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Originally posted by DeathTribble
reply to post by MKULTRA
Thanks for the search, MK. I would just add that in the vast number of these types of "disorders", there is a corollary that basically says "to the point that such behaviors impinge on the person's general well-being", ie becomes a compulsion. I have seen people so obsessed w/ what they eat that by limiting it down to 4 "healthy" foods, they actually become unhealthy. Or, a person could spend so much of their time and energy focused on the need to eat certain foods and thus experience serious anxiety about it that it threatens their well-being.
That said, the DSM is really mostly useful as a billing code bible, the complexity of the human mind is such that rarely does anyone have a textbook case of anything. It can be a useful guide but not much else. Esp. in mental health, choosing the therapist that really "gets you" and wants to aid you in going where you want to go is the key. What diagnosis you get is really secondary in most cases.
Yes working out and getting fit and being healty is ABSOLUTELY like a a full-time job! And just like in a job you often have to plan things in advance, there's nothing obsessive compulsive about that.
I go to the gym and i keep a journal of what I lifted, does that mean that because I plan to change my schedule of which muscle groups I plan on attacking in a month's time I am being obsessive?
Originally posted by nik1halo
As for eating healthily, by now most of us should have a good idea what's good for you and bad for you, although a little label watching is probably a good idea, for hidden nasties in the ingredients.
Originally posted by 27jd
Originally posted by nik1halo
As for eating healthily, by now most of us should have a good idea what's good for you and bad for you, although a little label watching is probably a good idea, for hidden nasties in the ingredients.
Actually, most people don't. You could be eating a food that you have been conditioned to believe is healthy (like grains, dairy, beans, etc.) that have bad proteins that aren't cooked all the way out, and build up causing inflammatory reactions and conditions. If a food cannot be eaten raw (not that it has to be), it's usually not as healthy as you may think.
Originally posted by monkeySEEmonkeyDO
This is just another way the Pharmacutical Industry can market off of our stupidity.
Urban homesteading is a concept that is now sweeping America and other countries who are growing vegetables and raising small livestock in their backyards like they used to do during the wartime where victory gardens were encouraged
Consumers are feeling the pinch and many are turning to planting vegetables in their backyards to cut down on their grocery expense. As per one estimate, 20% more households this year will start vegetable gardening, mostly in their backyards, giving rise to the term recession gardens.
Originally posted by PsychoX42
Just another form of psychological terrorism invented by The Powers That Be in order to inflict war against our free will.