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REMant 01/13/2010 01:07 AM Report
Actually she makes more sense than Tanenhaus. She is funny, I think, because she seems to be a very smart woman, and only the most intelligent ppl are capable of seeing themselves as others see them, however her routine, as she intimated, is likely a means of self-control.
Altho cases like hers argue a genetic cause, bipolar, or what we used to call manic-depressive, disorder is found disproportionately in certain groups, Jews for instance, and this brings in the question of upbringing and culture.
But the underlying issue in all mental illness seems to be the presence or absence of personal worth or autonomy, despite the varying symptomatology, and that, in turn on the degree of rationality and objectivity. The very young, old and primitive ppl display symptoms we associate with mental illness in normal adults. John Holt, for instance, observed some years ago elementary school kids act like characters in the Iliad, something, BTW, explained well in one of the best books ever written in intellectual history, Werner Jaeger's Paideia.