Website review: BPhoenix: The Link Between Mental I...
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challengeme rated 17 months ago- Mental Health and Creativity
"From a part of the brain preternaturally elevated, but not diseased, the mind sometimes discovers not only unusual strengths and acuteness, but certain talents it never exhibited before. Talents for eloquence, poetry, music and painting, and uncommon ingenuity in several of the mechanical arts, are often evolved in this state of madness. Many researchers have attempted to determine if there is truth in the enduring belief that genius is allied to madness. Scholars who have studied the lives of highly creative people have discovered that the number of individuals with severe psychiatric illness among them is unexpectedly high. Bipolar disorder appears to be the most common of these illnesses."
I have been thinking about this very topic lately. Let us take a very differnt perspective to this for a moment. You with me?
What if we are treating people with mental illnesses the opposite to how they should be treated? Meaning: What if, and that's a weak "what if" because I do believe this, what if the very brain in which a psychologist calls "normal" is just as ill as the "mental" one? What if it's just that people with "mental illnesses" are different? Not "fixable". Maybe we don't need fixing. Maybe the "normal" just need to realize we need a different type of world to live in. Ok, I know I've lost about three-quarters of my audience by now, but think about it. What if it just takes certain living conditions for say, one with depression, or anxiety to live. Maybe in that case, different societies should be formed, or maybe just a simple understanding from the public. And when I say "mentally ill", I really mean "normal". Both exist as one. There's no differentiating one from the other. We are all different, not ill. And it is this very difference that is the key to our lives. If we act with respect toward everyone, we will find so many things each of us can offer to the world. We're all different, we're all not normal, and we're all weird.- Mental Health and Creativity
