Diagnostics and Social Identification

Public domain from Wikipedia; (Irrational Positivists like to erase the broader dialogs between the non western medical practices, in favor of atheistic generalities. "True Believers" are also clannish.)

                 We are all socially identifiable as subjects. Definitions for the individual self are many layered. There are many extra dimensions to our shared social spaces. Some of our distinctions are medical. Our experience of personal distinctiveness becomes an Emerging Social Language: You, Your body, Your life and your thoughts and your feelings and experiences we share, and we are measured. Moments are counted, indexed by thoughts, feelings and perceptions. Let's map out some of these local territories that we use to tag people.

                 Human profiling is a very big business. Studying each other, we can learn more about ourselves. It's very difficult to be your own amateur diagnostician, How much should we share? Your medical records are distinctively your own. But learning to index anyone's personal information is all about variability. We all have different identities. Personal differences are what we have in common.

                 How different are we? [3rd Axiomatic Law of the Para Psychological Method; SOME PEOPLE ARE VERY DIFFERENT, VERY DIFFERENTLY.] Now is a good time to be taking an inventory of your personal life. My well meaning friends often foolishly ask me, "Who isn't crazy?" I have to show them the statistics on mental illnesses. I say, "I'm not suggesting that you yourself are not insane, I just saying that mental illness is measured by standards of deviation." I have to remind them, diagnostics are very hard to do and can be potentially very damaging for the people who get diagnosed as being mentally ill. Behaviors can be diagnosable. Some of us are much more ill than others. (Mental illness is not a competitive sport.) Especially good moral values, frequently mask deadly psychiatric issues. Our own private medical data should be our own personal business. But the sciences of medicine and diagnostics are growing exponentially. Medicine has again exceeded the paying public's ability to understand. We have had life saving antibiotics for seventy years now, more than doubling the worlds population in my lifetime. It's a strange time to be alive. It's an even weirder time to die. Zoom.