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Old Mar 11, 2013, 03:41 PM
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Originally Posted by pachyderm View Post
I think the problem with those who seem to advocate the "broken brain" idea is that they appear to think that brain brokenness is the origin of the problem, and that the interpersonal experience of a person plays no part in how the trouble began. In fact, I think people who promote this idea are denying that relations-between-people is a causative factor.
I think this is the problem with a lot of people's thinking. They think their particular issues must have the same root as other people's problems.

Myself, the major part of my issues I was born with. I know some people squirm and think "denial" but it is because they find their problems come from life and other people. But for some reason most people cannot get their heads around the fact that, in this case they cannot know others just from knowing themselves.

I have realized long ago that people can have issues from life events, from childhood and so on. When I was very young I didn't think so because I myself wasn't like that! But I let fact in, I listened to people and I had to just realize everyone has a different story.

And for some illnesses, such as schizophrenia, there has not been a connection between childhood and illness, you are much more likely to find that with someone with for example BPD. Myself and those types of anxieties I have, you have to have weak brain filters to even be able to develop, so called low latent inhibition. And yea, I was born with ASD and ADD. I didn't have a particularly stressful life to made my anxieties worse, I just cannot blame that.

So I would wish that everyone took a step outside their own set of issues and look at other with different eyes. Understand that even if you like me, come with no difficult life, other people can come with issues very much rooted in experience. And those feeling life has caused them issues, realize some people are born different.

This should be a very reasonable thing to unite around.
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