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Originally Posted by mymorgy
how can we feel useful? do we have such high standards for ourselves that if we are not climbing mt everest we are total failures? How can we feel good about ourselves without harming ourselves in the process? Is it being bipolar?
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Dear Bobby,
We are encultered to be useful.
Our society expects us to productive, and, if not useful, at least busy.
Maybe in other cultures people are not part of the industrial machine. I imagine an Eastern culture where people are encouraged to just
be -- of course I don't know if such a place exists.
My goal in life is to stay a live.
Then I have a few sub goals of course like "staying alive with some grace."
My feeling is that the mentally ill face extra challenges to get through the day.
I have already achieved a lot today.
My first tdoc felt that it was one of the goals of the therapy he did to get his patients to a place where they could have good functioning relationships with other people. I wonder if he changed / dropped that as he got more experience.
M.