Imagine being a woman and having to pretend that a guy, because he says so, is just as much a woman as you are. That is crazy and attempting to act as if such barking mad rubbish is completely normal would be enough to drive any one over the bend. You cannot live by lies long term. Reality always wins in the end.
The Lib Crazy Matrix
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
“You cannot live by lies long term. Reality always wins in the end.”
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I can’t remember the details, but some years back I was listening to a local Baptist minister talk about a fellow he had known for many years. Said fellow had tried to turn his life around, but he was a liar. Hard core. Like, he would just lie about everything, all the time, automatically, before his brain caught up with what he mouth was saying and he could stop it. This poor man ended up committing suicide.
56% of liberal white women age 18-29. I’m curious as to the percentage of that group that has had multiple abortions. Just wondering aloud.
The post abortive apostolate’s help the women to heal from their abortion. Naming and preforming a mock burial for their deceased child is a step in healing the mother.
I imagine that the pain, guilt and remorse must be excruciating.
Numbing the pain doesn’t eliminate it. My guess is that it makes matters worse. Probably driving the woman mad.
…and then we need to know what percentage of those doctors asking/not asking were liberal women.
Maybe the numbers of crazed were much higher?
Neo-neocon has been both a lawyer and a junior grade psychologist in the course of her life and hosted a discussion on this topic.
I suspect there’s a mess of things that are correlated here, e.g. the propensity to experience distress, the tendency to respond to distress by talking to the sort of people who issue diagnoses, problems in assembling stable man-woman relationships, a tendency to respond to personal issues with recrimination, and thus a tendency to embrace a fundamentally recriminatory politics. Teasing out the causality is challenging.
Here’s an exemplary professional class Democrat here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPkZmS68UwY&t=34s
Part of it may be that accusations of mental illness are a standard liberal tactic to enforce conformity.
And yes, that will be exercised by some medical professionals, even if you ignore obviously not-in-professional-context.
Probably explains why our President is so addicted to telling fictitious stories about his own history. The inability to acknowledge fact is an indicator of the need for professional help.
No sure how real these complaints are. Fr. James Gillis SP in his 1925 book “False Prophets” observed that as soon an Freud became popular after WWI, the faddish people “suddenly” discovered all sorts of things wrong with them, when they were only looking for a justification of indulging their weaknesses. As the 1950s were an age when people internalized problems (“What would the neighbors say?”), we moved by the 1970s to “let it all hang out”. How much of this is adolescent drama-queening indulged by adults who should know better, because modern liberalism encourages it?
As the 1950s were an age when people internalized problems (“What would the neighbors say?”),
Joseph Adelson identified the period running from 1945 to 1965 as the era in which psychoanalysis had its greatest prestige and analysts had full client lists (he was a working clinician at the time). When I was working at my local university medical center a generation ago, there was one man associated with the psychiatry department who advertised his analytic training. That man was born in 1923 and died in 1996. Charles Krauthammer noted that during his psychiatric residency (1976-79), it was still a requirement a resident undergo analysis, an indignity he managed to avoid somehow. By the time he took his board certification examinations (in 1984, when he’d been working as an opinion journalist for three years), there wasn’t one question on the test inspired by Freudian concepts.
I’d wager you were correct that much distress is iatrogenic. Seen that up close and personal.
Art:
Gillis suggested that was going to happen in 1925. He was even blunter than Fulton Sheen would be, writing later, that the confessional would solve more of these “problems” than the couch.
True Confession story.
Our parish has Confessions Saturdays 3pm to 4pm. I needed to make my Easter Duty and got in line [not too long and the woman in front of me was like 90 years old – what could she commit?] Well she was in there for half an hour. And I needed a beer. Go figure.
Only 56%?
Purely Anecdotal. The Wardens’ sister, her husband and two of the three adult offspring for decades have been on serious meds and psychiatric care. All five are liberal, liberal, liberal.
Here Comes Your 19th Nervous Breakdown: TRUMP 2024!
Our parish has Confessions Saturdays 3pm to 4pm. I needed to make my Easter Duty and got in line [not too long and the woman in front of me was like 90 years old – what could she commit?]
I think lonely souls sometimes enjoy the opportunity to talk to someone and others regard it as an opportunity for free counseling. Myself I always observe the rule of the three Bs: Be brief, be blunt and begone.
Donald:
“Be brief, be blunt and begone!”
You’re quoting Fr. Gillis from his chapter on Freud 🙂
Abortion and radical feminism has robbed women of their identity. No wonder they need meds to cope. That is sometimes the only thing which keeps suppressing the natural God-given identity. When you do t have an identity you end up very insecure.
Great comment Ezabelle.
I agree. They construct an identity and are frustrated that it doesn’t bring them happiness or peace.
It is unnatural to kill your children. Les Miserables Jean Valjean moment WHO AM I is counter productive if framed without Christianity, forgiveness and mercy. Looking around it seems that relativism is helpful for big Pharma, but disastrous for real people suffering from the effects of bad choices.
The worse phrase ever uttered;
Be happy with your truth.
Off the topic a bit…but I believe it’s worth sharing. I hope you do as well.
https://vladtepesblog.com/2023/03/21/it-was-not-a-mistake-a-video-reminding-us-to-not-allow-a-way-out-for-the-perpetrators/
Agree Philip. Well said. I’ll add My Way sung by Sinatra. But one that always stuck in my mind (and the delivery and talent is undeniable) is Whitney Houston’s “The Greatest Love of All”. The entire song is about the greatest love of all is learning to love yourself. Yeah ok how lovely. But the most counter-Christian message is in the second verse:
… Everybody searching for a hero
People need someone to look up to
I never found anyone who fulfill my needs
A lonely place to be
And so I learned to depend on me
Yikes! If I had to depend on me most of the time I would be up a creek without a paddle. But unfortunately that’s how society is told to live when they remove God. Depend on yourself. Otherwise we have meds for that.
Yes.
Self dependency is pride.
Pride and humility just don’t mix.
Whitney Houston.
A sad commentary on a soul on fire for God at the beginning of her life…then stardom…then the fall.
I loved her talent.