higher blessings when we persevere and resolve ourselves.
I may have the jack of all curses but I have jack of all blessings as well and blessings that only came as a result of the curses I had to endure and still enduring.
Thank you ShellB for sticking up for the mentally ill.
I don't think you buy claims of Voodoo dolls do you? I don't.
There are no such thing as "curses". That is simply the same thing as "Karma". The magical thinking that if someone does bad, they will "get what is coming to them". If that were the case Stalin and Po Pot would have been stopped long before they committed Genocide on their own populations.
In reality when we survive harm from others, our emotions can lead to concepts of revenge. There is nothing magic about our species behaviors. Revenge isn't an act of containment, or justice. Revenge is what the fear of being cursed or cursing others in the desire to get even stems from. Revenge is a very destructive, even though natural, still a very destructive human desire which when acted upon simply perpetuates violence between societies and even individuals.
You are not cursed or blessed. You do however, HAVE the potential to if you chose, to scrap magical thinking, and accept reality. I think if you do, you will find out that a superstition free world is much easier to live in and more mentally healthy.
