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To all of you who folks are suffering from mental illness and asking themselves why, here are some unconventional ideas worth considering:


'Mental illness' is a label, a name given to yet misunderstood conditions by men who think (read believe) that the mind is a product of neuronal activity. Therefore, all mental illnesses are attributed to either external factors, such as in the case of post-traumatic stress disorder, or to hormonal or chemical imbalances in the brain (nearly all other illnesses). Yet in most cases, the alleged neurological alterations are NOT the cause of mental illnesses, but the effect of an underlying cause: the mind. This is clearly demonstrated by the variety of psychosomatic symptoms or the effect of the mind on the body.

Unless true men of science reverse their conceptualization from body>mind to mind>body, they will only skim the surface, keeping the population in the dark about mental issues and of course, the Big Pharma industry skyrocketing years after years. The mind, the psyche, the soul (it's all the same thing) is not only independent from the body, but it is also its architect. It preexists both conception and molecular organization in the womb and survives its destruction called 'death'.

Any given mental illness is paradoxically a healing process for the psyche/mind/soul, through the externalization of internal, unconscious conflicts and traumas. Although the genetic predisposition and effects of an illness are often physiological, their underlying cause isn't. Thus, it is in the historicity of the mind that researchers must look, expanding the 'birth>present' framework to 'past existences>present'.

While medication helps us minimize the symptoms, we must also look beyond the immediate questions of symptoms>treatment and ponder the purpose of an illness being present in the first place, what lessons can be taken from it and what can be done to speed up this ongoing healing process that is meant to restore our inner equilibrium, still in this lifetime, or the next.. Stay sharp and seek in the virtues of patience, acceptance and self-improvement the strength and faith to move on.

"This too shall pass"

Simon Baush


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