October 7, 2005

• i've bought this counselling book and it's very useful, however the way psychiatrists define conditions of the soul/mind/heart  as 'x disorder' sounds like everything we are is in some way or another a disorder. how much of something is healthy and how much of it is unhealthy is still rather unclear to me, perhaps it is to be revealed within the next few days (only just bought the book yesterday). for the time being it seems like I personally have pretty much all the disorders in the book, and a lot of my friends have a good number of them too. so are we all doomed? shit, i bought the book cos i thought i should know a thing or two when i talk to people, but the book seems like we're all so deep in one or the other weakness..

  
  

  being too selfish is bad
  being too altruistic is bad
  being too dependent is bad
  being too independent is bad
  being too open is bad
  being too reserved is bad
  
  yeah, whatever. the difference between this kind of book and the other book i'm reading ("what's so amazing about grace" by Philip Yancey) is that the former focuses on analysing disorders ('this is what disorders humans have), while the latter focuses on forgiving them (we are all very disorderly but we need to learn to forgive these flaws in ourselves and in others). going from the latter book to the former feels shit, needless to say. but loving without knowing the human soul is useless, so i feel that i have to trawl through it.

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