Timism of the day: Shame Shame Shame.

Timism of the day: Perhaps when I am most concerned about people is when they feel hopeless. Even when someone is suicidal, I can give them a test that measures suicidal tendencies next to a test that measures hopelessness and the one that will dictate an intervention more than the other is the test for hopelessness. Th...e Rule of Perfectionism: No rule leads to hopelessness more powerfully than this. Since the ideal is a mental creation, it is a fantasy rather than reality. Shame as a healthy human feeling lets us know we are finite and incomplete. Shame lets us know we can make mistakes. Shame tells us that we are always in need of feedback. Shame lets us know we are not God. Shame lets us know we are human. Following the Perfectionism Rule leads to hopelessness because to be perfectly human is to be imperfect. Perfectionism is inhuman.