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There Are Two Types of People…
Neurotic types and psychotic types are always with us.
There was a time in my life when I was deeply interested in psychology. It started at the age of thirteen when I read my first psychology text book. It came to an end towards the end of my forties. You could say that I had almost four decades of reading up on how people functioned.
Somewhere in those days of heavy reading, I read about a particular spectrum. It comprised those who blamed themselves for every negative event in their lives (neurosis) and those who blamed everybody else for the events in their lives (psychosis). It was a strange definition, but it stuck.
What was unsaid in this piece was that there are also those who are stuck somewhat in the middle. They can determine, with some accuracy, whether they are to blame or whether someone else is to blame.
Through the years, I have been become very careful about blaming myself for things that were not my fault (Yup, I was on that side of the spectrum). I have also become aware of a growing number of people (a very, very large number of people), during this last decade, who insist on blaming everybody and everything else for the events and shortcomings in their own lives.
