Re:Why Anti-Authoritarians Are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill (2012)
by ddingus on Friday March 25, 2016 @11:17PM
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I have a very strong memory from that time.
My sense of "me" was forming, and I was aware it was incomplete, and I didn't understand it. I had many authority problems, having rejected most of the school.
This went on for long enough, they eventually were wanting to intervene with drugs and a psychologist. Age 11 ish...
This, being the late 70s, scared me, and I remember a cold resolve to resist the entirety of it, for fear of losing that self before I even had a chance to understand and grow strong.
It did not go well. I did manage to convince the shrink the drugs were a non starter. Friends who went down that path changed. I could see it.
Never have quite got past that basic wrong.
Interestingly, the issues went away as soon as I managed to get some autonomy.
My sense of "me" was forming, and I was aware it was incomplete, and I didn't understand it. I had many authority problems, having rejected most of the school.
This went on for long enough, they eventually were wanting to intervene with drugs and a psychologist. Age 11 ish...
This, being the late 70s, scared me, and I remember a cold resolve to resist the entirety of it, for fear of losing that self before I even had a chance to understand and grow strong.
It did not go well. I did manage to convince the shrink the drugs were a non starter. Friends who went down that path changed. I could see it.
Never have quite got past that basic wrong.
Interestingly, the issues went away as soon as I managed to get some autonomy.