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Submitted by Student on Sun, 12/07/2008 - 2:06pm.
One of the definitions Adi lent us was, ""A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control."  I thought that it is this desire for control, and the ability to control, that really defines true mental health.  I also think that a lack of control is where the stigma for mental health comes from... the fear of the uncontrollable.  I think it's the surprises and the unpredictability that can make something uncontrollable so scary.  If our brains can control our subconscious and our conscious, but we're only aware of our conscious, is the subconscious what really defines us? Our conscious' are out there, exposed to the world. We're functionally in society as a result of our conscious'.  But, our subconscious, how controlled it is, how much unpredictability lies there, how much crosses over to our conscious state- could that in part define the role we play in society, and how likely we are to be "uncontrollable?"

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