I promised I’d update on the feedback I received about my “disorders and personality” assignment. Well the results were divided…probably about 40/60. While in the general sense my essay was fine…The larger side of the group decided that, when it came to really following the rules, my essay was crap, lol. They basically said I stayed to close to the “safe-line” I didn’t really dig into the guts of my relationships…from my perspective. They said I stayed too close to the “benign surface.” They called me out and said I was afraid to be 100% real about how bad things can really be. They all accused me of being more concerned for the feelings of those around me then being brutally honest in the essay.
And ya know what… I think they might have been on to something. To a point anyways. I mean I really do not think I sugar coated anything in my essay but I can agree that I didn’t get into the guts of it all either. But in my defense I didn’t think they wanted something quite that deep. Apparently I was wrong, lol.
So I have been given a new assignment. Should I wish to take it…and I am supposed to analyze just 1 relationship of mine…it doesn’t matter with who. I can pick anyone. I am supposed to go deep and not play it safe. In my group many of us have realized that one thing that holds us back from being honest and finding a real solution to some problems is the fear that our honesty will hurt someone else. So knowing that, that is a fear of mine too… I don’t know if I am going to do this one. I have to think about it.