Do people create their own mental problems?!
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Do people create their own mental problems?
Like O.C.D.As a kid I had a big imagination, so I always believed that slides took you to another world when you went down, and you had to climb back up to return.Eventually it turned obsesive and I would count how often I went down the slide and would always HAVE to climb back up(even after school). Then I realized it was stupid and stopped. Then in my teens I would get depressed and once scratched my arms and thighs until they bled one night. I felt so pathetic for doing such a stupid thing and wallowing in my despair that I stopped, even when life is hard I never let it overwehm me anymore. I was also very shy and fearful, then decided that is not the person I wanted to be and stopped. So do people create their own mental problems? I understand that some are based on chemical inbalances, but can't some just be because of lack of the will to change. Of taking the easy way out and declaring yourself mentally unfit, needing meds, and blaming everything in your life on your "disease"?
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Holy good ****, didn't feel like reading a novel at this time...sorry