Is the Therapeutic Worldview Tenable?
Therapy and addiction- two words that have captivated the modern world's outlook on human disorder. Now we have a new "disorder"- Internet Addiction Disorder. I do not hold to this idea because I think that once we start putting human follies and actions at the level of disorder, then everyone is addicted and no one is held responsible. Will our society hold that because a man died after spending fifty hours on his computer playing an online game that anyone who spends more than a few hours online is addicted? Or can we say that perhaps because we have a computer in our room that we are simlpy drawn to its enticements? What if we had no choice but to stay outdoors all day? I think it is pretty sure that most of us would just adapt to what is given to us. Now I hold that spending too much time on the Internet is not a good thing, but addiction is not the word for it.
If man had a greater sense of the fact that some of his follies are from his sense of laziness or unwillingness, we would see a lot more money saved in therapeutic expenses. We are simply saying that every idiosyncracy is an "illness" that must be treated in order that we may become "normal"- whatever that means. Now I know that I said earlier that I have asperger's syndrome. Am I really right? I don't know for sure. But I can say that some of my own shortcomings are not the results of mental illness. I think we need to sometimes give ourselves a good kick in the pants every now and then.
Therapy and addiction- two words that have captivated the modern world's outlook on human disorder. Now we have a new "disorder"- Internet Addiction Disorder. I do not hold to this idea because I think that once we start putting human follies and actions at the level of disorder, then everyone is addicted and no one is held responsible. Will our society hold that because a man died after spending fifty hours on his computer playing an online game that anyone who spends more than a few hours online is addicted? Or can we say that perhaps because we have a computer in our room that we are simlpy drawn to its enticements? What if we had no choice but to stay outdoors all day? I think it is pretty sure that most of us would just adapt to what is given to us. Now I hold that spending too much time on the Internet is not a good thing, but addiction is not the word for it.
If man had a greater sense of the fact that some of his follies are from his sense of laziness or unwillingness, we would see a lot more money saved in therapeutic expenses. We are simply saying that every idiosyncracy is an "illness" that must be treated in order that we may become "normal"- whatever that means. Now I know that I said earlier that I have asperger's syndrome. Am I really right? I don't know for sure. But I can say that some of my own shortcomings are not the results of mental illness. I think we need to sometimes give ourselves a good kick in the pants every now and then.


1 Comments:
Do you know if there's an Internet Pornography Annonymous? 'Cause I think I'm addicted to that.
As for your improved writing style, I give it an A+!
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