I Cry For My Generation More Than Anything.

[iwannadeletethis]

With respect to other people's opinions, here's how I personally feel..
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Great quote!!

 

[Truthful_Whispers]

Great quote!!

Thank you, Skitzii. I know it isn't how the majority views things, and I don't recommend it for anyone, but it is simply the glasses that I view the world, particularly humanity, through. No rose-colored lenses for me. :sorry: lol

 

[iwannadeletethis]

Thank you, Skitzii. I know it isn't how the majority views things, and I don't recommend it for...

I feel that. I try my hardest to look for the positive while finding the truth. Otherwise, what is there to live for?

 

[Flossy]

What works for me @Skitzii is to bring myself back to the "village", my village. Where I go, who I meet, who I know, where I live.

I don't think our brains are designed to think about 'the world" and 'humanity'. We are only meant to know and deal with what happens in our village.

We are not designed to be able to cope with tsunamis, earthquakes, 4,000 wars, images of mass destruction. We are only designed to see and hear about what happens in our village/community.

Try it. It doesn't mean you dont care or that you're an asshole. It means you are living how your brain and soul were designed to live.

Ants are not designed to worry about a lion eating a zebra.

Whales are not designed to see or hear about the slaughter of cattle for food.

Bees are not designed to cope with monkeys losing their habitat.

Humans are not designed to see, hear and think about all animals, insects, humans and faraway villages and their horrors, struggles and tragedies.

We need to reduce our exposure to the trauma of other humans and species. Give a thought of respect and kindness and come back to our own village and stay there. Fight like shit to stop anyone from dragging us out into the horrors of the rest of the world.

There are other villagers in that part of the world to deal with that in the best way.

Please try it if you can. It sound selfish. It's not. It's what nature meant for us.

 

[Mallaky]

know it isn't how the majority views thing

I feel strongly that this thinking is the majority. Go to any random forum in the internet, and this is how a vast majority argue, all the while thinking they are a minority.

 

[joeylittle]

I know love, I've been there. A lot. @sigh .. I'm sorry if I triggered you.

I really thought about whether or not it was important to me, to pick up this post and comment on it. And I've decided yes, it is.

So I say this not as a rebuke to you, skitzii - I'm saying it because I believe your response here is wrong, and I believed your statement, here:

What's been done to me is small compared to the mental rape of today's society.

Is both unhealthy (worth challenging), and offensive, (inadvertently, though, I'm sure).

Skitzii:What's been done to me is small compared to the mental rape of today's society.
Sighs:Can we not with the rape metaphors? You know what feels like rape, is rape.
Skitzii:I know love, I've been there. A lot. I'm sorry if I triggered you.

Using rape as a metaphor for anything is inconsiderate to people who have been raped. It is no different from someone saying, 'I have PTSD from surviving that class' - or, 'waiting for the bus was torture'. You're taking an act that has clear meaning for someone, and turning it into something else - something lesser.

Rape is rape. Torture is torture. Depression is depression. PTSD is PTSD. I could go on.

Whether or not you have experienced rape doesn't somehow grant you the right to diminish what it is, and that's happening two ways: one, but creating the phrase 'mental rape', as if such a thing exists (there are many other ways to say what you mean here); and two, by saying what happened to you is smaller than an imaginary thing.

Why are you minimizing yourself? Your experience matters. There is a coping skill that uses comparison, where one identifies with a perceived larger area of suffering, in an effort to reframe one's own - and I think that's actually what you are reaching for, here. But you can reach for it without minimizing yourself, and minimizing the experience of other rape survivors as well.

What does 'mental rape of today's society' even mean?

The thing to apologize for is not that you triggered someone. You're missing what was wrong. The wrong is that you made someone's experience lesser - you minimized someone. And then you minimized yourself, as well.

I recognize that my depression tends to begin and end with that.

I think I understand this - that there is something about the larger picture of the world in which we live that causes you great sadness, maybe even overwhelms you. I really think it would be useful for you to say more about that, more specifically - because maybe getting at the root of it will help alleviate some of the suffering you feel.

I absolutely am not trying to start an argument, and you are more than welcome to think I've got hold of the wrong end of the stick. I can say for sure, it's not an emotional reaction, it's a political one, maybe even a feminist one. And so, I'm also not asking for anything - not explanation, or apology, or debate - just, those are powerful words you used in a way that seems to me to actually hurt yourself, minimize yourself.

I get really emotionally overwhelmed when I think about the world we live in. Like, swamped, on the floor, sobbing, overwhelmed. It can help me to turn my lens around in those moments and allow myself to grieve for myself, as well - since I actually don't know how to care about myself in the same way I care about the world (if that makes sense). Anyway, it helps me make use of a moment that would otherwise just leave me stranded. I put myself in the picture, too. You could try that, maybe it would help.

 

[anthony]

@Whispering_Truth & @Mallaky please just keep in the back of your mind copyright of images. If you do not own the copyright to an image, or do not have permission to post images by the author of the image (asked or purchased stock photography rights), then chances are you are breaking the law and also this forums legal policy.

We have removed members from this forum due to receiving DMCA applications through our hosting in the past. Because it exists online, does not mean you have the right to reuse it.

Just food for thought, as you both post images that I do not believe you have the right to publish, and seem to think it is ok. Just be aware, there are laws, and they are enforced. When done so here, I get punished, then I punish the person breaking the law.

 

[Truthful_Whispers]

@Whispering_Truth & @Mallaky please just keep in the back of your mind...

Understood. Well, that just lets all the air out of the balloon.. Everything is copyrighted these days. Even people's farts are patent pending..

 

[anthony]

I don't make the law... but I have to abide by it.

 

[Truthful_Whispers]

I don't make the law... but I have to abide by it.

I understand. You don't make the law, d*ckheads do. And they make some awfully stupid ones.

 

[Mallaky]

@anthony Doesnt this kind of thing fall under fair use?

 

[Flossy]

I don't meant to speak for someone else, but I have a point to make about the use of images and philosophies that are commonly used in social media sites such as FB. I think there is another aspect of posting images, that @anthony as founder & owner of 'my PTSD' website and forum, could have an issue with.

Many, many forums become messy and off-topic totally, due to the use of images & borrowed philosophies.

I believe this forum is quite unique in that the strict guidelines mean it has not been allowed to become messy. It is a resource for sufferers and supporters. Not a debate forum or a forum to discuss world issues.

The bottom line is that the forum belongs to Anthony Parsons. If he told me not to post shit, I wouldn't post it. It's like when you visit someone's home, if they dont like your behaviour or manners, they ask you to leave. You don't argue the point.

This forum is paid for and encoded by one person who has the headache of the way it runs and the way space is taken up. This is in addition to the way it throws threads and eventually the forum off-topic.

It has already done that very thing with this thread. We've gotta stick to the rules guys. We've just got to.