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I would agree with you that most of our mental and emtional health conditions are both within us and within a context, and that being “crazy” can be a perfectly
by llamataboot 5y ago
I would agree with you that most of our mental and emtional health conditions are both within us and within a context, and that being “crazy” can be a perfectly good and even useful and healthy response to an insane world.
But I assure you, I had no desire to stay in the state I was in which was dull grey, numb, dissociated, and isolated. I spent enough years meditating with it that I wasn’t intensely suffering without exactly, though i can’t say I ever got to acceptance and peace. But I wanted something different for my one finite life.
- podgaj 5y agoIt’s not about desire. It’s about acceptance. You don’t desire to be in it or out of it, you accept it and understand it. What I’m getting at I can’t really describe in words because it’s more of an experience. But for people who have depression (not sadness) It is a therapy in an understanding that works. When you accept something you don’t need to be different. And the burden you are released of is immense. And that is when you’re suffering goes away. You’re still depressed, but you’re not suffering.
- mbrodersen 5y agoIt sounds to me that you are describing the Stoic ideas of acceptance or the Acceptance Theory way of dealing with mental issues. It all works.