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 of a far greater sickness. A sickness at the core of our society. 

A LACK of sensitivity. 

I’m not saying that mental illnesses don’t exist or that they don’t require treatment. I’m not anti medication or anti pharmaceutical. 

I’m saying it’s concerning that it is required so much and is so readily available. 

To treat what?

A normal human reaction to an inhuman state of affairs? 

Are we supposed to face debt, illness, death, war, separation and pressure without reacting? Is THAT normal?

So maybe, just maybe, we need to move away from prognosis, labelling and “cures” and look at the source of the sickness. 

Where is the inhumanity coming from? Who are the people treating other lives with contempt? Who profits from the destruction and death? Find these things and you will find the poison that is causing us, quite rightly, to express our sorrow and pain. 



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  1. SENDavidFebruary 28, 2021 at 12:28 AM

    "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."

    Exactly! Thanks, David.

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    1. MissyMusician81March 11, 2021 at 10:33 PM

      It has helped me to start to accept and value my emotional responses David. Society teaches us that it is wrong to feel too much but we live in an overstimulated world. Feeling too much is almost inevitable! Embrace it and realise you are not “wrong”!!

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