Why do people keep associating “black and white” thinking with Scorpios …?
Mental disorders are generally popularised these days – every man and his dog has borderline personality disorder, OCD, bipolar… etc, etc. Not really, of course, because to be classified with an actual personality disorder is a very big thing and a person must exhibit marked systems… but I assume popularisation of psychology through the media has contributed to this way of thinking. All the signs suffer from this kind of misunderstanding… for instance, Pisces is associated with addiction. Severe addiction is a terrible thing to deal with, but all Pisceans obviously don’t have addictive disorder, though they may have somewhat addictive personalities. Gemini people are not ‘bipolar’, and neither are Cancers, though they may have a tendency to change moods often. Virgos have a tendency to be perfectionists, or tidy, but that does not mean they have full blown OCD. Similarly, there is a tendency towards extreme thinking associated with the sign of Scorpio, but not in the sense that i