Self-Diagnosis and Welcome to the 60's

Warning: this post is not directed at anyone in particular. It is my opinion and that is all. 

One thing that frustrates me are people who self-diagnose. In my opinion, you do not have an illness (mental or physical) until a professional (preferably more than one) confirms it. One thing that baffles me is the people who seem to want  to be diagnosed with a “fashionable” mental illness, like OCD and yet know nothing about it. I’m not talking about people who are genuinely suffering and need relief. But lately it seems like everybody and their mother wants to bear the cross of mental illness. Sometimes professionals even tell someone they do not have a mental illness and they  don’t believe them. They are just so determined to be sick. Which is probably a mental illness in itself.

Anyway, lets take a break and visit the 1960s. 

1. The 1960s saw the advent of such fashion statements like go go boots and miniskirts, usually paired together.

2. The Easy Bake Ovens actually cooked something. And here I thought they were just toys, but no they actually managed to cook cakes and brownies using lightbulbs. I would have enjoyed that as a child. I  think. Then again I don’t even use the regular oven now that I’m an adult.

3. Tye dye represented the new hippie culture. It was (and still is) very fun to turn a white T-shirt into something a little more colorful. Another invention that tagged teamed with tye dye T-shirts are lava lamps. I won a lava lamp in a contest but due to the fact that I  have too much stuff already I was unable to keep it.

4. Chatty Cathy is also apparently an actual thing. I thought it was a phrase grownups said about kids that they wanted to shut up. Apparently, it is a doll that says 11 phrases including “I love you” and “Let’s play school” I would love to have a doll that wanted to play school as much as I did. 

5. Sit-ins started happening in establishments that banned African Americans. In peaceful protest, they would sit at the lunch counters until finally the in 1964 the Woolworth’s lunch counter was desegregated. The 60’s was a big decade for Civil Rights with Martin Luther King Jr. making his “I Had a Dream” speech

6. In the 1960 Summer Olympics boxer Muhammad Ali won a gold medal. However on his way home a whites only restaurant refused to serve him so he threw his gold medal in the Ohio River. I wonder  if anybody ever retrieved that,

7. The “pill” (birth control pill if you need it spelled out) was introduced which changed the lives of many single girls or girls who were not ready to get pregnant. There was controversy over the pill and who it should be given to. 

https://www.factinate.com/things/bizarre-things-about-60s-you-probably-forgot

8. The first presidential debate took place in 1960: Kennedy vs. Nixon who went on to have very different legacies.

9. The Pulitzer Prize book to Kill A Mockingbird was published in 1960

1. Beatlemania became a phenomenon when the British group the Beatles became popular in the United States.