Do you ever look back on things you thought of as a kid and compared to how you view the same things now, think some things made more sense the first way you perceived it?
A few days ago I got to thinking about the things I thought or the way I knew things as a kid, and it is a much more simplistic way to look at a lot of things and maybe not very practical especially in today's world, but I'm not sure that was a bad thing.
One thing I think about, when I was a kid I knew people took pills for medicine when they were sick, I knew people got sick once in a while, I didn't know some people needed pills every single day of their lives, especially psychiatric pills, I didn't know anything about mental illness as a kid, all I knew was that some people were normal and some were crazy. To be honest I don't know that that's a bad way for a kid to grow up because I never had that idea 'oh everybody takes pills, sometimes for no reason at all, sometimes to feel good, so maybe I should try it too', pills were only if you were sick and even then I never wanted any because they made me sick and I couldn't swallow them, and if somebody would've told me then that people swallow whole bottles' full for no reason, I would've thought THEY were crazy.
Another thing when I was a kid, I had never heard of things like trauma or post traumatic stress, it never occurred to me that by living through something horrible or tragic, that THAT would be grounds for seeing a shrink. In my child's mind the way I saw it was you went through something horrible: somebody died, you got kidnapped, you were almost killed, etc., you get over it and move on with your life like everything else and that was that. Another thing I'm not sure is a bad mindset for kids to grow up with because I knew bad things happen, you have nightmares about those bad things, but everybody has nightmares and they're all just dreams and dreams don't mean anything once you wake up. I mean that's what we're taught when we're tiny, no matter how scared we are or how real it is, we're told it's not real, it can't hurt us, so don't let it bother us, etc., and it doesn't always work but that's what we're told. We're expected to just get over it no matter how frightening it is, so why wouldn't the same logic apply when you were older? But that's just me.
Anybody else got a then and now view on life that they'd like to share?
A few days ago I got to thinking about the things I thought or the way I knew things as a kid, and it is a much more simplistic way to look at a lot of things and maybe not very practical especially in today's world, but I'm not sure that was a bad thing.
One thing I think about, when I was a kid I knew people took pills for medicine when they were sick, I knew people got sick once in a while, I didn't know some people needed pills every single day of their lives, especially psychiatric pills, I didn't know anything about mental illness as a kid, all I knew was that some people were normal and some were crazy. To be honest I don't know that that's a bad way for a kid to grow up because I never had that idea 'oh everybody takes pills, sometimes for no reason at all, sometimes to feel good, so maybe I should try it too', pills were only if you were sick and even then I never wanted any because they made me sick and I couldn't swallow them, and if somebody would've told me then that people swallow whole bottles' full for no reason, I would've thought THEY were crazy.
Another thing when I was a kid, I had never heard of things like trauma or post traumatic stress, it never occurred to me that by living through something horrible or tragic, that THAT would be grounds for seeing a shrink. In my child's mind the way I saw it was you went through something horrible: somebody died, you got kidnapped, you were almost killed, etc., you get over it and move on with your life like everything else and that was that. Another thing I'm not sure is a bad mindset for kids to grow up with because I knew bad things happen, you have nightmares about those bad things, but everybody has nightmares and they're all just dreams and dreams don't mean anything once you wake up. I mean that's what we're taught when we're tiny, no matter how scared we are or how real it is, we're told it's not real, it can't hurt us, so don't let it bother us, etc., and it doesn't always work but that's what we're told. We're expected to just get over it no matter how frightening it is, so why wouldn't the same logic apply when you were older? But that's just me.
Anybody else got a then and now view on life that they'd like to share?
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