Nobody is sane, but why complain?

Respecting your imperfections?

The Bible says in 2 Timothy 1:7, “God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.”

I'm not trying to preach to anyone
But this post is about power

The ability to overcome your weaknesses
Through a stronger faith in your blessed self

If you considered yourself a blessed person

And what does this post have to do with these sexual lifestyles?

TPE
Total Power Exchange

The ability to control your own personal energies
And then the ability to exchange and support others

"Play well together in a SSC manner"

All of these Adult Sexual Lifestyles require the ability to control your emotions and enjoy life to the fullest

But it's difficult to deal with everyday struggles of life in general

And in order for anyone to evolve into that degree of adulthood
We first have to respect our imperfections and learn how to adjust our dysfunctions to better suit a productive adulthood

And these lifestyles are not selfish sports

If you are not aware of your own personal actions and reactions
Even if they are learned traits due to conditioning before adulthood

You can not learn how to relate to others enough to enjoy a fruitful adult relationship with anyone
Because you are not aware of your own faults enough to instruct them of your own imperfections
Before they point them out to you and cause conflict

You can not communicate

And communication is the key to any relationship or friendship


Jimi Hendrix
Manic Depression

Lyrics

Manic depression is touching my soul
I know what I want but I just don't know
How to, go about gettin' it
Feeling sweet feeling,
Drops from my fingers, fingers
Manic depression is catchin' my soul

Woman so weary, the sweet cause in vain
You make love, you break love
It's all the same
When it's, when it's over, mama
Music, sweet music
I wish I could caress, caress, caress
Manic depression is a frustrating mess

Well, I think I'll go turn myself off,
And go on down
All the way down
Really ain't no use in me hanging around
In your kinda scene

Music, sweet music
I wish I could caress, caress, caress
Manic depression is a frustrating mess
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They claim that almost every person in at least this country has some form of mental dysfunction or personality disorder

Most are caused by social and cultural dysfunctions and abuse from childhood that becomes learned traits and personality disorders

And as Americans
Our history as a nation divided culturally and spiritually
Has been the cause of a lack of understanding of the vastness of our own individual personal insecurities

So YOU are not able to consider YOURSELF a part of a mental dysfunctional majority
Because nobody else wants to see themselves included in this theory

So the first act of self awareness is to admit that fear is only as great as you respect it

Fear of dysfunction can cause you to defend your weaknesses

Fear is a threat to your own reality
Because it is a emotion
And emotions are caused by learned traits
Conditioned by individual life experiences

Yet there is no bodily organ that creates emotion

The brain is a organ
The mind is the result of conditioning of the brain

Thus
Emotions effect the mental polarity of the mind
Causing a warped sense of reality

And over 78% of this countries population siffer from some form of Bi Polarism

Bipolar Disorder

What is bipolar disorder?

Bipolar disorder is a mental illness that causes extreme mood swings. This condition is also called manic-depressive illness. It may be caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain.

Bipolar disorder sometimes runs in families. If you have a parent who has bipolar disorder, you have a greater chance of having it. Both men and women can have bipolar disorder. People of all ages can have it.

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What are some of the signs of bipolar disorder?

At times, a person who has bipolar disorder may feel very happy, full of energy and able to do anything. The person might not even want to rest when he or she feels this way. This feeling is called mania (say: "may-nee-ah"). At other times, a person who has bipolar disorder may feel very sad and depressed. The person may not want to do anything when he or she feels this way. This is called depression. People with bipolar disorder can quickly go from mania to depression and back again.

Other signs of mania may include the following:

• Feeling very irritable or angry
• Thinking and talking so fast that other people can't follow your thoughts
• Not sleeping at all
• Feeling very powerful and important
• Having trouble concentrating
• Spending too much money
• Abusing alcohol and drugs
• Having sex without being careful to prevent pregnancy or disease

Other signs of depression may include the following:

• No interest or pleasure in things you used to enjoy, including sex
• Feeling sad or numb
• Crying easily or for no reason
• Feeling slowed down, or feeling restless and irritable
• Feeling worthless or guilty
• Change in appetite; unintended change in weight
• Trouble recalling things, concentrating or making decisions
• Headaches, backaches or digestive problems
• Problems sleeping, or wanting to sleep all of the time
• Feeling tired all of the time
• Thoughts about death and suicide

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How is bipolar disorder treated?

