Why is a psychological "disorder" is classified as a bad thing?
It's looked upon like some piece of a person that is unfortunate, yet must be destroyed. Sure, quite often psychological disorders impair the person from being able to function in society, or be happy with themself.
But what about the person that doesn't care about that stuff?
Society is built around the christian religion, a lot of our laws are similar to things written in the Old and New testament, other scriptures, and our morals are very close to those of the christian church.
Also, the christian religion has 7 sins:
greed, sloth, pride, gluttony, wrath, lust and envy.
My point is that in this society, we are based a lot off of the christian religion, and in this society, we have psychological disorders. The connection between these two points is that the 7 sins all reflect certain psychological disorders. I just made this connection a few weeks ago.
A christian might try to avoid the 7 sins and so naturally it makes sense that these sins correlate with psychological disorders--- because people with psychological disorders, although are supported more nowadays, have been looked down upon.
This just makes me wonder how credible psychological disorders actually are, if they are just historically based off of the 7 sins, which come from the bible.
Here is specifically how each connect:
Pride can easily be connected to narcissitic or histrionic personality disorder.
Greed is associated with narcissistic and antisocial personality disorders.
Sloth means being lazy, slow, so technically any disorder associated with slow brain functioning, or being a vegetative state, is associated with the sin of "sloth". So even ADHD would apply here.
Gluttony is obsessive eating, so any over-eating disorder qualifies here.
Wrath is being angry, and excessive anger is a symptom of disorders such as PTSD and PMDD.
Lust can be associated easily with histrionic personality disorder.
Envy is actually one of the big symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder.
This just makes me question the credibility of psychological disorders. Why is it considered a disorder? Why if a person is acting schizophrenic, is it considered bad? Why should the person be treated to function within society?
Oh right, structure. We fear chaos.
Every conclusion I ever come to, is the fact that Western culture fears chaos. Even right now with Kim Jong-Un. Whether or not he has the technology, is irrelevant. Some people are just shrugging it off, others are not, but either way, people are afraid of chaos.
Eastern culture doesn't seem to be as afraid.
For all of you who are not history geeks, the term chaos comes from the Greek term kaos/kos/khaos which was from one of their creation myths, that earth was birthed from Kaos.
Throughout Greek history, and maybe a bit in Roman, their myths frequently surrounded the fear of chaos (not really Kaos, but chaos).
Since a lot of who we are is derived from Greek and Roman times, we also now, fear chaos.
At least this is my theory.
Some final questions I am going to leave unanswered by myself:
Should psychological disorders be looked at again, every few years, decades, etc., to see their credibility to the society today? Do psychological disorders outdate themselves? Think of the fact that being gay used to be a psychological disorder of sorts. Should the 7 sins be qualifications in the diagnosis or factors of any psychological disorders?
It's looked upon like some piece of a person that is unfortunate, yet must be destroyed. Sure, quite often psychological disorders impair the person from being able to function in society, or be happy with themself.
But what about the person that doesn't care about that stuff?
Society is built around the christian religion, a lot of our laws are similar to things written in the Old and New testament, other scriptures, and our morals are very close to those of the christian church.
Also, the christian religion has 7 sins:
greed, sloth, pride, gluttony, wrath, lust and envy.
My point is that in this society, we are based a lot off of the christian religion, and in this society, we have psychological disorders. The connection between these two points is that the 7 sins all reflect certain psychological disorders. I just made this connection a few weeks ago.
A christian might try to avoid the 7 sins and so naturally it makes sense that these sins correlate with psychological disorders--- because people with psychological disorders, although are supported more nowadays, have been looked down upon.
This just makes me wonder how credible psychological disorders actually are, if they are just historically based off of the 7 sins, which come from the bible.
Here is specifically how each connect:
Pride can easily be connected to narcissitic or histrionic personality disorder.
Greed is associated with narcissistic and antisocial personality disorders.
Sloth means being lazy, slow, so technically any disorder associated with slow brain functioning, or being a vegetative state, is associated with the sin of "sloth". So even ADHD would apply here.
Gluttony is obsessive eating, so any over-eating disorder qualifies here.
Wrath is being angry, and excessive anger is a symptom of disorders such as PTSD and PMDD.
Lust can be associated easily with histrionic personality disorder.
Envy is actually one of the big symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder.
This just makes me question the credibility of psychological disorders. Why is it considered a disorder? Why if a person is acting schizophrenic, is it considered bad? Why should the person be treated to function within society?
Oh right, structure. We fear chaos.
Every conclusion I ever come to, is the fact that Western culture fears chaos. Even right now with Kim Jong-Un. Whether or not he has the technology, is irrelevant. Some people are just shrugging it off, others are not, but either way, people are afraid of chaos.
Eastern culture doesn't seem to be as afraid.
For all of you who are not history geeks, the term chaos comes from the Greek term kaos/kos/khaos which was from one of their creation myths, that earth was birthed from Kaos.
Throughout Greek history, and maybe a bit in Roman, their myths frequently surrounded the fear of chaos (not really Kaos, but chaos).
Since a lot of who we are is derived from Greek and Roman times, we also now, fear chaos.
At least this is my theory.
Some final questions I am going to leave unanswered by myself:
Should psychological disorders be looked at again, every few years, decades, etc., to see their credibility to the society today? Do psychological disorders outdate themselves? Think of the fact that being gay used to be a psychological disorder of sorts. Should the 7 sins be qualifications in the diagnosis or factors of any psychological disorders?
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