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Sociology > Depression |
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"alvintchase" |
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27 Jan 2006 03:12:43 PM |
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mood changes |
It's funny how quickly moods can change... I guess partly when you
are alone, and fairly isolated, it's easy to get caught up in your own
world... I guess we're all just sharing parts of ourselves... sometimes
I think of ASD as a journal, a place to work through issues, thoughts,
feelings, ideas... it makes me sad sometimes that there are conflicts,
but it's unavoidable, I think... when you have a diverse group of
people with different personalities, temperaments,experiances, moods,
backrounds etc... interacting, there is bound to be some tension at
times... interacting can be a postive, important thing, though, both on
the internet and in real life. It can make you less isolated, and help
you with social skills... it's so easy, in certain situations to think
that everyone is this way, or everyone is that way, it's hard to
remember that there are all kinds of people... I guess all people are
the same in certain ways, on certain levels, and different from each
other on different, other levels... I guess comparing myself to other
people doesn't do any good... you can learn from other people, and kind
of "borrow" from other people, just as you sometimes have to "borrow"
from yourself, but always comparing doesn't do much good, that's been
my observation, any way... I like to think of everything as a
continuum... and everyone is somewhere on the continuum, in many
different areas of life... It's a strange world... so many very
complex, puzzling issues...
-"alvintchase"
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| User: "Bev Thornton" |
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| Title: Re: mood changes |
28 Jan 2006 03:48:16 PM |
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On 2006-01-27, alvintchase wrote:
It's funny how quickly moods can change... I guess partly when you
are alone, and fairly isolated, it's easy to get caught up in your own
world... I guess we're all just sharing parts of ourselves... sometimes
I think of ASD as a journal, a place to work through issues, thoughts,
feelings, ideas... it makes me sad sometimes that there are conflicts,
but it's unavoidable, I think... when you have a diverse group of
people with different personalities, temperaments,experiances, moods,
backrounds etc... interacting, there is bound to be some tension at
times...
Apparently.
interacting can be a postive, important thing, though, both on the
internet and in real life. It can make you less isolated, and help you
with social skills...
The Internet isn't really very good for that.
<http://www.apa.org/monitor/sep98/isolat.html>
<http://archives.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/06/13/internet.addiction.wmd/>
<http://www.jhu.edu/hurj/Issue4/focus-mak.html>
<http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/february23/internet-022305.html>
If it's used just a little bit, it can increase social activity, but if
it's used a lot, it's more likely to have a detrimental effect.
it's so easy, in certain situations to think that everyone is this way,
or everyone is that way, it's hard to remember that there are all kinds
of people...
What could serve as a reminder?
I guess all people are the same in certain ways, on certain levels, and
different from each other on different, other levels... I guess
comparing myself to other people doesn't do any good...
Sometimes, in some ways, it has to be done.
you can learn from other people, and kind of "borrow" from other people,
just as you sometimes have to "borrow" from yourself, but always
comparing doesn't do much good, that's been my observation, any way... I
like to think of everything as a continuum... and everyone is somewhere
on the continuum, in many different areas of life... It's a strange
world... so many very complex, puzzling issues...
Some of them aren't solvable, aren't knowable.
--
<email.4.bev@xoxy.net> Support: <http://www.notdeadyet.org/>
Speak only the speech that neither
torments self nor does harm to others.
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| User: "GlennT" |
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| Title: Re: mood changes |
27 Jan 2006 03:50:46 PM |
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alvintchase wrote:
It's funny how quickly moods can change... I guess partly when you
are alone, and fairly isolated, it's easy to get caught up in your own
world... I guess we're all just sharing parts of ourselves... sometimes
I think of ASD as a journal, a place to work through issues, thoughts,
feelings, ideas... it makes me sad sometimes that there are conflicts,
but it's unavoidable, I think... when you have a diverse group of
people with different personalities, temperaments,experiances, moods,
backrounds etc... interacting, there is bound to be some tension at
times... interacting can be a postive, important thing, though, both on
the internet and in real life. It can make you less isolated, and help
you with social skills... it's so easy, in certain situations to think
that everyone is this way, or everyone is that way, it's hard to
remember that there are all kinds of people... I guess all people are
the same in certain ways, on certain levels, and different from each
other on different, other levels... I guess comparing myself to other
people doesn't do any good... you can learn from other people, and kind
of "borrow" from other people, just as you sometimes have to "borrow"
from yourself, but always comparing doesn't do much good, that's been
my observation, any way... I like to think of everything as a
continuum... and everyone is somewhere on the continuum, in many
different areas of life... It's a strange world... so many very
complex, puzzling issues...