Bipolar disorder can be treated by your family doctor. Your family doctor may want you to see a psychiatrist too. You and your doctors will work together to control your mood swings and make sure you stay well.

Bipolar disorder is treated with medicines to stop the mood swings. Mood stabilizers are used to even out highs and lows in your mood. Antidepressant medicine can help reduce the symptoms of depression. Your doctor may add other medicines as you need them. These medicines don't start to work right away, but you will start to notice a difference in your moods after a few weeks. Be sure to take your medicines just as your doctor tells you.

Counseling can help you with stress, family concerns and relationship problems. It's important to get counseling if you have bipolar disorder.

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What can I do to help myself get better?

• Read about bipolar disorder and tell your family what you learn. Your doctor can suggest resources to help you learn more.
• Have a regular routine. Go to bed and wake up at about the same time every day. Eat your meals and exercise at regular times.
• Take your medicine every day, and don't stop taking it even if you start feeling better. Avoid caffeine and over-the-counter medicines for colds, allergies and pain. Ask your doctor before you drink alcohol or use any other medicines.
• Try to avoid stress.
• Learn the early warning signs of your illness. Tell your doctor when you notice changes in your mood or behavior.
• Join a local support group. You and your family can share information and experiences with the support group.

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Other Organizations

• National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
  http://www.nami.org
  Colonial Place Three 2107 Wilson Blvd., Suite 300
  Arlington, VA 22201-3042
  800-950-6264
  
• National Mental Health Association
  http://www.nmha.org
  800-969-NMHA (800-969-6642)
  
• Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
  http://www.dbsalliance.org/
  730 N. Franklin St., Suite 501
  Chicago, IL 60610-7204
  800-826-3632
  

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Source

Written by familydoctor.org editorial staff.

Management of Bipolar Disorder by KS Griswold, M.D., M.P.H. and LF Pessar, M.D. (American Family Physician September 15, 2000, http://www.aafp.org/afp/20000915/1343.html)

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Alternative Names:

Blues; Discouragement; Gloom; Mood changes; Sadness; Melancholy

Considerations:

Depression is generally ranked in terms of severity -- mild, moderate, or severe. The degree of your depression, which your doctor can determine, influences how you are treated. Symptoms of depression include:

• Trouble sleeping or excessive sleeping
• A dramatic change in appetite, often with weight gain or loss
• Fatigue and lack of energy
• Feelings of worthlessness, self-hate, and inappropriate guilt
• Extreme difficulty concentrating
• Agitation, restlessness, and irritability
• Inactivity and withdrawal from usual activities
• Feelings of hopelessness and helplessness
• Recurring thoughts of death or suicide

Low self esteem is common with depression. So are sudden bursts of anger and lack of pleasure from activities that normally make you happy, including sex.

Depressed children may not have the classic symptoms of adult depression. Watch especially for changes in school performance, sleep, and behavior. If you wonder whether your child might be depressed, it's worth bringing to a doctor's attention.

Other common forms of depression include:

• Postpartum depression -- many women feel somewhat down after having a baby, but true postpartum depression is rare.
• Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) -- depressive symptoms occur one week prior to menstruation and disappear after you menstruate.
• Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) -- occurs during the fall-winter season and disappears during the spring-summer season. Likely to be due to lack of sunlight.

Depression may also occur with mania (known as manic-depression or bipolar disorder). In this condition, moods cycle between mania and depression.

Depression is more common in women than men and is especially common during the teen years. Men seem to seek help for feelings of depression less often than women. Therefore, women may only have more documented cases of depression.

Common Causes:

Depression often runs in families. This may due to your genes (inherited), learned behavior, or both. Even if your genes make you more likely to develop depression, a stressful or unhappy life event usually triggers the onset of a depressive episode.

