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RE: Mental Illness & Shamanic Experiences (podcast/video)
Do you mean like, some people are normal so they seem like they're crazy? Or that everyone is deluded and mentally ill are just figments of their imaginations? Haha.
Mental illness in some if not many cases is a response to the environment.
There was a doctor of some sort from India that moved a mentally ill patient to Africa to live a completely different life. The (previous) mental illness vanished.
Yes, very interesting. I haven't read that case, but there was a similar case where a boy moved from a western country to Africa, talked to shamans, and they said that he was becoming a healer, so of course he responded differently. I guess it's like they say, it's no measure of health to be well-adapted to a sick society.
Yes. Really is no measure. Last year I was living free mostly in the woods. Coming back to the other / society life. But unfortunately got Meningitis and this mental illness is an illness. But I find to be great increased by people's ill informed minds and this includes doctors and lawyers...
Yes, it's hard to find a good doctor sometimes.
I may mean there is no normal, everyone seems crazy, everything is deluded, and it all makes good fig newtons that should just be eaten by hungry people so they aren't so hungry anymore.
Maybe hunger is our most true form of suffering and the rest is a delusion in response to what we think in response to what another thinks. hence not being our thoughts. As none of our thoughts are truly our own as we think outside and inside ourselves but not of ourselves. Hence the inner and outer delusion!