The Philosophy Of Mental Illness

~ Gottfried

We’re all mostly insane. I visited a family once and I must say that even though insanity didn’t run in that family, I’m convinced it strolled through, taking time to get to know each of them personally. I should have known. The first warning sign was that they all talked at the top of their voice. This one time the dad was speaking to me, and I had to remind him, in the most respectful manner, that I was only just five feet away, and that I could hear him clearly. He paused for a bit and increased the volume. Crase

What is Mental illness? Mental illness in it’s purest form is shaving off your entire eyebrows, only to draw them back on with a pencil. It doesn’t get more accurate than that. A close second will be shaving your entire hair and then proceeding to prance around in a wig. While we’re on the subject of dressing, if you live in the tropics, and I catch you on a hot Sunday afternoon in a three-piece suit, I’m 100% calling the cops on your arse. Since you don’t know how to act.

If you get offended by being called fat. Fat people have come up with so many fancy excuses for their condition. “I’m not fat, I’m chubby”. You’re right, you’re actually obese. “Don’t call me fat, I have weight and I know how to carry it”. The funniest one I’ve heard in a while is, “I’m not fat, I’m big-boned.” I’ll have you know that the Blue whale has the largest bone in the animal kingdom ever discovered. So rather than say you’re fat, can I just call you ‘whale’ instead?. Wait, why are you picking up a stone?

Beating up kids. Now I can empathize with a school sending the kids home for owing school fees, but what exactly does beating them beforehand do to help? I mean it’s bad enough my dad is poor and can’t pay my fees, in addition, you’re punishing me for the sins of my father. Will it hasten the payment? The same applies to parents. So your kid isn’t doing great at school and your reaction is to deprive them of any fun? What happens when despite this, their grades don’t improve? You go ahead to suck the life out of the poor kid? You’re ill!

Anxiety is the devil. The human body is 80% water, so we’re basically just cucumbers with anxiety. Every time you say to yourself, “What could possibly go wrong?” and Anxiety is gonna be like, “I’m glad you asked”. Anxiety really just stops your life. It’s funny that there are so many people who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it to their kids.  How to deal with anxiety? You don’t, it deals with you.

Mental illness is real. It occurred to me that many people are actually afraid to heal because their entire identity is centered around the trauma they’ve experienced. They have no idea who they are outside the trauma and that unknown can be terrifying. It’s worse when people try to argue about what you’re experiencing. So the next time someone tells you that mental illness is all in your head tell them; “Well duh, where else is it going to be, my kidneys?”

I’d like to conclude by saying that there are actual people with these mental disorders, who still somehow, despite their clear and obvious limitations, find a way to be decent human beings. Then there’s you, who thinks being called bipolar is some sort of compliment. You hide under the umbrella of being bipolar to mask the fact that you’re indeed a poor excuse for a human being. If I catch you giving someone a hard time, you gonna catch a fade.

and it won’t be from a barbershop.

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596 thoughts on “The Philosophy Of Mental Illness”

  1. Having 4 of my family members with serious mental illness issues and some of the others falling into the phylosophy of… I’m not sure what to think. I did just water my garden and brought in the biggest cucumbers imaginable so I think I’m going to juice and water my kidneys or brain or both and maybe it will wash out the wine and bring me to 80 % water.
    😂

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          1. 🤜❤️🤛 Me either, lol. thanks much!
            Now you’re talking! I’m imagaining the livestream bath as we speak.💚
            I actually know it well as I have a lake house in Clearlake, Ca.

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  6. Years ago there was one student in the school where I worked who got grounded for everything. It was almost abusive. I said to the parents, instead of grounding him, what I do with my kids is I have a job-jar. If they get in trouble they have to pick out a job to do. Well he did that and then the student came back complaining that all he was doing was jobs around his house. WTF!

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      1. Honestly, I have no idea. The last thing I heard was that his father turned him over to the state. So sad. He was a good kid. His stepmother hated him and they ended up having two babies. I’d love to find him someday but it scares me too.

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          1. The key word is “deserves”. Why have them if you don’t want them and if you have them by accident give them to a family that will give them total love. There are options, maybe not easy options, but better options than abuse or neglect.

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  7. I don’t feel anxiety deals with you. Anxiety hijacks fear if you allow it. Feat , once you’re past ego being a bad thing, and have come to the point that fear and ego are teammates composing sentries blipping as radar, something wonderfully strange happens. Ego feed fear the Vanity nourishment of, “you look better with a head than without one,” and fear says, “DUCK!” It’s when one allows anxiety to hijack fear and torture it and distort it into being afraid, that’s the problem, that’s the issue. Fear, healthy and honest ear? It contributes not a, “don’t throw caution to the wind.” Fear contributes a conscientious and unconsciously intuitive navigation tool. “Steer clear of the cone zone, unless your car can fly. The bridge is out ahead. Take notice.” That what fear does, informs our awareness to take notice. Anxiety.? Well, anxiety is that place of everyone’s good at something, and anxiety is good at fueling being afraid. That is t say, anxiety is good at something. Anxiety os excellent at being a dick to outer dreams… and not to fertilize them.”

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      1. Yup, and when it turns them in on themselves it puts them in a terrible bind of frustration, confusion, and worry… all of which 20 SECONDS OF DETACHMENT BREATHING can help them at least get a slice of a glimpse of hope and a way out of it. Anxiety is terribly dangerous and feeds on worry, which it doses into the system in the 1st place.

        It’s not always a quick fix, though from where I am now, I have my internal bouncer simply say, “NOPE, not dressed well enough. Not on the list. Not getting into the club. NEXT!”

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          3. Yes, and more than anything to play the forgetting is for getting game with the nasty stuff that already got in to hear it fully and either have it transform to integrate and dose ourselves with more of ourselves, or leave sloughed off like chaff from wheat in the wind. As I wrote in a poem back in 2002. The snake its skin shedded, The snake its skin not missed… as… wonderful, look at all these pretty colors of me now refreshed.

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          4. More simply put: I’m no enabler to anxiety. And, when necessary, the whole-body listening eyebrows skeptically up in an “are you sure?” non-verbal vigilante. Hmmmm… somebody wants to play. You know that old quote… “I want to to be that person who when I wake up in the morning the Devil goes, ‘Oh shit.’ ” 🙂

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  10. Wait, so people actually think being called “bipolar” is a compliment. That’s some serious twisted mindset, wow!

    Uhh, mental illness is such a sensitive topic so I really love the humouring touch you made to this.
    Bien hecho amor.

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