Question— so how do you know when someone is inventing a symptom / condition / identity vs. earnestly having that condition?
If you could know a person is acting in this way, you could not play along with it.
But isn’t this issue prevalent because the “symptom” is convincing? (I.e. people are convinced that there is harm that might be done, and that ‘being nice’ is the best way to act.
Thanks man!! I don’t think that there’s any easy way to know. If there was, it would probably violate people’s privacy. I’m not even sure if we can 100% know for ourselves! I’m writing to myself as much as anyone else. Can we tell for sure whether we are making a change because it’s pleasurable for us or because it’s the right thing to do? How can we know that we haven’t been taken over by unconscious motivations that we can’t currently see in ourselves?
Another great piece!
Question— so how do you know when someone is inventing a symptom / condition / identity vs. earnestly having that condition?
If you could know a person is acting in this way, you could not play along with it.
But isn’t this issue prevalent because the “symptom” is convincing? (I.e. people are convinced that there is harm that might be done, and that ‘being nice’ is the best way to act.
Thanks man!! I don’t think that there’s any easy way to know. If there was, it would probably violate people’s privacy. I’m not even sure if we can 100% know for ourselves! I’m writing to myself as much as anyone else. Can we tell for sure whether we are making a change because it’s pleasurable for us or because it’s the right thing to do? How can we know that we haven’t been taken over by unconscious motivations that we can’t currently see in ourselves?