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The whole tendency of modern prose is away from concreteness
Politics and the English Language | The Orwell Foundation
So here, at last, is a rule for which diseases we offer sympathy, and which we offer condemnation: if giving condemnation instead of sympathy decreases the incidence of the disease enough to be worth the hurt feelings, condemn; otherwise, sympathize.
Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease — LessWrong
And if something is a real disease, it is socially acceptable (maybe even mandated) to seek medical treatment for it. If it's not a disease, medical treatment gets derided as a "quick fix" or an "abdication of personal responsibility". I have talked to several doctors who are uncomfortable suggesting gastric bypass surgery, even in people for whom it is medically indicated, because they believe it is morally wrong to turn to medicine to solve a character issue.
Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease — LessWrong
The definition of trauma is controversial, but I believe that the essence of trauma is in the disconnection reaction to an event. The event may be an obviously horrific violation such as rape or lobotomy, but a physical violation is not necessary for traumatization. While a child can develop the coping mechanism of inattention in response to an abusive family, I have talked to many young people whose inattention was a coping mechanism in response to their coercive schooling which was oppressive for them. We are traumatized to the extent that the event results in the reaction of disconnection, …
Psychiatry’s Medical Model: How It Traumatizes, Retraumatizes & Perverts Healing - Mad In America
The overt meaning of “news” is “new things”. The kabbalistic meaning of “news” is “the record of how the world undoes human ambitions”.
Unsong