On 2005-03-13 00:42:00, Perrigaud wrote:
"I used to be a total psycho. I actually get that response a lot. The program helped but I also did the work by wanting to change. Anything anyone truly wants is attainable. However, it's not always easy. I had a record at the age of 14 that was long and colorful to say the least. I was a ball of anger that took it our physically. Could you believe that I gave a guy 31 stiches from punching him. Yeah, lots of hidden resentments and undealt past experiences. I refuse to ever be that way again. It hurts too much. I truly hated the person I was. "
Oh? Were you bipolar, schizophrenic, or depressed with schizoaffective features? Or did you inflict painful actual serious physical injury on people for fun?
If none of the above, then please don't say you were "psycho"---I hate to be politically correct, and *usually* I don't give a crap about convetional slang. But people who come here frequently have kids with actual mental illnesses and I sure don't want them to confuse the issue of juvenile delinquency with other problems.
There is no cure nor even an effective treatment for genuine psychopaths. There's some pretty good evidence that their brains are broken in certain ways, and we just don't have ways of fixing it.
From what you said you were a j.d.
I'm not trying to put you down or anything, and I'm not trying to be trivially nitpicking or PC.
Just...I guess your problems were bad enough, but people with mental illnesses have enough trouble without the stereotypes. So don't exaggerate, okay?
In this case, it's a little like someone saying, "Yeah, he was workin' us like a bunch a' n******s."
There are psychotic people who take their meds and don't go out and hurt people. They just hallucinate, get delusions, and hear voices and stuff off their meds.
They aren't j.d.'s---their brains are just broken, and they didn't ask for it, and they almost always didn't do anything to cause it, and all they can do to control it is to take their meds---for the ones who are responsive to one of the current medications, anyway. You can't "therapize" out of being psychotic.
Yeah, I know it's conventional usage for any irrational, wildly warped or violent person---but in the context *here* I have a problem with it.
Okay, it's my "issue"---but that's how I feel about it.
Timoclea