I Wasn't In Any Way

It Is Slightly Chilling To Realize There Are Rational, Functional People Up There Employed To Spot, Nurture, And Exploit Those Down Here Among Us Who Are Irrational And Can Barely Cope. If You Want To Know How Stupid You’re Perceived To Be By The People Up There, Count The Unsolicited Junk Mail You Receive. If You Get A Lot, You’re Perceived To Be Alluringly Stupid.

I Have Thought Sometimes That The Sanest People, The People Who Are Just Very Balanced, Very Happy, Are Probably Lower Achieving Than Other People. My Kind Of Irrationality Happens To Be Fear Or Anxiety.

I Heard A Story About Her Once,' Said James. 'she Was Interviewing A Psychopath. She Showed Him A Picture Of A Frightened Face And Asked Him To Identify The Emotion. He Said He Didn't Know What The Emotion Was But It Was The Face People Pulled Just Before He Killed Them.

Sometimes Labeling Is Only Useful, Like With Ocd. Once You're Labeled You Can Be Treated. On Other Occasions Labeling Leads To Tyranny, Like With Childhood Bipolar Disorder In The U.s.

On Social Media There's This Thing Where On Many Occasions, There's A Single Proscribed Way Of Acting. Like If Somebody Dies, Everyone Has To Say "r.i.p.! R.i.p.!" Basically They're Saying, "don't Hurt Me, I'm A Good Person."