Let me first start off by saying I really enjoyed the show. I ripped through it pretty quick and then watched it again with my dad when he started watching it.
In the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy we're introduced to seven adopted siblings with special abilities. All accept one. Gradually we learn that this seemingly normal sibling is on medication "for her nerves." When she misses a dose she discovers that without her medication she is able to feel more deeply. When she plays the violin there is a force that we can see that is invisible to all others that emanates from her and influences those listening to the music.
She realizes that she has had powers all along, but when she was young her eccentric adoptive father found it difficult to control her so he used one of the other siblings' powers to erase her memory of her power, and put her on medication that suppressed any extremes in her emotions.
Her powers were amplified by her emotions. When she was angry or upset she could cause devastating destruction to her surroundings. We only saw a glimpse of the possibility of her powers when she feels peaceful, but it appears that she may have been able to put people in a trance.
Also the reaction of her siblings to the discovery of her power made things even worse. They reacted out of fear and locked her up. She wound up "killing" her sister and bringing on the apocalypse in response to their lack of empathy for what she was going through.
As someone who personally once felt that I had special powers as one of my delusions, I felt that this message could potentially be very dangerous for those who really do need medication. Also the fact that they refer to it as medication "for her nerves" bothered me, because it wasn't just about anxiety, it was obviously a mood stabilizer.
If there is anyone who watches this or another show or movie and gets the idea that they should stop their medication in order to regain their super powers I ask you to also consider the possibility that cessation of your medication also gives your enemies back their super powers. Not literally, but that's the best metaphor I can come up with to express how dangerous it can become for those that do benefit from medication. Because you will be your true worst enemy.
Tl;dr: I love sci-fi, but sometimes the creators can be unknowingly irresponsible when their stories parallel actual mental illness. Stay on your meds. They don't suppress your super powers.
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> The ubiquitous use of war metaphors when referring to cancer may do more harm than good, according to research into the psychological impact the phrases have on people's views of the disease.
> "In four separate experiments involving nearly 1,000 generally healthy volunteers, the researchers looked at how people's opinions varied on reading passages about cancer patients that included battle metaphors, journey metaphors, or no metaphors at all. The battle metaphors included words such as"fight", "attack" and invaded".
> After reading accounts of cancer patients sprinkled with war metaphors, people rated cancer treatment as more difficult than those who read the same passages with journey metaphors, or no metaphors at all.
> Hauser said war metaphors were so ingrained in cancer language that it would be difficult to do away with them.
> "People who die from cancer have not died because they didn't try hard enough. This research should give pause for thought to organisations who continue to use war terminology. The language we choose has profound consequences."
> "Martin Ledwick, Cancer Research UK's head information nurse, said:"There are no right or wrong words for people talking about their own personal experience and some people do see their cancer experience as a fight or a battle.
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Read books by psychiatrist Thomas Szasz if you want to educate yourself about how mental illness is a metaphor for real subjective suffering and experiencing problems in living, and not an actual physical bodily disorder. Mental illness exists like sick jokes exist.
Like??? Bro ppl also used to think bathing was bad for you and that cutting your wrists would help with illness, why is it here that you cant accept medical advancements
Recently I have noticed an uptick in threads discussing Suicide in the face of suffering, illness, and misfortune. This has been troublesome for me, and as fate would have it, today I came across Letter LXXVIII from Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic.
In this letter Seneca supports his sick friend, giving him advice on how to live on courageously while facing his illness. It really resonated with me, and I hope it can strengthen your courage and resolve as you deal with illness and so called misfortune. Below I have left a small excerpt from this letter, and if you can I recommend you read the letter in it’s entirety. I hope this can inspire discussion, and courage in us all.
“Look at the amount of punishment boxers and wrestlers take to the face and the body generally! They will put up none the less with any suffering in their desire for fame, and will undergo it all not merely in the course of fighting but in preparing for their fights as well: their training in itself constitutes suffering. Let us too overcome all things, with our reward consisting not in any wreath or garland, not in trumpet-calls for silence for the ceremonial proclamation of our name, but in moral worth, in strength of spirit, in a peace that is won for ever once in any contest fortune has been utterly defeated.”
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Imagine that the stress and anxiety of life falls in the form of raindrops.
Most people feel the rain directly on their body. They feel the cold rain bounce off their skin. They feel each drop glide slowly down their arms, onto their hands, down through their fingertips. Eventually, they watch as the drops fall off their body, having felt the chill of each drop completely.
