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RE: [Splitting and BPD] Today I Learned...
I am definitely interested in watching the videos, so thank you for the link! I've had repeated struggles in my life with people who think only in terms of "black-and-white" and cannot perceive shades of gray. I think such dualistic thinking stems from organized Western religions (which tend to characterize everything as either 100% good ~or~ 100% evil, with no in-between). Or, it might stem from a certain political ideology which adheres to the same rigid, dualistic thinking. At any rate, I think many people in the Western World are taught from a very young age to split, to categorize everything as either 100% black or 100% white, with no shade of gray in-between. In fact, I have often wondered if such black-and-white thinking is a symptom — or perhaps even the very cause, itself — of some emotional/mental distress. Anyway, yeah, coming back to watch the videos later. Big hugs to you! 💖
I note that rather than a particular ideology, the West has been taught since birth to think - or fail to - in this way politically. Orange Man Bad and GEOTUS are both examples of splitting that are currently the dogma of opposing ideologies in America and the West today. It is the enemedia that constantly elicit and enforce these world views, and if one can consider things objectively it is blatantly apparent.
There was a post I read yesterday on studies that showed some folks are suffering a novel anxiety since the Trump presidency began, and they pointed out the extremely disturbing enemedia coverage of Trump, and how that has been just as novel, and correlates quite well with the syndrome. It seems some of us are so deranged by the information we consume that it may even kill us.
Thanks!