Carl-Richard

The most important distinction is between type 1 (with mania, psychosis) and type 2 (with hypomania, no psychosis). I've seen my dad in various stages of mania and visited him at the mental hospital once. It's like the mind becomes a superconductor or a superliquid substance. It makes associations between different concepts at an alarming rate, and it's hard to hold a conversation, because they'll either speak way too much or switch topics very rapidly. The strings connecting the topics tend to be hyper-abstract and hard to follow, and they probably contain many layers of meaning that a non-manic person will miss. Sometimes words are associated with each other based on sound quality rather than meaning ("clanging"), kinda like freestyle rap, which in severe cases becomes incomprehensible.

I think I've made myself clear enough when I first made this thread. If you have any issues with the points I made, you're free to comment on them directly.

Yes. I thought about making this thread.

I try to not spend time on absolute nonsense. That is why I made this thread. Now, I can't control what other moderators do, but other moderators have taken a liking to my idea, so maybe you'll see less micromanaging of people's journals.

I didn't know about that rule.

I'll maybe consider my idea above.

All this is for absolutely nothing then

I think I have a new idea: if people refuse to block each other, then you'll be given warning points.

I like how absolutely nobody takes the only advice that makes logical sense.

Golden oldie

I think Sv3rige content should be banned from this forum.

An unexpected terminal illness diagnosis is much more emotionally destabilizing than the stable progression towards old age.

I think there should be a law somewhere that says a sudden diagnosis of terminal illness should make a president unfit for office. We gotta update how government works along with modern, context-aware scientific frameworks like the biopsychosocial model.

Makes little sense.

I guess I think all this talk about genetics and no mentioning of actually genes or alleles should be pointed out. In my ideal autistic world, you should use "biological inheritance" instead. It's of course not a big deal though ?

Ok if you don't want to go that far, still the thing is that this conversation does not penetrate deeper than "genetics" as a blanket term for things that you cannot control. There are really no specifics (at least so far), because that would require science, which is most likely non-existent on this issue.

I think this genetics debate is really just about how much hope/doubt you have that you yourself will be enlightened one day (it's just a proxy for self-efficacy). Without any statistically rigorous empirical data, it's mostly just speculation muddled by bias.

Did he doubt it?

I think a better method is to find the limitations of the metaphor (aspects of it that are very concrete and make it more likely to not work): For example: Sex is... 1. an extreme (emotionally etc.) 2. mainly physical or sensory. 3. vulgar or offensive. In line with those points (and some of yours), sex could be a good metaphor for when communication has an extremely emotional impact, in a way that one is also physically moved (e.g. heart rate, bodily euphoria/dysphoria etc.), and in a way that is somehow vulgar or offensive, like a mindfuck (rape) or a mindblowing insight (orgasm). I think my initial reaction was mostly based on the feeling of lack of emotional resonance between the metaphor and the things described. It just felt wrong to me.

Metacognition.

I am, because I found it distasteful when it was given that much effort

The longer you draw out a metaphor, the less useful it becomes. It can also just be a bad metaphor. Let me demonstrate: Teaching is like taking a shit. You let out something deep inside, and people stare at it with disgust or fascination.

So all teachers fuck their students? Sex is an extreme, like a mindfuck. Using it to describe everything is a bit blunt.

BMI > MBTI

Ah it's an automatic thing. I'll turn it off.