This won’t be a long post, it’s just something for you all to think about and comment on. This is a wise take from Rush on our over-diagnosed culture.
“The baby boom generation and their offspring have had life so easy compared to their grandparents and parents. I mean, there’s no comparison, and as a result, we have had to invent our stresses. We have had to invent our own problems, our psychological disorders, syndromes and what have you, in order to convince ourselves that our lives have been challenging and difficult.”
-Rush Limbaugh
What an interesting nature we all have, huh? When life is hard, we bathe ourselves in self-pity because, of course, life is just too hard. When life is easy, we try to pretend our life is hard, so we can still have something to have self-pity over.
What are your thoughts?
Caleb
February 25, 2007 at 8:56 pm
Everyone needs a metanarrative to their life–a story in which to take part. A disorder is a very solid metanarrative to create. After all, it is a very personal battle that is in your power to win or lose, and it is “scientific,” thus securing its validity and acceptance by the rest of society.
An alternate (or complimentary, depending on how you look at it) explanation is that a disorder allows one a great deal of moral leeway. After all, if you are afflicted by something beyond your control, you have something to blame for your inadequacy. The condemning power of conscience is turned not on yourself, but on your disorder.
Neither sounds satisfying to me.
March 6, 2007 at 3:30 pm
If a person doesn’t settle too far into the anxiety pills, they might just find the real problem, their SINdrone.