-"alvintchase"
Nod. I particularly like the "borrowing" thing. We borrow until
we either give it back or make one for ourselves... that is a
very good analogy that applies a lot to me.
It is good to see things as a continuum. A wide flowing river
that has always been and will always be. A continuum is the only
constant and to really see that is comforting.
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| User: "%" |
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| Title: Re: mood changes |
27 Jan 2006 03:57:16 PM |
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"GlennT" <askme@noname.nz> wrote in message
news:5BwCf.37048$vH5.979478@news.xtra.co.nz...
alvintchase wrote:
It's funny how quickly moods can change... I guess partly when you
are alone, and fairly isolated, it's easy to get caught up in your own
world... I guess we're all just sharing parts of ourselves... sometimes
I think of ASD as a journal, a place to work through issues, thoughts,
feelings, ideas... it makes me sad sometimes that there are conflicts,
but it's unavoidable, I think... when you have a diverse group of
people with different personalities, temperaments,experiances, moods,
backrounds etc... interacting, there is bound to be some tension at
times... interacting can be a postive, important thing, though, both on
the internet and in real life. It can make you less isolated, and help
you with social skills... it's so easy, in certain situations to think
that everyone is this way, or everyone is that way, it's hard to
remember that there are all kinds of people... I guess all people are
the same in certain ways, on certain levels, and different from each
other on different, other levels... I guess comparing myself to other
people doesn't do any good... you can learn from other people, and kind
of "borrow" from other people, just as you sometimes have to "borrow"
from yourself, but always comparing doesn't do much good, that's been
my observation, any way... I like to think of everything as a
continuum... and everyone is somewhere on the continuum, in many
different areas of life... It's a strange world... so many very
complex, puzzling issues...
-"alvintchase"
Nod. I particularly like the "borrowing" thing. We borrow until
we either give it back or make one for ourselves... that is a
very good analogy that applies a lot to me.
It is good to see things as a continuum. A wide flowing river
that has always been and will always be. A continuum is the only
constant and to really see that is comforting.
like an Moebius band
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| User: "alvintchase" |
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| Title: Re: mood changes |
27 Jan 2006 03:58:37 PM |
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GlennT wrote:
alvintchase wrote:
It's funny how quickly moods can change... I guess partly when you
are alone, and fairly isolated, it's easy to get caught up in your own
world... I guess we're all just sharing parts of ourselves... sometimes
I think of ASD as a journal, a place to work through issues, thoughts,
feelings, ideas... it makes me sad sometimes that there are conflicts,
but it's unavoidable, I think... when you have a diverse group of
people with different personalities, temperaments,experiances, moods,
backrounds etc... interacting, there is bound to be some tension at
times... interacting can be a postive, important thing, though, both on
the internet and in real life. It can make you less isolated, and help
you with social skills... it's so easy, in certain situations to think
that everyone is this way, or everyone is that way, it's hard to
remember that there are all kinds of people... I guess all people are
the same in certain ways, on certain levels, and different from each
other on different, other levels... I guess comparing myself to other
people doesn't do any good... you can learn from other people, and kind
of "borrow" from other people, just as you sometimes have to "borrow"
from yourself, but always comparing doesn't do much good, that's been
my observation, any way... I like to think of everything as a
continuum... and everyone is somewhere on the continuum, in many
different areas of life... It's a strange world... so many very
complex, puzzling issues...
-"alvintchase"
Nod. I particularly like the "borrowing" thing. We borrow until
we either give it back or make one for ourselves... that is a
very good analogy that applies a lot to me.
yep, though maybe I should explain what I mean... I just have the
feeling often that I'm kind of made up of my memories, and images...
not that I don't have my own, unique personality, I do... but many
times, I feel kind of blank, or at least partially blank... not an
empty vessel, but partially empty... and it's my memories of other
people, their habits, mannerisms, ways of talking, interacting that I
can kind of "borrow" from... I feel that, in a way, I'm kind of finding
myself when I do this... It's not that I'm being someone else by
"borrowing" from other people, it's that I'm being more me...
It is good to see things as a continuum. A wide flowing river
that has always been and will always be. A continuum is the only
constant and to really see that is comforting.
I try to remember that, because I have a very jugemental way of
seeing things... I'm always judging and comparing... when you see
things as part of a continuum, there is less judging and more
accepting...
-"alvintchase"
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