MENTAL ILLNESS

The reason we have mental illness, addiction and emotional issues are because they DEFEND AND PRTECT US.

We NEED the dissociation that comes with mental illness and emotional issues, to "escape" the situations we find ourselves in that feel scary, dangerous, life threatening, etc. 

The most troublesome feeling felt by human beings is loneliness...an aching, a feeling like something is "missing." We do everything we can to escape this feeling but never try to understand it - what we crave is connection. 

Some connect through sex, others through hugs, others through intellectual conversations, video games, online porn, fantasy play, etc. There are infinite points of connection between us that fill us with a feeling of connectedness, and there are infinite points of disconnection between us that result in small splits in mood and personality - disassociations.

Many actions we take and thoughts we entertain split us from ourselves, and other. But we NEED these splits - it is how we survive painful situations....but there is another way...

Leave the situation, leave the pain, protect yourself, and there will be no reason to disasscoiate.

Historically, human beings shut down physically and sometimes intellectually and inter-personally, when incurring abuse for long period of time. This is how psychology came into being. 

In the early days of psychology, Sigmund Freud observed that when women didn't want to do their wifely duties, their bodies shut down instead of allowing their spiritual selves to continue to be used against their will. Freud felt women were dangerous sexually, in need of direction and control.

When we feel defeated, as if there is no hope, we as a species "surrender," and wait to die - animals do this in the wild all the time. Women were labeled, "hysterical," when they could no longer surrender their bodies and lives to husbands, brothers, uncles, cousins and fathers who hurt them.

Hysteria was the first diagnosis in psychology - and it has plagued women ever since - but was it a mental illness or an innate defense mechanism to a life no human being should have to endure?

Are YOUR defense mechanisms mental illness? Or are you just sick of being hurt emotionally and made to think you are the problem - and instead your subconscious has surrendered to defeat, and simply "tuned out?"