Re: Re: Nada in mental hospital

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Excellent point Annie, and that's a great way to look at it. That's one

thing I've learned is that all these behaviors are normal human behaviors,

just taken to extreme/excess/etc. But thinking of it like a bell curve is

helpful, especially since I'm such a visual person lol. Being able to " see "

it in my head will help me to remember things, you know?

Your statement about " My nada was too proud of her expensive vacuum and

furnishings to batter them. (Unlike children, that heal, vacuums have to be

repaired or replaced. " sends chills down my spine. It's so disturbingly

sad, but unfortunately very true when it comes to many of our nadas.

Mia

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:19 PM, anuria67854 wrote:

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> Don't worry; I think that like most (but not all) behaviors there's a

> spectrum or continuum like a Bell-shaped curve, inside which (right in the

> middle) there is the normal range. When the behavior(s) becomes frequent,

> intense, counterproductive and distressing, they've gone into the abnormal

> range: towards either end of the Bell curve.

> So, there's the appalling & repulsively filthy, health-hazard home at one

> end, and the hospital operating-room sterile home full of rigid rules and

> punishments at the other end. Both the home-makers are freaking insane.

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> Your description of your nada's " cleaning rampages " sound all too

> distressingly familiar to me, except for the " vacuum bashing " part. My nada

> was too proud of her expensive vacuum and furnishings to batter them.

> (Unlike children, that heal, vacuums have to be repaired or replaced.)

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> But yes, I too think there is a lot of overlap in behaviors amongst the

> Cluster B pds, and some overlap with the behaviors in the other two clusters

> as well.

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> -Annie

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