RE: Reflection on the Often "Mythical" Aspects of Mental Illness
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Uncle Sven isn't who's ill; it's society that's ill, and Uncle Sven is actually a symptom!
Yes! Nearly everyone is sick in some way. Many mental 'illnesses' were once considered differences that did not require any intervention or medical care. But the medical machine is voracious, and needs to find more and more illness so they can sell us more and more pharmaceuticals. The medical industry is a parasite, and needs our bodies to be ill, or to be seen as ill, in order to function or even exist.
We have been encouraged to be on a constant lookout for illnesses in ourselves. This enslaves us to the medical machine. The field of psychology, while it has some merit, like all things, is a big reason we all spend so much time obsessing over what might be wrong with us, rather than to feel safe in our bodies.
Yep. (Most) Western medicine is based around treating the patient, rather than healing them. But in a for-profit medical system, a "well" individual is no longer a profit center.
The field of psychology definitely has merit, but the so-called "codes of conduct" typically serve as shackles that keep those seeking help "in treatment" for months or years. My wife is a Jungian analyst, but she practices as a "life coach" because being a "Licensed therapist" would prevent her from accomplishing with her clients in 3-4 sessions what mainstream counseling takes years to accomplish...
yup. I was in therapy for fifteen years! lol. She really was a paid friend all those years. Although she did help me with my problems, she didn't help me with my most debilitating problem. I had to do that on my own.