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Many Western cultures have adopted the idea of health based on germ theories and computer viruses, which sometimes mixed may result in fear of bacteria and viruses. The term Mental Health in itself is a bit misleading, is there a healthy mind and a sick mind, what is the criteria?
Is there an objective tool to recognize a “flu of the mind”, as it was termed in Japan by pharmaceutical companies? Should the symptoms to be nulled, or perhaps the cause would be interesting to figure out?
So many questions, not too many rational answers. As a kid in 2nd grade and 10 years depressed since then, might call myself almost an expert. A lot of bullying for being too smart, being an outcast is one of the worst feelings. So it builds a certain strength of mind, and having not too many distractions, venturing into the own mind in various ways is a really productive way to spend time.
The C-case was no surprise for those, who are curious about the human body and natural world. The internet allows to read scientific studies until the eyes go numb, so developed an immunity against fear of an invisible enemy. Healthy mind in a healthy body and vice versa.
The adventure lead 8 months ago in Spain, where liberties ceased to exist in one day. Since then stuck alone, watching how the culture became from week-long festivities to people walking silently heads down, having no identity due the veil, or modern hijab.
Craziness around, one might see C being a brain disease, a mental health thing, something to medicate. But is there a molecule, which arranges the brain neurons in a certain order, pretty unlikely. Or is the test stick up the nose like a soft lobotomy?
Everything is weird, have seen friends turned into feelingless zombies eating pills for feeling sad, or being too happy. It was a weird shift, when feelings became diseases, or “disorders”. Mental well-being is another thing, in order to feel the highest high, one needs to dive deep first.
The universe does not seem too linear, but we tend to look things 2-dimensionally. Is a feeling just some neuron electric charge combined with hormones, or perhaps there are way more to be counted for? Why not enjoy and appreciate the thrills, instead of escaping them?
One cannot buy happiness in a jar, it comes by following the flow. As a kid one has few choices on where to live or who to learn from. So no wonder the amount of melancholy, living in an upside-down world. The commercials say it is your fault for feeling bad, you have not bought the right thing yet.
Even many spiritual teachers tell to ignore the dark and focus on light, one needs contrast to even start to understand something. Feelings are there for a reason, the inner compass is there even it is usually muted in the childhood. Speaking of kids, messing up with developing brain with chemicals can result in horrible effects, but in many places the pills have replaced candies.
I was really lucky, and was not force-fed the SSRI pills as a kid, and the instincts have always rejected the salvation in a pill-idea. One needs to sit still 8 hours a day, forced sitting used to be a big punishment back in the day. No wonder the kids minds get twisted, and if nobody is there to teach emotional intelligence, the odds are not the greatest to become a balanced person.
In Finland the fear of authority is taught since a toddler, you get the carrot or the stick, and they are mostly out of vegetables. Now they even added the slave masks mandatory, which even more decreases the humanity from public mind programming facilities.
With the life experience and research, cannot find evidence on brains having some extra hormones running around resulting in a disease. Epigenetic factor seems to be huge, the environment feels bad, but we insist on ignoring the inner compass. Feeling down? Change scenery.
The old tribes used to have Cathartic rituals, like having born again. There is no immediate threat of a predator, so we make up dangers from the silliest of things. Perhaps the basic physical needs are met, but there is so much on the mental, or spiritual side unfulfilled.
So living in a big groups of people in a small area dissolves the tribal connection, and the work we do, hardly ever gets recognition. So no wonder we feel like rowing boats in the middle of the lake, holes being drilled from many directions. Taking a pill is like taking a handful of water and throwing it overboard, considering the addiction potential and side-effects.
The connection to nature is crucial, feeling the sun on the skin, seeing birds fly and ants doing their things. Without the horticultural hobby, the mind would be in even lower state. My grandpa used to take me to forest trips to make campfire sandwitches, few times when not feeling miserable.
Now he lies in a hospital bed, pilled up out of the mind. It began with doctors forbidding to eat fats, statine pills, in a few weeks he got Alzheimers. Now the grandma has not seen him for months, because of C. I think it is the worst way to go, laying alone fading away.
Most of the problems are based on fear, on what other people think or something is there to harm me. Having no future is pretty common thought among the youth, increasingly with every age section. Quite the contrary, it is impossible to imagine an impossible thing.
It is boxed thinking. We might fall in the trap of “lack of money”, but what we actually need is resources. Good close human connections, food and water and some clothes, with only those have managed to live a free life for a decade. Some might feel sorry for having the homeless status, but actually poor people tend to smile and laugh more, I wonder why?
It is not necessary to fix something, which is not broken. A wall of text with a little structure here, perhaps we are not logical calculation machines, but unique creatures fooling ourselves, that we are not there yet.