Are you a robot or a psychotic? Robots do the same thing over and over again and respond to different situations and people in the same way – identically every time.
Psychotics, on the other hand, are unpredictable, responding to different people and situations in different ways, sometimes inappropriately.
In everyday life, if we’re functional we behave, hopefully, a little bit like the psychotic in that we have behavioral flexibility and can choose how we respond (rather than responding to everything in exactly the same way).
We can also, hopefully, distinguish between our imagined reality and the reality that is commonly held by those we are reacting with. That’s what makes us a functional.
The alternative would be to respond in exactly the same way to every person or situation you encounter. That would make you a robot.
Are you a psychotic or a robot?
This podcast of Caitriona Reed was recorded on a retreat at Manzanita Village.
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