Dr. Lance Sweets (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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hadriel2017-10-01 01:54 pm
lifetothefullest) wrote in hadriel2017-10-01 01:54 pm
006 [Video]
[So, the event's officially over, everything's back to cave-normal, and Lance has had some time to sort out his thoughts on everything. He's also had time to debate with himself on whether he should address something bothering him or just ignore it.
Although he's decided, finally, on the former, it took quite a bit of mental debate; he probably wouldn't have said anything at all if he weren't a psychologist, and weren't concerned that other people might be seriously negatively affected if the issue weren't brought up. Regardless, he's still not exactly looking forward to this entire thing because he can't see it going over all too well, but then again when does anything go over well here?]
Now that the event is over there's something I wanted to address, regarding it and others in the future. I expect there will be disagreement, which is fine, but it would be nice if that disagreement could be discussed in some sort of reasonable manner.
[In other words, not with yelling or threats or murder. He has high hopes for you all!!!]
I'm not going to go into a lot of psychological details and reasoning unless anyone is actually interested, but to summarize: although the idea of simply resisting a compulsion is theoretically appealing, it's not exactly that simple in practice. It also has no correlation at all with being weak, feeble-minded, a failure, or any other negative descriptor I've seen used so freely lately.
[Which he's none too pleased about, even if it doesn't bother him much personally.]
Considering that so many here have so much to worry about and are under enough mental stress already, adding blame for something caused by an outside influence is not exactly helpful, especially in the long run. I'm also just generally unsure that being angry with each other over something caused by an event is the best use of everyone's time and energy.
[Especially when things done by people while completely in control of themselves tend to be overlooked entirely, but he's not even going to touch that topic right now.]
That said, if anyone who has been here for some time has any sort of advice or strategy for identifying and attempting to control an event-caused mental effect, that would be useful. I don't doubt that there might be some techniques that could help, depending on the individual and the specific nature of the event.
Although he's decided, finally, on the former, it took quite a bit of mental debate; he probably wouldn't have said anything at all if he weren't a psychologist, and weren't concerned that other people might be seriously negatively affected if the issue weren't brought up. Regardless, he's still not exactly looking forward to this entire thing because he can't see it going over all too well, but then again when does anything go over well here?]
Now that the event is over there's something I wanted to address, regarding it and others in the future. I expect there will be disagreement, which is fine, but it would be nice if that disagreement could be discussed in some sort of reasonable manner.
[In other words, not with yelling or threats or murder. He has high hopes for you all!!!]
I'm not going to go into a lot of psychological details and reasoning unless anyone is actually interested, but to summarize: although the idea of simply resisting a compulsion is theoretically appealing, it's not exactly that simple in practice. It also has no correlation at all with being weak, feeble-minded, a failure, or any other negative descriptor I've seen used so freely lately.
[Which he's none too pleased about, even if it doesn't bother him much personally.]
Considering that so many here have so much to worry about and are under enough mental stress already, adding blame for something caused by an outside influence is not exactly helpful, especially in the long run. I'm also just generally unsure that being angry with each other over something caused by an event is the best use of everyone's time and energy.
[Especially when things done by people while completely in control of themselves tend to be overlooked entirely, but he's not even going to touch that topic right now.]
That said, if anyone who has been here for some time has any sort of advice or strategy for identifying and attempting to control an event-caused mental effect, that would be useful. I don't doubt that there might be some techniques that could help, depending on the individual and the specific nature of the event.
Video
[It's a way better plan than a lot of people here seem to have, and Lance entirely encourages it. Bring on the cuteness; everyone could use it here.]
Re: Video
[George will do her best to bring the cute]
Video
[Lance definitely thinks pets a good idea here, if one is able to take care of them; they're therapeutic, which people can definitely use.]
Re: Video
[there is an unpleasant story behind this]
Video
[But for a less unpleasant story--]
I've never had a pet, but I did keep a goat in my office for a few days once.
[Fitz was a great goat.]
Re: Video
[yay, less unpleasant things!]
--seriously? A goat? That's so cool.
[goats are always awesome]
Video
Talking about the goat is way safer.]
He was pretty cool, even if he kept trying to eat my paperwork and my coworkers weren't exactly glad to have him around.
[The way he says this indicates that Lance found this very unimportant in comparison to giving the goat a place to stay until he could go to the animal rescue.]
Video
Well, what were you supposed to do? Call a petting zoo and ask them if they had a spot open? Anyway, goats are cool. Even though they will eat anything.
[George is firmly Team Goat and would be glad to know it went to a happy home]