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This is the fundamental insight of intellectual shamanism:
"A lifetime without the cyclical torment of mood disorders, Ghaemi explains, can leave one ill equipped to endure dire straits."
http://www.ianwelsh.net/screw-optimism-and-screw-sanity/
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It has been said that Nietzsche had "bipolar" features, although I believe that term should be in inverted commas as it wasn't an illness with him, just the fact that he could look at reality from its emotional heights and from its depths and that he constantly developed his mind on the basis of adjusting his perspectives like this.
Modernity, of course, disagrees, and this is costly: perhaps the tendency of contemporary parents is to become processing devices for the child's negative emotions. Children might fare much better with less attention, so that they would have to see their emotional storms. Others grow up to rely on authority figures to mediate their emotions.
This is the fundamental insight of intellectual shamanism:
"A lifetime without the cyclical torment of mood disorders, Ghaemi explains, can leave one ill equipped to endure dire straits."
http://www.ianwelsh.net/screw-optimism-and-screw-sanity/
MORE:
It has been said that Nietzsche had "bipolar" features, although I believe that term should be in inverted commas as it wasn't an illness with him, just the fact that he could look at reality from its emotional heights and from its depths and that he constantly developed his mind on the basis of adjusting his perspectives like this.
Modernity, of course, disagrees, and this is costly: perhaps the tendency of contemporary parents is to become processing devices for the child's negative emotions. Children might fare much better with less attention, so that they would have to see their emotional storms. Others grow up to rely on authority figures to mediate their emotions.
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