[gobucks]

I have a Dr. in ministry, Biblical Counseling specialty. There are certain mental illnesses or personality disorders that promote a need for the perception of control. This causes, in some, a very rigid mental state similar to what you might see as someone approaches senility.

ANOTHER doctor on FreeRepublic! Thank God for all these authority figures!! We'd be in big trouble but for you guys helpfully pointing out our underlying mental illnesses. Hey, I'm game .... what 'certain mental illness' do I need to look up which describes the cause of my 'rigid' mentat state?

I didn't have an any idea I had such a need for 'perception for control' as you describe, good doctor. Your degree is from, lemme guess, the Unitarian Universalist University?

But, I'm unafraid ... let's see your links which describe the illnesses to which you so boldly and with degreed authority refer to ....

[shubi]

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