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【Translation】You Are Mentally Ill Vs. You Have a Mental Illness: Knowing the Difference | Tales of Manic Depression

来源: blogs.psychcentral.com       作者:ERICA LOBERG     你是什么或你有什么。它们之间有什么区别?对你及我们生活的世界究竟意味着什么?人们怎样回应那些表述精神疾病的语言?你有什么与你是什么之间有什么差别?比如说,我被诊断有II型双向障碍。有些人会说"哦,你有躁狂抑郁症。"或是"哦,你是躁狂抑郁症。"最近,我开始思考这两种相近措辞之间的细微差异。人们说你是什么的时候,更倾向于对你定义。你倾向于把自己看作疾病,尽管它只是你许多特质之一。当说你有什么的时候,暗示着除了你的精神疾病之外,你还有许多的其它的特质;不对你定义歧视。当你说你是什么的时候,你可能忽视了可能并没有这回事的事实。你的精神疾病只是你的一部分,而不是你的所有。它并不能定义你。 记住:无论别人怎么评价你或称呼你,无论你的精神诊断是什么,它都只是你的一个方面。人类是非常复杂的,包含很多随个人体验而不停变化的人格特质。具体来说,承受的精神疾病之苦带来的变化,不可能让你成为一个精神健康世界之外人群所无法理解的精神病人。因此,简单来说,你是精神疾病只是一个方便的头衔。当你说你是一个病人时,这就阻止人们接受关于精神健康的教育,可能会导致你把定义为病人。记住这些,并注意他人的措辞。成为什么和拥有什么之间大有差异。明白这点差异可以帮你理解精神健康体验,帮你意识到当别人说你是什么只会加重孤独感,增加其烙印,并妨碍了社会群体学习精神健康的能力。 不得不说的是,无论你是否是精神病者,每个人都有点什么,但没有人是什么。 You Are Mentally Ill Vs. You Have a Mental Illness: Knowing the Difference | Tales of Manic Depression From: blogs.psychcentral.com       By: ERICA LOBERG     You are something or you have something. What is the difference and what does that mean to you and the world we live in? How do people

【Traditional Chinese rituals】Get rid of ghost in Chinese way

My grandma told me she sensed a soul of past people staying in my body, and then she ignited several(there plus one) incense sticks to draw the god's attention, asked many questions about the soul and its requirement to leave while using many sticks as sign of answer. Four dishes and ten Dajin (a kind of processed paper, which is used as money in the past world) are required, and we should send it 50 steps to the west.     We held the ritual at about 11pm to avoid meeting other people. Requirements of the ritual: several censers, incense sticks, ten Dajin, many dishes( seven this time, attention: no meat if your family god are Buddha), a mental basin to burn the paper, many chopsticks, several bowls of water, a knife, one red clothe each person. Ignite the incense sticks in front of the gods, put on the dishes and a bowl of water. My family enshrine all gods in the world, Kwan-yin (the Buddha named Avalokitesvara in Sanskrit), and Chairman Mao. We do not have the tabernacl