NOT THE SHARPEST KNIFE IN THE DRAWER

Hello:

On more than one occasion I have mentioned that when it comes to this internet technology, I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer. This next story proves that comment in spades. 

When I first started writing a blog and joined google+ I would check my email to see if anyone was responding to my posts.   I never saw any such responses.

Recently I decided to click unto the icons for social media at the top of my email inbox page. There I became aware that many people had responded to my Posts or comments without me realizing it. Please accept my apology for failing to understand that I should have accessed the social media icons long ago.

If any of you are willing to do so, I would be more than pleased to answer any of your questions or comments about previous Posts that I have entered

PROS & CONS

Hello:


When Sigmund Freud put forward his ideas about potty training being so instrumental in determining human behavior, he acted like those ideas represented the gospel truth.   We now know that in almost all cases, they were wrong.

The following ideas are conjecture on my part and although I believe that they represent the truth, I cannot prove that such a conclusion is the absolute truth.  You must take this into account when reading the following words.

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Bi-polar disorder concerns the problem of an individual being overly depressed at one point and then [manic] or overly excited the next.   Rather than being a genetic malfunction that must be treated with some kind of mind-altering drug, I believe that it is a behavioral problem.

After failing at a number of achievements, the sufferer of this dilemma who is either called manic depressive or bi-polar, gives up under the assumption that whatever he or she tries will end up in failure.

The medication of choice for such people helps to release serotonin into the bloodstream which acts as a motivator for the person who is severely depressed.  

However once that person comes out of his or her depression, perhaps as a result of the inclusion of more serotonin; the natural flow of serotonin is then augmented by the serotonin from the medication.

I strongly suspect that the normal incidence of restraint inside such a person's mind is altered in a negative way so that these individuals sometimes do things that they would normally not do without the extra serotonin in their bloodstreams.   

Unfortunately one of these extra things that they do can be to go ahead and commit suicide when normally their instincts would tell them not to.

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The behavioral model sees these persons as becoming involved in achievements that are more complex than they realize, the consequences of which result in some form of failure.  

Rather than deciding that this failure is due to some genetic flaw in their make-up, they must use the motivating power of the emotion of fear to increase their knowledge about the achievement in question and by doing so, they will increase their chances of success.