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thejunipertree3 things which scare me: zombies, dolls, the dark.
3 things which I don't understand: the stock market, reality television, quantum physics
3 things I'd like to learn: Latin, pocket picking, how to play the accordion
3 things I am wearing right now: my Sinner/Saint necklace, black velvet jeans, glittery skull and crossbone socks
3 things on my desk: my cigarettes, my sacred heart Zippo, a cherry pie the size of a half dollar made from Sculptey clay
3 things I want to do before I die: be ridden by a lwa, own a boat, own my own funeral home
3 good things about my personality: quick wit, empathic, can tell the best stories
3 bad things about my personality: short tempered, lazy, forgetful
3 parts of my heritage: Cherokee, German, French
3 things I like about my body: my eyes, my lips, the small of my back
3 things I don't like about my body: height, weight, hands
3 things most people don't know about me: I did two and a half years in colour guard during high school, I'm a diagnosed schizophrenic, I can turn my right leg completely around
3 things I say the most: 'hee!', 'Jesus fuck!', 'And I was like...'
3 places I want to go: Jerusalem, New Orleans (again), Paris
3 names that I go by: Tara, Tara-Love, magdalene
3 screen names I use or have used: littleflappybat, batsinthebelfrey, dormouse
3 things which I don't understand: the stock market, reality television, quantum physics
3 things I'd like to learn: Latin, pocket picking, how to play the accordion
3 things I am wearing right now: my Sinner/Saint necklace, black velvet jeans, glittery skull and crossbone socks
3 things on my desk: my cigarettes, my sacred heart Zippo, a cherry pie the size of a half dollar made from Sculptey clay
3 things I want to do before I die: be ridden by a lwa, own a boat, own my own funeral home
3 good things about my personality: quick wit, empathic, can tell the best stories
3 bad things about my personality: short tempered, lazy, forgetful
3 parts of my heritage: Cherokee, German, French
3 things I like about my body: my eyes, my lips, the small of my back
3 things I don't like about my body: height, weight, hands
3 things most people don't know about me: I did two and a half years in colour guard during high school, I'm a diagnosed schizophrenic, I can turn my right leg completely around
3 things I say the most: 'hee!', 'Jesus fuck!', 'And I was like...'
3 places I want to go: Jerusalem, New Orleans (again), Paris
3 names that I go by: Tara, Tara-Love, magdalene
3 screen names I use or have used: littleflappybat, batsinthebelfrey, dormouse
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Re: personal
Date: 2003-11-27 11:40 pm (UTC)I don't believe this. I don't believe that mental illness is necessarily abnormal, to begin with. It's just a case of brain wires being crossed or chemical imbalances. Another curveball thrown at us from Nature. Neither normal or abnormal, it just is.
I think that many people are misdiagnosed because of the willingless to throw labels around to excuse behaviour, especially when there's nothing "wrong" with them at all, and thusly they're frequently overmedicated.
Too many people are all too willing to accept the explanation of something like depression, when they're actually just going through a bad streak in their lives. Too many parents would rather label their children as having ADHD, when in actuality it's more of a case of problematic parenting skills.
(of course, this isn't to say that there aren't cases of actual depression and actual ADHD and whathaveyou. I just think there are far less of them then people have come to believe.)