April14_2025

Therapy Fix

https://old.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/1oqtptu/go_to_therapy/

 

 

"Well what does it allow us to escape from? Well I actually have to say that this moment in existentialism has certainly been good for me, I think. It’s been a healthy thing for me. It cut short therapy, I went to a therapist once, I went three times, and on the third visit I went “Oh by the way I have a question. Why are we born to suffer and die?” and she went [unintelligible mumble], and that was the end of therapy for me. I figured that if she couldn’t help me with my fundamental problem, she wasn’t going to do much good on the trivial problems. I mean, I had a big problem: why are we born to suffer and die? She just went [utter nonsense]… she just went “Well I can write you a prescription for some Valium”, and I said “No thanks, I drink, I don’t need it” [crowd laughter] I belong to a large club; I am a drunkard…"

https://rickroderick.org/302-heidegger-and-the-rejection-of-humanism-1993/

Suicide by food, suidice by drinking... Rick Roderick was obese and died at age 52.

Mental burnout from mass mind defense of self. A heavy weight to carry Roderick did.