Depression may be brought on by:

• Alcohol or drug abuse
• Childhood events like abuse or neglect
• Chronic stress
• Death of a friend or relative
• Disappointment at home, work, or school (in teens, this may be breaking up with a boyfriend or girlfriend, failing a class, or parents divorcing)
• Drugs such as sedatives and high blood pressure medications
• Medical conditions such as hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid), cancer, or hepatitis
• Nutritional deficiencies (such as a lack of folate and omega-3 fatty acids)
• Overly negative thoughts about one's self and life, self blame, and ineffective social problem solving skills
• Prolonged pain or having a major illness
• Sleeping problems
• Social isolation (common in the elderly)

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Why is all this information important?

"There is nothing to fear but fear it's self"

Fear is an emotional response to tangible and realistic dangers. Fear should be distinguished from anxiety, an emotion that often arises out of proportion to the actual threat or danger involved, and can be subjectively experienced without any specific attention to the threatening object.

Most fear is usually connected to pain (e.g., some fear heights because if they fall, they may suffer severe injury or even die upon landing). Behavioral theorists, like Watson and Ekman, have suggested that fear is one of several very basic emotions (e.g., joy and anger). Fear is a survival mechanism, and usually occurs in response to a specific negative stimulus.

Varieties

Serious fear is a response to some formidable impending peril, while trifling fear arises from confrontation with inconsequential danger.

Fear can be described by different terms in accordance with its relative degrees. Personal fear varies extremely in degree from mild caution to extreme phobia and paranoia. Fear is related to a number of emotional states including worry, anxiety, terror, fright, paranoia, horror, panic (social and personal), persecution complex and dread.

Fears may be a factor within a larger social network, wherein personal fears are synergetically compounded as mass hysteria.

• Paranoia is a term used to describe a psychosis of fear, described as a heightened perception of being persecuted, false or otherwise. This degree of fear often indicates that one has changed their normal behavior in radical ways, and may have become extremely compulsive. Sometimes, the result of extreme paranoia is a phobia.

• Distrust in the context of interpersonal fear, is sometimes explained as the inward feeling of caution, usually focused towards a person, representing an unwillingness to trust in someone else. Distrust is not a lack of faith or belief in someone, but a feeling of warning towards someone or something questionable or unknown. For example, one may "distrust" a stranger who acts in a way that is perceived as "odd." Likewise one may "distrust" the safety of a rusty old bridge across a 100 ft drop.

• Terror refers to a pronounced state of fear - which usually occurs before the state of horror - when someone becomes overwhelmed with a sense of immediate danger. Also, it can be caused by perceiving the (possibly extreme) phobia. As a consequence, terror overwhelms the person to the point of making irrational choices and non-typical behavior.

Fear can also affect the subconscious and unconscious mind, most notably through nightmares.

Fear can also be imagined, and the side effects can also be imagined.

Fear is the flip side of anger in the inbuilt human 'fight or flight' response.

Many people feel the effects of fear on a day to day basis in the workplace through the stress of a modern working environment. This fear has a direct correlation to one's working efficiency and has been crystallised into a chart through an ongoing linear study in Bristol. The fear-o-meter shows the range of emotions caused by the latent fear that a significant workload and impending deadline can create. Whilst one's ability to work effectively diminishes as the level of fear increases, productivity on the other hand increases exponentially as the impending deadline approaches. For example, a student might fail to start an essay until the level of fear reaches 5 or above, choosing to either go out or perform menial tasks until the fear has increased to the required level.

1. Satisfaction
2. Ennui
3. Despondency
4. Anxiety
5. Fear / Vexed
6. Despair / Anger
7. Apathy / Rage
8. Terror / Apoplectic

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As adults
We deserve more out of life than what many of us have right now

Many of us seek these sexual lifestyles
Many others seek a more simpler productive vanilla lifestyle

We all seek the ability to enjoy a fruitful relationship of some sort

But in America there are more single adults than ever before in the history of this country
Meaning?

