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Dr. Ralph Lewis
There is no sharp dividing line between voluntary and involuntary behaviors.
Do you think of yourself as the author of your own actions? A free agent? Completely and all the time?
Or, have you had moments thinking, “I don’t know why I just said that”, or, “I don’t know what came over me when I did that!”
My patients with psychiatric disorders more readily admit that there are times when they definitely do not feel in control of their thoughts, emotions, speech and actions. It’s frightening and dismaying for them.
Most mental disorders can be understood as ends of a continuum of normal human traits.