At points in your life, it has felt like for others it rains, but for you it pours. Storms seem to last days, months, or even years.
One day, you see some peers wearing a new, thick wool sweater. You see them wearing it at fun events, most of the time when it’s not even raining. You see how appealing it looks, how much fun they’re having, and decide you’re going to buy your own wool sweater.
When you first try it on, you are taken away by the warmth of its grasp. You feel a comfort like never before. Most of all, you realize I don’t feel the rain anymore! The sweater absorbs the raindrops and suddenly you’re wondering where has this been all of my life?
Before long, you’re wearing this sweater constantly. You never leave home without it. The comfort it provides is now an essential part of your being.
The only thing is, the rain hasn’t stopped. The drops continue to fall, the storms continue to pass, only now the rain doesn’t bounce off the skin. The drops are absorbed entirely by the sweater.
While you no longer feel the chill of the drops, you begin to feel the weight of the sweater. With each passing year it becomes heavier and heavier before eventually enveloping your whole self.
The feeling becomes maddening. You’ve convinced yourself that the weight of the sweater is more bearable than the chill of a raindrop.
But the truth is, you can’t even remember the chill of a raindrop, you only know the numbness and weight of the sweater. You’ve convinced yourself this is better, but you haven’t taken the sweater off in so long that you can’t possibly know.
You know it’s time for change but you’ve convinced yourself you need the sweater. It’s all you know. The thought of exposure is terrifying.
In our lives, we use marijuana as a shield from the hardship of reality. Until we step away, we won’t realize that that shield is the weight that was holding us down in the first place.
Life isn’t meant to be lived comfortably numb. There are ups and downs but that spectrum builds who we are. The rain never stops falling, but with each consecutive storm we learn and grow stronger.
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EDIT: And to those who say "Oh it was a metaphor", remember when Jesus withered the fig tree? He used similar language to his disciples saying if they had faith in him they'd be able to do as he just did with the fig tree and more. Why accept that as literal (which again Christians should be able to do easily yet do not), and yet hand-wave a moment with very similar wording as metaphorical? And if all of that is supposed to be metaphorical/allegorical, how can we take the Garden, Exodus, the Flood, etc. as literal as well?
Steel Breeze. Totally opposite things. 🤨
War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you divide the world into Me or Us (good) and Them or It (bad) and reduce the ethical complexity and moral richness of our life to Yes/No, On/Off. This is puerile, misleading, and degrading. In stories, it evades any solution but violence and offers the reader mere infantile reassurance. All too often the heroes of such fantasies behave exactly as the villains do, acting with mindless violence, but the hero is on the “right” side and therefore will win. Right makes might.
Look at how Narnia is a war against the White Witch for goodness, how Lord of the Rings is a war against Sauron for peace, how Star Wars is a war against Palpatine for freedom, how Batman constantly fights the Joker for his city's continued safety. Look at any RPG videogame where good overcomes evil because the hero grinds to level 90 and equips a holy sword, then wins by slashing everything in his path. Do you think these are juvenile ways to present a good vs evil struggle? I've been reading Le Guin's work, and indeed violence rarely defeats evil in Earthsea, wisdom does. I'm beginning to agree with her that good vs evil swordfights make for poor moral lessons. What do you think? Can a sword duel or epic siege really destroy the evil that dwells in all our hearts and minds? Can stabbing the Evil Dark Lord in the face with a sword (or tossing his life force into a flaming volcano) really restore peace and justice to the world?
Some works that kind of align with what Le Guin is saying:
Planescape Torment- You can technically brute force your way through this videogame, sure, but to get the best outcome, you must bump up your Wisdom stat and use it to reason with your enemies rather than stab them in the face.
First Law- Yes this series is a bloody, gory warfest, but at least it does not use war as a moral metaphor! Might certainly does not make right in Abercrombie's world, in fact the victors tend to get worse. The series recognizes little difference between a "war hero" and a "mass murderer". If there are any victories in this series, it is self-discovery and positive change like Temple's in Red Country. Every swing of a sword is a moral defeat here.
Broken Empire- Jorg bypasses the "war as a moral metaphor" by rejecting morality to begin with. He's an asshole and a mass murderer, and he's cool with it. At no point does he make any prete
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The explanation I have read and heard about is simplified as cortisol damages the insulation around the wiring in the brain.
