tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33937439.post115851590869914092..comments2023-04-02T00:39:16.640-07:00Comments on Stochasticactus: chronicle of paralysisPeter Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15466530226652452872noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33937439.post-1158888976532930282006-09-21T18:36:00.000-07:002006-09-21T18:36:00.000-07:001. You are not coddled.2. You and the Psychopomp h...1. You are not coddled.<BR/><BR/>2. You and the Psychopomp have in one sense been talking about willfulness. The DBT group leader would say, "Are you willing to get behind your long-term goals? Are you willing to GET willing?"<BR/><BR/>An injunction to "get willing" is to me about as useful as the instruction to "practice equanimity." Or "trying" to pray.<BR/><BR/>I don't know how to get willing. Or anyway I <EM>say</EM> I don't know; I <EM>say</EM> I want to be willing.<BR/><BR/>How do I want the things I want to want, or say I want to want? How do I get willing to experience all this, even <EM>this,</EM> afresh, instead of through the murk of an identity which has accrued to me over decades, making of my psychopathology an entertaining literary device and personal eccentricity.<BR/><BR/>I not only don't believe what I or anyone else says, I don't even believe what we <EM>do</EM>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com