[Buddha-l] Personality disorders and anatta

[Erik Hoogcarspel]

To mention names and horses: Stephen Fry, a very creative and funny guy, 
suffers from bipolarity, but he doesn't want to take medication, because 
the medication would impair him to do his work as a director and 
comedian. He has made a documentary about bipolarity however and showes 
there that this very medication offers for some people the only hope to 
live an acceptable life. I personally knew a young woman who became as 
mad as a doornail, phoning me up in the middle of the night ordering me 
to get the army troups from her doorstep. The police had to come to take 
her to a hospital. I hope they didn't just proscribe her to do more 
Chenrezig sadhana's.

erik

Op 26-11-2010 10:56, Stefan Detrez schreef:
> Yes, Dante seems to represent things as if it were all so simple. I don't
> think anyone can just choose to get cured. It takes the recognition that one
> exhibits problematic behaviour, the will to get a cure and the stamina to
> sit through that cure. That is not something that one chooses overnight,
> since in a sense one admits defeat, personally and socially, and knowing
> going into therapy will take many years of healing and money, some people
> rather stay in their situation. They rather bear lingering, yet bearable
> pain, than relatively shorttermed, but big pain.
>
> 2010/11/26 Erik Hoogcarspel<jehms at xs4all.nl>
>
>> Op 26-11-10 04:40, Dante Rosati schreef:
>>> i don't think most psychopaths want to be cured. if they did, they
>>> wouldn't be psychopaths, n'est pas?
>>>
>> I'm very surprised by the the simplemindedness of Dante here. There are
>> some 'disorders' that were invented in the eighties, most of them in the
>> US, just to stimulate the sales of valium and later prozac. Those can be
>> cured with compassion or knitting shawls or harvesting the Celestine
>> energies. A real psychopatholgy like bipolarity, MPS, or schizophrenia
>> is uncurable by meditation or rituals, simply because the patient has
>> lost control. It's like you 're in a care where the steering wheel has
>> broken and the breaks don't work and some says that everything will be
>> OK if you keep to the right side of the road and heed the traffic lights.
>>
>> erik
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