BEING MADE CRAZY, CRAZY, STAYING CRAZY or AWARE OF CRAZINESS AND SEEKING SANITY

 

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BEING MADE CRAZY, CRAZY, STAYING CRAZY or AWARE OF CRAZINESS AND SEEKING SANITY

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“Insanity is universal. Sanity is rare. Yet there is hope because the moment we perceive our insanity, we are on the way to sanity.”

--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“This is the function of the Guru - to make us see the madness of our daily living.”

--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Be empty of all mental content, of all imagination and effort, and the very absence of obstacles will cause reality [and Reality] to rush in.”

--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

A.    ORIGINALLY SANE

B.     GOING CRAZY

Now

C.    GOING . . . GOING . . .

Contributors to Insanity: Personality, Personality Traits and Personality Disorders

Consider a teen male - or two female sisters on another occasion - who had begun “cutting” and who had also begun to speak of suicide. Conscientious and wise therapists know that treating a child with any kind of mental or emotional or personality disorder must involve “a family approach” when possible.

Some therapists have shared that many parents prefer to drop off their child for counseling rather than be an active participant. Why?

1. The parents have likely not been active participants in the child’s life thus far so they are not likely to suddenly agree to be an active participant is the child’s treatment;

2. many parents are so trapped in ego and egotism that they refuse to accept any responsibility. (“Why should I be there? He / She is the one with the problem.”)

In the case of the teen mentioned above, the mother has a severe case of Borderline Personality Disorder which she refuses to admit. She has normalized and minimized all of her insane behavior.

The mother’s focus is not on her or her son’s mental and emotional sick state but is focused on trying to lock in a relationship with a much older wealthy man who is suffering from Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder and the Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

(Both he and the mother deny that is his circumstance); thus, for the most part, the teen has been left to his own devices. The biological father suffers a full-blown case of the Addictive Personality Disorder and  the Antisocial Personality Disorder / Sociopathic Personality Disorder.

Some are shocked that an intelligent young male would be showing signs of self-harm and suicide at his age, but when you see the disorders being evidenced regularly by the three adults that he is having to deal with, where is the shock or the surprise?

The point is that when the Borderline Personality Disorder manifests, it affects not only the one with the disorder but all others who are around that person. Most personality disorders are progressive illnesses, but because BPD is becoming so commonplace and is so serious a disorder, these additional tell-tale signs will be shared:

Borderline Personality Disorder is a condition in which people have long-term patterns of unstable or turbulent emotions, such as feelings about themselves and others which are in constant flux (as in “I hate you; no wait, I love you”);

their inner experiences often cause them to take impulsive actions and have chaotic relationships;

the causes are unknown but may include genetic, family, and social factors;

those who are most likely to suffer from this disorder may have also suffered from:

abandonment in childhood or adolescence (and more often than not, that does not mean the parents were not there but means that they were “emotionally-unavailable”);

a disrupted family life;

poor communication in the family; and

sexual abuse.

This personality disorder tends to occur more often in women and among hospitalized psychiatric patients;

people with BPD are often uncertain about their identity;

as a result, they may adopt many false personas as identities or enter into a life-long search to try to find an identity that they can be “comfortable with”;

the lack of identity also causes their interests and values and likes and dislikes to change rapidly;

their views of other people may change quickly, so in one case a man went home after a date with a BPD and was sure that he was being loved unconditionally and that the love he was being shown would surely last forever;

however, he was soon told by the BPD the next day that she never wanted to see him again (and the strangest part of  the scenario was that the night before she would have also believed and said that she was going to love him forever), yet the shifts can come that quickly;

therefore, a person who is looked up to (or “upgraded” or even idealized) one day may be looked down on (or totally “downgraded”) the next day by a BPD;

such suddenly-shifting feelings often lead to intense and unstable relationships;

BPD’s tend to see things in terms of dualistic extremes, such as either all good or all bad;

fear being abandoned;

often feel a depressing or even overwhelming sense of emptiness and boredom;

are capable of showing frequent displays of inappropriate anger;

can be impulsiveness with money, substance abuse, sexual relationships, binge eating, or shoplifting;

can be intolerant of being alone (but, ironically, claim that they want to be with someone and have a long-term relationship, which they are seldom capable of);

will experience repeated crises;

will experience significant mood swings, depression, and - often - several other disorders alongside this condition;

those disorders will result in their being narcissistic, obsessive, compulsive, addictive, dependent, passive-aggressive, and self-defeating;

they may also reveal evidence of either the Cyclothymic Personality Disorder and / or even the Bipolar Personality Disorder.

if not treated, then their depression will be magnified, they may turn to abuse of alcohol or drugs or other addictions, they will have problems in relationships, they will be unable to accept the challenges of working for someone else, they may attempt suicide, or they may actually commit suicide.

To be continued.

Please enter into the silence of contemplation.

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Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "god," the "Son of god," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns.

THE EXPLANATION

If looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.

Meaning? There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept of god in the past was of a weak god, an absentee god, A Santa Claus-type god, a mean, punishing, vindictive god, etc. Today, I am in close contact with a loving and caring god whom I worship and praise and glorify and give thanks to."

The reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a god that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").

Next, in the phrase 'loving and caring god,' any supposed god that truly had her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part of that phrase is 'god' and that the only part that is relevant is the "loving and caring" part.

"That is, a non-narcissistic their god / their goddess would say, "I care not an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'god' and focus on the 'god as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you." 

Yeshu'a (Jesus) and Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis were spot on:

"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and earth shall fade away."

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and hell are not geographic places

but are states of mind, nothing more than

concepts dreamed up by men."

--Pope John Paul II 

"There is no hell."

--Pope Francis, the current pope

in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,

a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record

teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.

[That said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to reject a core concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional courage required to question the very existence of their institution in light of the centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of billions of their members past and present.

And that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will they? Not likely. Why?

Because what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the international crime families which hold sway over the masses as criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major international crime families and which are the most influential and have the largest memberships?

The Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers) whose Vatican Bank worked for decades with the Mafia while laundering mob earnings (for a 15% all-profit charge by the Bank); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers) like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)

With all of those crime families, neither the followers nor the leadership ever voluntarily step down or shut down their criminal activities. Be they gangs, organized crime families, religions, big business, politicians, etc., they all want control and they all want power and they all want money, and nothing internal will interfere with the driving forces at play.

The masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.] 

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