Gretchen Thunberg´s Diagnosis and the Obnoxious

" do like Greta Thunberg" Do you mean attend a school for the children with mental retardation? ***

− Yes, indeed, Holy Man! All the "retards" that have made it possible to advance from ancient Greece and Rome, as Christianity rose and transformed those cultural ashes in the spiritually diligent like St. Anthony of the Desert and invading "barbarian tribes," that have made the Indian and interfaith Hindu Gandhi the ace modern "retard" champion of Christian high integrity. Fortunately for you, such language is so much hot air for constructive poetic justice, while your crassness is revealed for the projection fallacy that it is and the psychoanalytic childhood trauma that haunts you. In all your attempts to redirect your hurt, pain, and tears from a dysfunctional family upbinging, the healthy vocabulary of emotional self-awareness and intelligent self-management simply elude you in your habitual psychological defense mechanisms. Gretchen, actually, already transcended the very dubious limited context of that medical diagnosis. Her actual precocious brilliance as a youth prodigy has led her as she convinced her parents and has spoken with a passion in key events in the public interest. Freethinking and highly trained professionals have long recognized the inadequacy of psychiatric labels and treatment, as with Fromm, Laing, and others mentioned in the OP. You, however, appear to have emotional blocks that make being obnoxious and using ad-homs your MO, and demonstrating as usual the nature of projection. It is your own unacknowledged feelings and self-esteem complex that you project. Adler talked about the inferiority complex, Jung about the shadow, and Bradshaw about "healing the shame that binds you." Not that you are able to let you guard down for a minute. But it´s not Gretchen that´s eating the dust you´re kicking up. ***

I have recently taken preliminary tests that show I am autistic, along with everything else that’s me I have to thank Greta for being what I am not. She isn’t sick, she’s normal. I hope you all get that. She is F-ing normal!

Perspective is a huge issue, and society´s own dysfunction is no joke. My dad was a well-rounded political scientist, and I had an early start recognizing education as a value. That included Psychology. I was able to get by with a little bit of Marx, Freud, Maslow, Subliminal Seduction by W B Key, a critical letter about the US Contras in Nicaragua (at the time), until in college I flirted with Dem Socialists of America, the Outdoors Club, Taoism and Zen, a little therapy, self-help books and workshops, and the like, until I worked with the PIRG´s a bit (Ralph Nader´s legacy), and so on. Thus, I know how you feel, and totally recommend tapping into authentic values up and down. Every psychiatric diagnosis is subject to a second opinion, and Clinical Psychology in general is more sane than pharmacological psychiatry. John Mack MD at Harvard helped found Ecopsychology, while Bruce Levine and Ann W Schaef have written powerful books as Psychologists like BL´s Resisting Illegitimate Authority and AWS´s When Society Becomes an Addict. Be well. Raise Hell. Discreetly, as necessary. With a food co-op membership if possible, practicing yoga and tai chi perhaps, or sipping organic, Fair Trade tea and lemon, say. ***

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mha8IQe7YtI ***

So younger people are supposed to eschew all new technology and trends? Also literally anything in those amazon boxes is going to be more useful to a new mom than some incense and rocks. ***

That s a rather defensive take, as if there is no questioning modern trends, and no spiritual life and values provide wisdom and insights. Gretchen Thunberg showed that a precocious child prodigy like herself can overcome the very questionable assumptions of a psychiatric diagnosis without even getting a second opinion from a doctor member of the Climate Psychiatry Alliance like Lise Van Susteren MD. Her mom, by the way, shifted her career due to her daughter´s clarity and concerns. Louise Hay cured her cancer, no less, by refusing doctors intent upon surgery and pursuing self-care as she shares in her book You Can Heal Your Life. In six months her docs agreed that she had no more cancer. The Simonton Clinic has a related approach. Gretchen means Green.