Who is ill?
At 39 years old I have had three decades of feeling “weird”. Being “over sensitive”, labelled “depressive” or “anxious”. I’ve had nearly two decades of being medicated: To help me build “resilience” and to bolster me enough to “cope”. But wait...... What if I’m not the one who is sick? What if my reactions to this world are the RIGHT reactions? What if crying because people are starving, suffering, homeless is a NORMAL thing? What if being depressed by a truly depressing world is EXACTLY right? What if, just what if.. Being DEsensitised is wrong? Ritalin, Antidepressants, beta blockers, stiff upper lips, backbones, tough skin.... all designed to make us less vigilant. Less alert. Less sensitive. The more I see the people most affected by life the more I realise... The problem is not with them. It is with the world they are being asked to accept. Mental Health is not the CAUSE of the depressive pandemic sweeping the U.K. it is the symptom ...