The quotation I return to again and again in these times is from Krishnamurti: 'It's not measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society'.
What I'm seeing is that the real mental health issues lie with the psychopaths trying to control us (you may have mentioned one of them above, I'm not sure...). They are the 'neurodivergent' ones, because of the psychopathy and the robotic, linear, left-brained callousness that is all part of it. That's where the pathology lies.
As someone who has had depressive and anxiety attacks since the late 1960s, and all the chaos and meds that inevitably follow it, I heave my usual sigh at the recurrent claims that we should just "pull ourselves together". I've had this one from a work colleague, who abandoned that belief when his wife had a nervous breakdown, from unsympathetic doctors who thought 6 months off work could cure or solve everything, from optimistic parents, who mercifully changed their minds with later experience, from over enthusiastic therapists who had the "answer" to my "problem", and even from a marriage guidance counsellor, who put me off their service for life! (I did re-marry subsequently!)
We will never convince everyone that it can't just be overcome by determination, even though I personally know a couple of people who did manage to do just that. Most of us will battle with it for life, regardless of the form it takes. I've tried most of the meds available, but the one that worked best proved dangerous to my heart, so now I have a less helpful one, but it's enough to keep me functioning most of the time. I'm 76 now, and pretty cynical about most things, but a sense of humour (dark, needless to say) and good friends get me through, plus a determination to keep up the political activism I started at 16. If they are trying to demonise me, I'm quite happy to return the compliment.
Without a doubt, the mental health industry is operated by those most in need of "mental health". As humans, we live with two sides of the coin. The false self that can become mentally destabilized and the true self which is from spirit and resides in a higher state immune to the troubles of society and the world.
Any focus on mental health during this dystopian period is disturbing. Last century psychiatry was weaponized in the most malicious and malevolent way possible: to cull the unwanted.
Already this century is seeming to be a repeat of the last. The fake pandemic. Recession and political turmoil. All we need now is the stock market crash, the depression and a WW.
The Orange One, is already creating a social environment where some are actually glorifying that horrid little man with the funny mustache, and attempting to legitimise increasingly authoritarian policy.
Lest we forget. If we allow this to happen on a global scale, will we ever recover our humanity? Those that are left.
The quotation I return to again and again in these times is from Krishnamurti: 'It's not measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society'.
What I'm seeing is that the real mental health issues lie with the psychopaths trying to control us (you may have mentioned one of them above, I'm not sure...). They are the 'neurodivergent' ones, because of the psychopathy and the robotic, linear, left-brained callousness that is all part of it. That's where the pathology lies.
The "K" man was brilliant...the perfect psychologist without trying to be one.
As someone who has had depressive and anxiety attacks since the late 1960s, and all the chaos and meds that inevitably follow it, I heave my usual sigh at the recurrent claims that we should just "pull ourselves together". I've had this one from a work colleague, who abandoned that belief when his wife had a nervous breakdown, from unsympathetic doctors who thought 6 months off work could cure or solve everything, from optimistic parents, who mercifully changed their minds with later experience, from over enthusiastic therapists who had the "answer" to my "problem", and even from a marriage guidance counsellor, who put me off their service for life! (I did re-marry subsequently!)
We will never convince everyone that it can't just be overcome by determination, even though I personally know a couple of people who did manage to do just that. Most of us will battle with it for life, regardless of the form it takes. I've tried most of the meds available, but the one that worked best proved dangerous to my heart, so now I have a less helpful one, but it's enough to keep me functioning most of the time. I'm 76 now, and pretty cynical about most things, but a sense of humour (dark, needless to say) and good friends get me through, plus a determination to keep up the political activism I started at 16. If they are trying to demonise me, I'm quite happy to return the compliment.
Without a doubt, the mental health industry is operated by those most in need of "mental health". As humans, we live with two sides of the coin. The false self that can become mentally destabilized and the true self which is from spirit and resides in a higher state immune to the troubles of society and the world.
Hi Stirrer,
Any focus on mental health during this dystopian period is disturbing. Last century psychiatry was weaponized in the most malicious and malevolent way possible: to cull the unwanted.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17326822/
Already this century is seeming to be a repeat of the last. The fake pandemic. Recession and political turmoil. All we need now is the stock market crash, the depression and a WW.
The Orange One, is already creating a social environment where some are actually glorifying that horrid little man with the funny mustache, and attempting to legitimise increasingly authoritarian policy.
Lest we forget. If we allow this to happen on a global scale, will we ever recover our humanity? Those that are left.
Blessings,
Janey