dmitriThu, Sep 10, 2009 Anhedonia is a symptom that actually applies to all enjoyable layers of the reality of the person who experiences it leaving nothing but horrible hollow suffering. It's a condition that goes way beyond any form of productivity boost from being free from distraction.
My idea of things is that psychological "normality" in the consensus definiton is the worst "disorder" that anyone could have. It's a condition that makes someone boring, uncreative, and manipulable. People who identify as "normal" are often seen as tools by the rest, and that includes some very evil people. I think it's a disorder of idealism, though, and I'm sure that everyone whether they deny it in one way or another not lies somewhere on the insanity spectrum, as normality doesn't exist concretely since it's nothing more than an abstract mathematical concept.
Come to know yourself, come to know your flaws, embrace them and work with them, as you are who you are and nothing's going to change that. Otherwise you're going to flounder in mediocrity because you never tried to work with what you got and instead denied your true self. I think that's one of the roots of creativity... The survival mechanism of working within limits towards transcending them.
Anhedonia is a symptom that actually applies to all enjoyable layers of the reality of the person who experiences it leaving nothing but horrible hollow suffering. It's a condition that goes way beyond any form of productivity boost from being free from distraction.
My idea of things is that psychological "normality" in the consensus definiton is the worst "disorder" that anyone could have. It's a condition that makes someone boring, uncreative, and manipulable. People who identify as "normal" are often seen as tools by the rest, and that includes some very evil people. I think it's a disorder of idealism, though, and I'm sure that everyone whether they deny it in one way or another not lies somewhere on the insanity spectrum, as normality doesn't exist concretely since it's nothing more than an abstract mathematical concept.
Come to know yourself, come to know your flaws, embrace them and work with them, as you are who you are and nothing's going to change that. Otherwise you're going to flounder in mediocrity because you never tried to work with what you got and instead denied your true self. I think that's one of the roots of creativity... The survival mechanism of working within limits towards transcending them.
Another article:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/creative-minds-the-links-between-mental-illness-and-creativity-1678929.html
Also, something I put together a while ago:
http://spacecollective.org/dmitri/2833/Schizophrenic-fractalcats-of-the-early-20th-century