The Way-Back Machine
Jan. 26th, 2012 04:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mlerulesWay back when, one Winter quarter (so 'twas grey & cold out quite a bit) at UC Santa Cruz in the early 1980s, a mess of folks in the dorms took AbPsych and/or Psych of Death & Dying. (I did NOT, but was surrounded by those who did.) Perhaps inevitably, lotsa people started becoming convinced - or at least talking/worrying lots 'bout the possibility - that they were suffering from various psych symptoms, conditions, abnormalities, &c., often including depression.
Heh. Now, as I'm reading things 'bout various brain functions, experiments, problems, and issues, I find myself starting to do the same thing: worrying 'bout whether I'm suffering from what I'm reading about, as well as wondering what it all means to me. Narcissism run rampant? Or something else?
Finding/realizing that my feelings of late are far more muted than they "should be," or, rather, than they have been and what I consider my "normal." My reactions to things feel dulled, different (less) from what I'd expect from past experience. Dunno what's up w/this, although I have some ideas. Dunno what to DO 'bout it, exactly, although I suspect that worrying (overly much, certainly) isn't particularly useful or healthy.
Heh. Now, as I'm reading things 'bout various brain functions, experiments, problems, and issues, I find myself starting to do the same thing: worrying 'bout whether I'm suffering from what I'm reading about, as well as wondering what it all means to me. Narcissism run rampant? Or something else?
Finding/realizing that my feelings of late are far more muted than they "should be," or, rather, than they have been and what I consider my "normal." My reactions to things feel dulled, different (less) from what I'd expect from past experience. Dunno what's up w/this, although I have some ideas. Dunno what to DO 'bout it, exactly, although I suspect that worrying (overly much, certainly) isn't particularly useful or healthy.
