Even though psychosiphobia is an invented term to describe society's fear of psychosis, mass media has done a disservice by either playing it for laughs or taking it all to seriously.
This fear appears in the minds of people who think if I tough it out, then I can beat mental illness just by thinking it away and gave patience waiting for my inner demons to leave me...
What magical thinking is this??
It's unfair to discriminate and stigmatize a person for his social ineptness even when he is supportive of tolerance of mental health consumers.
For mental health consumers, the peaceful confrontation is the safest path to survival.
If you don't like me for a few of my more eccentric views, and if you ignore the evidence as I've presented it, then my fear is validated — the fear that if you got to know me better, you'd called me weird and scary, and avoid close contact with me.
I agree with your view but we need to do more than complain about this problem that people with psychiatric disabilities face. This problem is called STIGMA.
Most mentally ill people are no more likely to harm others or even be violent to friends, loved ones, or even strangers.
Possibly only psychopaths are more likely to use violence on others.
A world leader with depression is an asset to the world, and a medicated world leader is as effective as a world leader in a wheelchair.
With therapy — whether from a therapist or of the self-help kind — we are mostly harmless.
So I am fed up with the stigmatization of people with psychiatric disabilities.
I am not crazy, a nutjob or totally insane; I have a mental illness. While you may think I might be scary and weird sometimes, that's only my anxiety talking.
It really isn't the real me.
So give the mentally ill a chance.
Thank you for your support!
psychosiphobia: http://wayback.archive.org/web/20061202024408/http://psychosiphobia.com/
Showing posts with label self-empowerment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label self-empowerment. Show all posts
20110812
Self-control (poem)
Hard it is to be independent
of others, when in their presence
I wrestle with negative emotions and feelings,
which are completely my own.
Easy it is to be independent
of others, when in their presence
I let only positive emotions and feelings
remain in my control alone.
What then is the difference
between negative and positive feelings
but the responsibility for
one's emotions in the face of others
which compassion provides?
This is the gift of loving-kindness.
For loving-kindness has been there
from birth until death, which is not
the choice of any person —
and grateful am I to my Higher Power
for knowing the difference between
what I cannot change and what I can!
of others, when in their presence
I wrestle with negative emotions and feelings,
which are completely my own.
Easy it is to be independent
of others, when in their presence
I let only positive emotions and feelings
remain in my control alone.
What then is the difference
between negative and positive feelings
but the responsibility for
one's emotions in the face of others
which compassion provides?
This is the gift of loving-kindness.
For loving-kindness has been there
from birth until death, which is not
the choice of any person —
and grateful am I to my Higher Power
for knowing the difference between
what I cannot change and what I can!
20070402
True Non-violence
True nonviolence must be based, first of all, on a secure sense of one’s own value as a human being. Violence toward others, far from being an expression of self-worth, is based on a repression of one’s sense of vulnerability which then translates into hostility toward others. The most violent men are those with the deepest fears of their own impotence. Training in nonviolence must be based on spiritual or personal development and empowerment of the self. An empowered self will not accept its own degradation, or that of others. -- Rosemary Ruether, in Feminism and Peace
Likewise, the most violent people are those with the deepest fears of their own impotence and powerlessness.
Thus non-violence is based on self-empowerment and self-worth through honest expression of one's sense of vulnerability.
To emphasize this point, let me paraphrase the Buddhist quote regarding the true warrior:
Though a thousand people
may submit to him,
only he who submits to himself
is the true warrior.
Likewise, the most violent people are those with the deepest fears of their own impotence and powerlessness.
Thus non-violence is based on self-empowerment and self-worth through honest expression of one's sense of vulnerability.
To emphasize this point, let me paraphrase the Buddhist quote regarding the true warrior:
Though a thousand people
may submit to him,
only he who submits to himself
is the true warrior.
20050508
Of dolls, intuition and empowerment
Dolls help take us out of childhood.
Some children use them to roleplay family drama so that the child mind can make sense of family dynamics for later recall as adults, when we finally do look at our childhood to make sense of it and to help us cope with life.
When I left Victoria in 1990, I was given two frog dolls by a close frind of mine.
They helped me adapt to living with my folks again.
About three years later, my friend from Victoria found a boyfriend, got pregnant and broke off contact with me.
The story of Vasalisa, who relies of her doll to escape Baba Yaga, is one about rising above the good mother, the part of us that can't stop helping others, even to the point of losing touch with our inner self.
Certain types of romance result from unfairly taking advantage of women who are mothering and act out of their compassion.
They may find sympathy for a man who tells his life story after he has gifted her with positive attention i.e. charming her by commenting on her beauty.
This story of Vasalisa contains the means by which such a woman can find her Wild woman side and nurture her intuition.
In this way shewill be able to balance her mothering abilities with her intuition so that she is not vulnerable to the charming sweet-talking men out there.
My friend's gift of the frog dolls, I feel, helped me to adapt to home life.
In a sense, she too is a mother figure, since she did loan me cutlery and eating utensils.
I hope she too found someone to help her grow into motherhood.
It's been 15 years since I left Victoria, and 12.5 years since she broke off communication.
Her own child is about 13. I wonder what's happening with her...
Some children use them to roleplay family drama so that the child mind can make sense of family dynamics for later recall as adults, when we finally do look at our childhood to make sense of it and to help us cope with life.
When I left Victoria in 1990, I was given two frog dolls by a close frind of mine.
They helped me adapt to living with my folks again.
About three years later, my friend from Victoria found a boyfriend, got pregnant and broke off contact with me.
The story of Vasalisa, who relies of her doll to escape Baba Yaga, is one about rising above the good mother, the part of us that can't stop helping others, even to the point of losing touch with our inner self.
Certain types of romance result from unfairly taking advantage of women who are mothering and act out of their compassion.
They may find sympathy for a man who tells his life story after he has gifted her with positive attention i.e. charming her by commenting on her beauty.
This story of Vasalisa contains the means by which such a woman can find her Wild woman side and nurture her intuition.
In this way shewill be able to balance her mothering abilities with her intuition so that she is not vulnerable to the charming sweet-talking men out there.
My friend's gift of the frog dolls, I feel, helped me to adapt to home life.
In a sense, she too is a mother figure, since she did loan me cutlery and eating utensils.
I hope she too found someone to help her grow into motherhood.
It's been 15 years since I left Victoria, and 12.5 years since she broke off communication.
Her own child is about 13. I wonder what's happening with her...
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