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TOP TEN WARNING SIGNS OF WHAT IS CALLED "NORMAL"
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by Janet Foner
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Support Coalition co-coordinator & psychiatric survivor
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10. COOL: You're cool, you hold everything in and always put "a
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good face on it" -- you never cry or laugh much, or show emotion
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in any way, certainly not in public. Your psychiatric label is
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"tearlessnicity."
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9. SERIOUS: You always do the proper thing -- never anything
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unusual, playful, spontaneous, "different," wild, or creative, if
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you can help it. You believe playing and being silly is beneath
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your dignity and only for children. You have a psychiatric label
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of "stiff upper lippity."
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8. NICE: You always act nice even if you can't stand the person
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to whom you're talking. You never say what you're really
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thinking. Your diagnosis: "inappropriate smiling."
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7. ALWAYS RIGHT: You always do everything right -- wear the
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"right clothes," say the "right thing," associate only with the
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"right people"-- you know there is only one right way, and it's
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your way. You are diagnosed as "conformity prone."
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6. BORING: Your conversations, life and living space are dull
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and boring, and your lawn is always manicured no matter what. In
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the more advanced stages you have much inner "lifelessness" and
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"flat affect" -- in other words, you are one of the "walking
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dead." Your psychiatric label is "hyperinactivity."
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5. OBEDIENT: You always try not to offend anyone, especially
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those in authority -- your security seems to depend on that. So
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therefore you are willing to put expediency ahead of principles.
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Your psychiatric label is "adjustment prone/adjustment reaction."
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4. GULLIBLE: You believe that the doctor always knows best, that
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the media is telling the truth (major newspapers always print the
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facts, right?), and that the medical model of "mental illness"
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has been proven scientifically. Your diagnosis is "normal naivete
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disorder."
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3. AVOID FEELINGS: You are out of touch with yourself, with the
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natural world, and with what is going on with other people. It
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has become too hard to face how others are being oppressed, so
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you choose a more comfortable path. TV starts to look very, very
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good. You are labelled with "severe blinderitis."
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2. DON'T TRUST YOURSELF: You learned in school that it's
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important to always pay attention to those in charge and not to
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trust your own thinking. You learned to "play the game," and you
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are still doing that. You believe your own lies. You have an
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advanced case of "schoolmania," which, if not stopped in its
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early stages can lead to severe overwork and, in advanced stages,
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"corporate asskissingitis."
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1. INDOORISM: You lost touch with the wildness in nature. You do
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not rebel against ecological destruction. Label: "Tame."
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DON'T PANIC!
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If you have two or more of these signs, within any lunar cycle,
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you probably only have "residual normality." No case of 100%
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normality has ever been discovered. So it's not too late! Join
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SCI, read Dendron News, support one another, get out into nature,
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and especially take action to stop psychiatric oppression before
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serious persistent "normality" sets in.
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Heal Normality Naturally!
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Join the Heal Normality campaign! SUBSCRIBE to the free HEALNORM
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mailing list. Here's how:
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Send e-mail to "majordomo@efn.org" with just the words "subscribe
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HEALNORM" in the message body.
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Snail-mail: Support Coalition / POB 11284 / Eugene, OR 97440-3484
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U.S.A. Membership is at least $15. Sample $2. Add extra if
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outside U.S.A.
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NORMALS ARE DESTROYING EARTH!
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