[Buddha-l] Personality disorders and anatta

[Dante Rosati]

ive seen people who realized they are causing themselves and others
unnecessary pain, and proactively do something about it, these are the
ones who generally find some peace. There are others who just want
someone else to "fix" them, give them a pill, etc. and then there are
those for whom their "illness" is their most precious possession,
jealously guarded and cultivated. go figure.

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Stefan Detrez <stefan.detrez at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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