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Post by Admin on Jan 4, 2020 19:12:18 GMT
www.madinamerica.com/2020/01/overcoming-madness/"To paraphrase Shakespeare, “One touch of madness makes the whole world kin.” Madness is an entirely relative matter: some of us have a “touch” and others of us have been there and back, more than once or twice. To understand one person’s madness is, to some degree, to understand everyone’s, because these experiences share much in common. I believe that everything we call madness, craziness, psychosis, serious personal problems, problems in living—the whole spectrum of emotional suffering and personal failure—usually have two underlying intertwined struggles going on within the individual. Since madness itself can be difficult to define or to come to an agreement about, it can help individuals to ask themselves if they are struggling with these two issues. One struggle has to do with overcoming feelings of helplessness. The other has to do with overcoming feelings of being unworthy or undeserving of love. Put them together and we have helplessness in the face of feeling unworthy or undeserving of love. To understand this is to understand a great deal of what drives us human beings “over the edge” emotionally and into personal failure in our lives. My personal experience, my clinical work, and all those other things that go into trying to understand life, have led me in recent times to focus increasingly on those two expressions of psychological vulnerability—feeling helpless and feeling unworthy or undeserving of love."
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2020 18:21:39 GMT
I usually look to animals for unconditional love, if it wasn't for them goodness knows how unwell I would be.
Often wonder if the psychosis would have dissipated had I just got plenty of sleep and worked through the voices rather than suppressing them. The doctors don't want to talk about it or help me with their content.
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