{"id":11229,"date":"2023-01-02T13:17:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T13:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/?p=11229"},"modified":"2023-01-03T13:07:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T13:07:32","slug":"mental-illnesses-are-meaningful-whirlpools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/healthcare\/mental-illnesses-are-meaningful-whirlpools","title":{"rendered":"Mental Illnesses are Meaningful Whirlpools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Especially relevant in the complexity of the human mind is the complexity of what meaningfulness can bring us and where it can go awry.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Many diseases are the result of some whirlpool phenomenon<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Truly meaningful<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mental illness is not conceptually<\/em> meaningful. Therefore, it is difficult to pinpoint or explain what it is about. Any conceptual explanation does not touch the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If real meaningfulness is present, it is a deeper one. It is subconceptual<\/a>, more distributed (in deeper layers of one\u2019s mental landscape), and powerful even without or before any whirlpool. Therefore, it may lie closer to the truth at a deeper level, being symbolically<\/a> correct. In a culture that deeply values the symbolic, such a person may be a visionary or mystic. In another culture, that same person is a madman. In reality, it is not one apart from the other. Both assertions are correct \u2015 depending on the culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A deeply meaningful culture values deep meaningfulness \u2015 even potentially in the madmen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The real illness starts when it becomes a whirlpool.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus, illness doesn\u2019t start with the symbolic, but how this is managed further. People should be entitled to \u2018go symbolic\u2019 without being called \u2018mad.\u2019 Sometimes, the same is called \u2018genial.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within a whirlpool however, symbolism is getting out of control \u2015 not just conscious, but total-being control. We can call this condition an illness because it can severely hamper one\u2019s quality of life. That doesn\u2019t yet make it an illness in the classical medical sense of plug-in, plug-out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fighting against the whirlpool risks driving more energy inside it, aggravating the problem. Probably, this is the most frequent way it truly becomes a problem in the first place. Unfortunately, much Western management of mental illness is bent on such fighting-against, one way or another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Including efforts to escape<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An effort to escape the whirlpool is frequently seen as a part\/symptom of mental illness. For instance, anorexia, self-injuring, addictive behavior, or one\u2019s attention running wild may be functional in giving, at least, a sense of control over the whirlpool phenomenon inside one\u2019s mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In many cases, fighting against such efforts to escape the whirlpool is notoriously ineffective. We can see two obvious reasons now: 1) It\u2019s a fight against the defense itself, and 2) It puts even more energy inside the whirlpool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All in all, the illness lies in the whirlpool, not in the separate elements that produce it. Least of all does it lie in the meaningfulness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honoring the meaning<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The aim is to let the meaning flow straight forward again. In the stream containing the whirlpool, this draws the energy out of the latter. The deeper meaning can thus flow better in the direction it is supposed to flow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This enables the person to see the symbolism for what it is or can be: meaningful at the deeper level \u2015 thus, not to be discarded. In the best case, it may be transformed into a precious asset such as art or profoundly meaningful literature. Of course, it may also be just a profoundly meaningful personal life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such a shame that this gets frequently incarcerated in a mental jail of antipsychotics, antidepressants, or other anti-human-depth medications. So obvious that we end up in an increasingly harsh meaning crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We should listen profoundly<\/a> to those who can tell us the most about it.<\/p>\n

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