[bryony]

I can really identify with this. Actually, with much of what has been in this thread. It is interesting to see how our views change as we change. I will add my voice to those who feel they weren't so much controlled by this, as influenced by it. I think every choice I made was indeed a choice freely made. Not all of them were probably in my best interests, but so be it.

Hi Sfem

I think the brain is an extremely complex biochemical organ, at the mercy of the chemicals in our blood at any time. We know that there are drugs to alleviate psychosis, and drugs that can drive us mad.

On a finer level, we rationalise what we do based on low-level drivers which have themselves been formed and continue to develop through the endocrine balance in our bodies; if our conscious mind is happy and agrees with those desires, all well and good.

For others, like me, possible due to being born of an earlier generation, sometimes those subconscious urges conflict with conscious needs and desires, and the terminology of "being controlled" by them is sometimes used.

At that point the choice is either to modify the conscious desires to accept the drivers, or modify the drivers. We have found that a side-effect of taking PM for breast enlargement modifies the low-level desires of some people.

Fortunately for some (me) but not for others!

Obviously my talk of "being controlled" was more of a personal view than a general one. I certainly did not mean to offend where the drivers did not conflict with conscious desires.

Apologies! No offence intended!

B. x