What if madness is when common sense calls to us but we forgot how to listen to ourselves because our fragile connection to reality is broken temporarily?
Then medical intervention comes to the moment of psychic healing when we either remain in fear, unable to rise above madness, or we boldly go on to heal, and to become whole, using humility to reconnect to reality.
Mere mortals would confuse the mad for those people who have risen above madness, due to their fear and ignorance about madness.
What if the State assumes that madness should be controlled by medication because of that same fear?
Then these same medications are administered not only to relieve the mad of their affliction but also to relieve the fear which "normal" people feel when faced with the mad.
How absurd that we subject the mad to medication to relieve our own fears about madness itself!
Is this not the height of madness itself, that we subject others to medication to control them so that we ourselves may feel less fear towards them?
Even so, we do not take medication to relieve our own fears about madness because of the delusion that we ourselves consider ourselves sane while assuming that the mad are insane.
In doing so, we prove how insane society truly is! Perhaps then the truly mad are kept safe from society in psychiatric wards so as to be protected from society.
Then the purpose of medication is to calm extremely nervous people so that they may function in a society that has yet to overcome the stigma of mental illness.
Sometimes I ask these questions with the insight that the majority of people with mental illness are mostly non-violent people. Anyone who is violent and legally insane are excluded from this definition of sanity as madness. This is because their behavior forms part of the etiology of the psychopath.
Rather this so-called argument is satire designed to de-stigmatize mental illness.
Originally posted: May 20, 2005 08:18 PM
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The Authentic Self: Changing the Script
Each of us shares in this drama called Life, living by the script we each learn from birth until the day we die.
"The script" is a metaphor for behavioral and psychological negativities including cognitive distortions which lead to neuroses and sometimes, psychoses.
Indeed, the script can be summed up by this definition of insanity: when I keep doing the same thing all the time, expecting different results.
Yet it doesn't have to be like that.
Indeed, whenever I act differently from the day before, the script is being rewritten by me with the help of others.
This is why we share our lives with friends and family: to help rewrite that script, based on our shared experiences, to regain our sanity, one day at a time.
While we cannot change our life experience, we can still gain wisdom from it.
For the script is what we can change, just for today.
We can change the things we can by the grace of God as we know him, be it the 12-Step group, a prayer group, or simply two or more people sharing their lives with each other; within Japanese New Religion, Oyasama — which means "Greatly Honoured Parent" — also refers to the Higher Power, be it the Buddha or another spiritual entity.
This change is vital to, and a result of, spiritual growth which brings us closer to the authentic self.
Thus, living authentically is to live in the present moment, letting what each day offer each of us the chance to act to the best of our ability.
Provided that we play our part in Life, and be willing to change the script, it is possible to regains ties to the authentic self.
For more notes on the authentic self, click on the link at the head of this article: http://gandhara.blogspot.com/2010/12/notes-on-being-mentally-captive-and.html
"The script" is a metaphor for behavioral and psychological negativities including cognitive distortions which lead to neuroses and sometimes, psychoses.
Indeed, the script can be summed up by this definition of insanity: when I keep doing the same thing all the time, expecting different results.
Yet it doesn't have to be like that.
Indeed, whenever I act differently from the day before, the script is being rewritten by me with the help of others.
This is why we share our lives with friends and family: to help rewrite that script, based on our shared experiences, to regain our sanity, one day at a time.
While we cannot change our life experience, we can still gain wisdom from it.
For the script is what we can change, just for today.
We can change the things we can by the grace of God as we know him, be it the 12-Step group, a prayer group, or simply two or more people sharing their lives with each other; within Japanese New Religion, Oyasama — which means "Greatly Honoured Parent" — also refers to the Higher Power, be it the Buddha or another spiritual entity.
This change is vital to, and a result of, spiritual growth which brings us closer to the authentic self.
Thus, living authentically is to live in the present moment, letting what each day offer each of us the chance to act to the best of our ability.
Provided that we play our part in Life, and be willing to change the script, it is possible to regains ties to the authentic self.
For more notes on the authentic self, click on the link at the head of this article: http://gandhara.blogspot.com/2010/12/notes-on-being-mentally-captive-and.html
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