How do you react when something is thrust on you?

Hi Subha, I've recently started to get mad and protest these decisions. I used to go along with it to avoid arguments and hurting peoples feelings. I started to realize that they aren't respecting my right to say no. I've also had to learn to start saying no, because most of the time it was something that I had absolutely no interest in, but I didn't want to be the bad guy. My time is valuable and now I want to do thing because I enjoy them, not because I'm forced to.

I would definitely protest and I guess that is what I have done b4. But the down side of a protest is if we stand alone, we get defeated! Yeah, I had to go through it and though many found what I was protesting for the truth, they did not want to loose their jobs. So, there I was completely lonely, and wanting to fight for what was right, but defeated at last!

it all depends on how the person is and what the situation is if I think it is something that really should be handled by somebody else I will just say so.

hi subha nice to see you here again, hatley here. It really depends on what the decisions are whether or not I am ready to accept their decisions. I don't always obey just to avoid an argument if the decision is one I cannot go along with. I do protest if its something that perhaps might be borderline illegal or borderline immoral. I do protest and mightily too may I add.The other person should make damned sure that he has not crossed any lines before he wants me to accept his decisions.

Oh, I become angry. Especially since I was diagnosed with a Mental Disorder. The whole ritual of going to therapists regularly, being "named" with your disorder title, fuss about necessary medicine, is enough to put you into a rhythm that is not like the old rhythm before people publicized and romanticized your differences and problems. I guess I feel bad about this, and I project my feelings to legal and authoritative things. This does not mean I don't have hope for the hopeless, because I do. If you link mental illness with religion or religious experiences there is a fuzzy line and it may be credible to pursue thought and relief. I think that some of the "binding of my wild imagination" has helped me. But I am still bound today, it is still by wildness, but also by the hammer-ons of put-your-thumb on it social control. Very strange! I'm getting a physical manifestation/hallucination right now in my neck. it hurts..