Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Mental Illness in Cohousing & Society

[Forbes Jan (jan.forbes]

Dear Chris

Being a control freak does not constitute a mental illness unless the person
is obviously delusional.

No flies on you.  Who doesn't have control issues in some way or other? It
helps to be aware of them.  

Borrowing from Lynn Nadeau, no doubt another benefit of living in community
is that it highlights control issues, so an opportunity to deal with them. 

Probably why I'm jumping in here, the path that led me to cohousing started
with an interest in finding better ways for mentally ill people to live.  I
started from the premise, derived from radical psychiatry, that it is our
society's unhealthy way of living in the first place that exacerbates and
possibly creates some mental health problems.  Problems are exacerbated in
particular through isolation and lack of opportunity for reality testing.
Also pathology breeds in the dysfunctional power relationships of nuclear
family living arrangements.

Jan

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris ScottHanson [mailto:chris [at] cohousingresources.com]
Sent: Friday, 4 October 2002 6:11 AM
To: Cohousing-l
Subject: Re: [C-L]_Mental Illness in Cohousing & Society


on 10/2/02 12:20 PM, Juva DuBoise at juvad [at] earthlink.net wrote:

> more likely problem is the disproportionate number of us
> control freaks that are attracked to Cohousing!

I wonder... is this possibly a form of mental illness.

I have no control issues.  Do you?


Chris 

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