Bonus question, how does cortisol effect seratonin in the brain or is this question irrelevant.
I love psychedelics. They've really been huge in improving my life and have really improved my quality of life by magnitudes. I don't think I've ever been this free of anxiety and stress before.
I have noticed though, a trend in the psychedelic community, of having gone through a really vivid and powerful experience, to really interpret their trips VERY literally. Like, "OH WOW. I saw a butterfly on the wall, and it communicated to me that I should go and plant flowers, so that's what I'm doing now." This is just a made-up example of someone taking their trip literally, but people definitely say things similar to this in real life.
I find this dangerous because taking trips literally seems........ like a fast way to really lose yourself in the various messages that you're prone to perceiving during a psychedelic experience. Really, your brain can come up with any number of intrusive thought or message, and the idea of taking these random thoughts that show up highly literally feels dangerous to me, and a quick way to lose yourself, such as when people say stuff like, "Oh, after that trip, I KNOW now we're living in a simulation." That doesn't seem very healthy to me.
What if you had a trip in which you pulled out the message that you ought to kill your mom, because her soul is trapped in her now ageing body, and this will release her spirit so she no longer has to feel pain. This is an extreme example, but why would someone not choose to take that literally, when they have taken other notions as completely literal?
It seems to me that the most powerful aspect of psychedelics come when you truly understand the trip as a metaphor. Where you get a specific message, that is powerful but inherently nonsensical. Like, take for example the idea that everything is a simulation. I think that's one of the more common and often times dysphoric ideas that emerges. When understood as metaphor rather than as literal truth, this idea of "simulation" turns from alienating thought of de-realization into perhaps the recognition that we live life under many social constructs, many of which don't make sense, and perhaps we do not have to adhere so stringently to these constructs, especially where they produce anxiety and fear in our lives.
Seems healthier anyway.
Just a thought. Would love to hear yours.
I'm wondering if what's happening to her like the demon possession is really happening in the show or if she's just mentally ill. Either depressed, schizophrenic or something like that. Although she's a witch she doesn't seem like the Harry Potter kind of one magically wise and sometimes she seems ill. Never understood why demons wants to do that to her though. (PS! My memories sucks, so I may have missed out details)
Once again my homies, I've come to tell you about this message. Time and time again, all the posts that I've submitted to this sub have either been brushed off as "shitposting at full peak" or "haha curry back at it again." This time however I'll show you how serious I am and you will all apologise for treating me as a shitposter.
Now everyone likes to blame this season's failures on a number of things, this can through Carey Price's inconsistency, Max Domi's failure to replicate his career year, Jesperi Kotkaniemi's sophomore slump that have invited conversations of whether he's a bust, Claude Julien's inability to make good lines and of course Marc Bergevin's inability to secure that explosive forward.
I believe our team is great, I do believe our team is playoff calibre. However with the injection of youth in our team of Nick Suzuki, the aforementioned Jesperi Kotkaniemi, Cale Fleury and Ryan Poehling. I believe these guys convinced the entire team that the goal should not be to make the playoffs but to send a message of the impending doom that awaits us.
We are now in
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U N P R E C E D E N T E D times, with one main culprit. Covid-19. Thing is, we were warned by our very own Habs, every loss, every game was a message to us.
Don't believe me? Well let's take a look at some statistics and how they correlate. Let's talk about the dogshit Penalty Kill, we were fucken dead last in the league up until January. That was a message orchestrated by Phillip Danault, the impending crisis of our healthcare systems collapsing. Think about it, the opposing team had 5 players and we had 4 and that forced collapses and goals. That was a metaphor that our nurses, doctors and various healthcare workers will be overrun by Covid-19 sufferers.
Need another one? How about that woeful pitiful event of getting swept by the Detroit Red Wings? Statistically and practically, they were the easiest team to beat. But in reality? Catastrophic failure. That was a metaphor for not doing the simplest of things leading to catastrophic consequences. Think about lockdowns and good hygiene, they are simplest of things to help to stop the spread of the Coronavirus. Yet many Governments have not enforced the simplest of preventions and now countries like USA, Italy, Iran and Spain are paying the (Carey) Pri
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Read books by psychiatrist Thomas Szasz if you want to educate yourself about how mental illness is a metaphor for real subjective suffering and experiencing problems in living, and not an actual physical bodily disorder. Mental illness exists like sick jokes exist.
