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guitarbuddha -> RE: Borderline Personality (May 11 2013 10:10:42)
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Hi Stephen, I worked as a music therapist in an acute mental health ward in Glasgow's east end.
I felt strangely at home.
I have to say I really enjoyed the people and we had some good times. One day a woman who was mostly catatonic suddenly started telling us her life story. I stopped the little blues shuffle I was playing .... and she stopped too. So I gently picked it up and off she went, for ages. And it was blinding man. Me and the whole group really really loved it.
There was no singing just her stream of consciousness and words tumbling out and out of control and melding themselves magically to the form.
I had a quite a few humbling moments like that. In fact perhaps the most valuable thing, to me personally, about that experience was the realisation that pretty much everyone is as musical as they will let themselves be. And me no more so than them.
It is a shame that, for some of them, music was something that they only explore heavily medicated and in true distress. But it was a privilege for me to be amongst them in those times.
Thanks Stephen for reminding me of it, I haven't done that kind of thing for a while.
PS I understand that there is a movement to define narcissism such that it explains, to people (who consider themselves victims and might buy a book or course of therapy) all that was wrong in their relationships. As a postulate it also expunges the alleged victim of any responsibility, since none of it was their fault, it was THE NARCISSIST's. And they are out there like a secret league of Darth Vaders and they got to be common as everyone knows five or six..... as the do people with 'friend diagnosed' Aspergers.
I prefer the older definitions of narcissism . It is just a character flaw common to performers. General attention seeking and risibility. Assumption that people who don't share their views on their art are philistines. I'll take that one on the chin for sure.
Anyway let me get back to looking at this river. I'll see if I can get these two fish to start fighting, before they gang up on me.
D.
D.
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