Sad clown paradox
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Sad clown paradox
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#2Boy does this ring true. I’ll hafta talk to my therapist about it, wonder how widely known it is.
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#3Boy does this ring true. I’ll hafta talk to my therapist about it, wonder how widely known it is.
I think this is similar to mistaken belief like there is link between "bipolar disorder and artistic ability".Kay Redfield Jamison proposes such a thesis. There is substantial number of artists who don't have bipolar as well large number of bipolar people who don't have artistic ability
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#4Boy does this ring true. I’ll hafta talk to my therapist about it, wonder how widely known it is.
I think this is similar to mistaken belief like there is link between "bipolar disorder and artistic ability".Kay Redfield Jamison proposes such a thesis. There is substantial number of artists who don't have bipolar as well large number of bipolar people who don't have artistic ability
I'm not saying there's a link, but that's very far from disproving a link.
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#5That “Rorschach test” section is weird, someone basically decided to summarize some random book.
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#6...or perhaps, Robin Williams syndrome?
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#7...or perhaps, Robin Williams syndrome?
Charlie Chaplin may have been there first. (Never diagnosed, but they didn't much diagnose depression back then.)
https://www.grunge.com/128829/charlie-chaplins-tragic-real-l...
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#8Doesn't seem paradoxical to me at all. If you learn enough about the world, quite a lot of it turns into a big joke. It's a surreal feeling. Like nothing you do matters because it's all just an absurd joke.
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#9There's a related phenomenon I've seen a lot, sometimes firsthand, of people who consider themselves shy while others consider them the life of the party.
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#10"But doctor, I am Pagliacci"