More single adults fear commitment of some sort
And lack the ability to find more stable partners

More single adults fear being able to trust each other
And lack the ability to find more faith in their mates

More single adults fear being able to play well with others
And lack the ability to respect each other as single adults

More single adults fear living their lives single and alone
And lack the ability to offer each other more self respect

More single adults fear never being understood by others
And lack the ability to control their own reality


And many of you are unable to change
Because you fear being mentally dysfunctional


And you are not alone
Just too lonely to understand why you are the way you are now

And only the people on the outside of your own head can see who you really are
And they can not help you
Until you first help yourself


But you first have to ask yourself this question

"Are you a idiot?"
"uneducated or ignorant person."

"Idiot" was originally created to refer to "layman, person lacking professional skill", "person so mentally deficient as to be incapable of ordinary reasoning"

"Idiots" were seen as having bad judgment in public and political matters. Over time, the term "idiot" shifted away from its original connotation of selfishness and came to refer to individuals with overall bad judgment–individuals who are "stupid"

"Are you ignorant?"

Ignorance is the condition of being uninformed or uneducated, lacking knowledge or information.

willful ignorance

1. (idiomatic), also called vincible ignorance is a bad faith decision to avoid becoming informed about something so as to avoid having to make undesirable decisions that such information might prompt.

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Let's keep it real with each other

We can't keep it real with each other because we can not be more real about who and how we really are to ourselves

And if you fool yourself into believing that you are who and how you are?
Whoever you wish to relate too can only relate to who and whatever they learn you to really be like to them as well as yourself
From the outside of your own mental reality

And as Americans
We have had a hard time growing into whoever we are today

And we have come a long way in the history of this country
And it has not been as simple as many of you would wish to think

Even my favorite Domme said it best:

SECRETARY RICE: Good morning. I'm pleased today to join Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky and Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Barry Lowenkron as we announce the publication of the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2006.

These congressionally mandated annual reports speak to America's continued support for those fundamental freedoms embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Our country was born in the belief that all people, regardless of race, creed, or culture are free by nature and equal in dignity; that when given a truly unfettered choice, human beings will choose liberty over oppression, the natural right to life over the constant fear of death, the right to own property over random search and seizure, and that they will choose to be ruled by the consent of the governed, not by the coercion of the state.

These basic rights should be the source of justice in every society and the basis for peace among states. Too often in the past year, we received painful reminders that human rights, though self-evident, are not self-enforcing and that mankind's desire to live in freedom, though universally deserved, is still not universally respected. Liberty and human rights require state institutions that function transparently and accountably, a vibrant civil society, an independent judiciary and legislature, a free media, and security forces that can uphold the rule of law and protect the population from violence and extremism.

With the release of this year's reports we are recommitting ourselves to help new democracies deliver on their people's aspirations for a better life. We are recommitting ourselves to stand with those courageous men and women who struggle for their freedom and their rights. And we are recommitting ourselves to call every government to account that still treats the basic rights of its citizens as options rather than, in President Bush's words, the non-negotiable demands of human dignity.

We do not issue these reports because we think ourselves perfect, but rather because we know ourselves to be deeply imperfect, like all human beings and the endeavors that they make. Our democratic system of governance is accountable, but it is not infallible. We are nonetheless guided by enduring ideals: the inalienable rights of humankind and the principles of democracy toward which all people and all governments must continue striving. And that includes us here in America.

We hope that these reports will be a source of information for governments and societies everywhere and a source of inspiration for all who are still working for peaceful democratic change around the globe.

We are all just imperfect human beings

We must first define and understand our imperfections
All of them

Keep it more real with ourselves first
Truthful

And the truth is:

"We are worth nothing to anyone else until we are worth more to our own selves."

"The truth will set us free"

"We have to be more truthful as to who we are and are not as of yet"

If fear is the only thing that keeps us from being better people?

Then maybe we first have to stop fearing being more blessed than we give ourselves credit for being able to be right now

" The Bible says in 2 Timothy 1:7, “God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.” "

Learn your imperfections
And then respect them
Change what you can
And do not excuse what you can/will not out of fear

Fear is dangerous to our spirit
Our soul


Never fear being more imperfect than you think you know you are right now

If you want more out of your blessed life




Without self-knowledge, we cannot go beyond the mind.
—J. Krishnamurti

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