The best way to empower ourselves is to recognize how influence able we are.
In spite of our professed values and beliefs, our sense of what is normal
and desirable usually changes depending on the social setting we spend most time in.
I've heard people say that before they took up shooting heroin, they had
spent a lot of time with friends who were slamming dope. By hanging around
active junkies, the needle and the rest of the process lost its terror and came to seem not scary...then seemed to be companionable.
Or as they said in the old days, lie down with the wrong dog and you'll get up with fleas.
Here is an example from medicine - eating disorders.
[www.scienceofeds.org]
In spite of our professed values and beliefs, our sense of what is normal
and desirable usually changes depending on the social setting we spend most time in.
I've heard people say that before they took up shooting heroin, they had
spent a lot of time with friends who were slamming dope. By hanging around
active junkies, the needle and the rest of the process lost its terror and came to seem not scary...then seemed to be companionable.
Or as they said in the old days, lie down with the wrong dog and you'll get up with fleas.
Here is an example from medicine - eating disorders.
[www.scienceofeds.org]
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As any inpatient will tell you, a specialist unit is the best place to learn how to be really, really good at anorexia.
They also breed their own subculture. Some patients have reported bullying and intimidation by the hard-core cases. If they eat anything at all, they’re called fat cows’ (Rice, 2004).
Vandereycken refers to ‘a most interesting blog’ post
[www.greythinking.com]