Have you ever met anyone who had an incurable or chronic illness, and they just knew everything there was to know about
that illness? I mean like it's only natural, if the doctor tells you that you have Lou Gherig's Disease, that you're going
to go find out all you can about it and what causes it and how to treat it and what you can do about it, so that every snot-nosed
little kid who walks up to you and says "Why do you walk so funny?" you can just say "Because my cellular endocrines
don't marticulate their globular peptides the way yours do, Johnny."
O man, I would totally hate to work my ass off my whole life to become one of the greatest baseball players in history,
only to be remembered for dying of some weird-ass disease that I couldn't help. But anyway......
So you have some weird disease, or maybe your kid or your brother does, and you become an expert on that disease. It's
kind of like during the Cold War, America sent spies to Russia and Russia sent spies here, so we could know all there was
to know about one another so that we could kill each other better.
Or say some kid got some bad milk in the school cafeteria and died. You just know that the mom is going to form an organization
whose initials spell a word, and do commercials where she quotes statistics on bad school cafeteria milk.
It happens all the time. It's because people like to believe that there are reasons for things. And maybe there really
are. Maybe you go to a children's cancer ward and all the kids there say they want to be doctors, well, maybe someday that's
where a cure for cancer is going to come from. I don't really know and I'm not going to guess.
All I'm saying is that it happens, and it happens all the time, to people with diseases, or victims of violent crime,
or even just accidents.
This is why you should be careful when you pick a therapist, or psychologist, because most of them are crazy.
I mean, they start off crazy, and they know they're crazy, and they suffer for it. So they want to make a difference
and help out people who are like them. But in this case, there's more to it than just that.
I'll explain. I have lots of time.
Have you ever met a hypochondriac? Have you ever seen one with a medical journal? It's not pretty. I mean, a hypochondriac
is always imagining symptoms, but a medical journal seems to give them lots of new symptoms to imagine, and helps them arrange
these imaginary symptoms into all kinds of imaginary self-diagnoses.
But it's not the same with psychology. Because when someone even slightly unstable starts to imagine that they're paranoid,
pretty soon they're paranoid. Imagining that you have Mad Cow Diseasewon't give you Mad Cow Disease, but when you imagine
that you're delusional, well....isn't that what delusional means?
OK, so what if your doctor imagines that he has cancer? So what if he even really does have cancer? That's not going
to necessarilly affect how he treats your cancer. But I would think that being crazy would definitely affect how
you diagnose and treat other crazy people.
Why do you think Psychiatric Associations never endorse political candidates? Because most of them can't vote.
If you still really don't believe me, go to a support group for any kind of paranoia or depression or mania, and as around
and see how many folks there are studying psychology.
Therapists and psychologists are like, mildly crazy. Psychiatrists are completely insane.
Here would be a fun experiment, and at the same time it can help verify my theory. If someone sees a therapist or pfychologist
or whatever, they can present this theory to them and act like they came up with it on their own:
