Posted by Christ_empowered on September 20, 2011, at 12:27:11
In reply to Re: I miss the babble I joined 3.5 years ago » Phillipa, posted by floatingbridge on September 19, 2011, at 21:17:30
After all this time on Babble, I'm only now beginning to appreciate it. The struggles against society and self, the pills, the voice of the silent Other--the mental patient--piping up on an anonymous web board run by...wait for it...a psychiatrist.
I like Babble now more than I did back in the day, when I was a young pill head diving head-first into oblivion. Now I actually learn from it.
I am sometimes disturbed by the fact that our moderator is a shrink. Have you ever read that Joyce Carol Oates short story, "The Collector of Hearts" ? I barely remember it, and I don't want to ruin it for anyone who hasn't read it, but what freaked me out was how a person could seize someone's essence, their being, and then add it to their collection--effectively reducing a human to a trophy, an object, a topic of discussion.
Sometimes I feel like all shrinks (possibly all therapists, too) are "Collectors of Hearts," or possibly souls; we tell them our stories, and we are turned into patient X, with symptoms Y, and appropriate treament Z, and its off to the next patient/heart. I shudder to think that when I'm gone, my psychiatric records might be the only remaining record of me, and it will be a story thoroughly de-clawed and neutered by a "disinterest professional." Good bye pathos; hello pathology.
Sorry to rant.
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