“I found sometimes, that it is of great help in handling such a case, to encourage them, to express their peculiar contents either in the form of writing or of drawing and painting. There are so many incomprehensible intuitions in such cases, phantasy fragments that rise from the unconscious, for which there is almost no suitable language. I let my patients find their own symbolic expressions, their “mythology.”
― C.G. Jung, The Red Book
My take on it is it would be worse if they didn't have the internet to express those thoughts, because maybe if they express them they can analize them better and come to the conclusion that certain thoughts are not healthy, much less acting on them. At the very least they vent, and maybe make the rest of us aware that we can't expect the same reactions from them than from other people.
One thing is to fantasize you could run as fast as one of your favourite animals, something else is to meet people who have taken the route to demand recognition as their favourite fantasy and seeing the effects of that on the people you meet. I am sure more than one person has learned to manage their fantasies inside once they learned what happened to the people who exteriorized their fantasies.
The adults that raise their kids to believe this crap is wrong and when parents enable their kids to do this they pressure their siblings into prentending they are animals too.
Ther is a 7 yr old girl whos older sister has a show and she now thinks she is a wolf too. if they wernt so young I would be going off about it and making fun of their videos. 2-3 days ago they almost got shot by a hunter and they go on to brag about it because they think they are turning into the animals.
We use to call people that did this shit crazy, what happened to where we now not only tolerate it but actually enable them and support their destructive actions?
I do not see how any of this stuff is going to help them when reality hits them and they have to deal with the real world.
IDK it seriously hurts my brain when I try to think about it.
I am more concerned about the adults raising kids to believe they can do whatever they want in life so long as they repent before death, those are the ones who get away with it without being called crazy/irresponsible for what I have seen.
I see them both in the same catagory.
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