You Are Not “Mentally Unwell”
Disclaimer:
I am not a medical professional and this article or any other articles in this blog can not and should not be used as advice on your own mental health. Mental health is a very complex subject and everyone’s treatment for mental health will be unique to them. I am in no way in this article advising anyone at all that they should stop whatever treatment they are taking and am not in this article advising anyone to stop whatever medications they are taking. This article and others on this blog are simply by own ideas and opinions on the subject. Please consult your own doctor for advice on the correct treatment options for you. I intend no harm in this article to anyone and are just sharing my own ideas on the topic of mental health.
I WILL NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE IF THIS ARTICLE OR OTHERS ON THIS BLOG HARM OTHERS IN SOME WAY AND THIS ISN’T MY INTENTION.
Anyhow, let’s get into this article!
The first thing I wish to say in this article is that you are not “mentally unwell” and the grouping of mental wellness by people that work in the mental health world of “mentally well” and “mentally unwell” is based on incorrect assumptions about mental health. There is so much variation and diversity of mental wellness and no two people have the exact same level of mental wellness. This article is going to be a supplementary article on the series of articles I have done on the subject of mental health. You can read the other articles I have posted on this blog about mental health below:
Things That Have Helped My Own Mental Health
In the other articles I made on mental health as a passing remark I included some insight into this notion that people involved in the mental health world are not “mentally well” or “mentally unwell” and I intend in this article to expand upon this idea a little more in the hope it will make people who have some sort of mental illness or have in the past been “mentally unwell” realize they are not or were not “mentally unwell” as much as the doctors and consultants would have you believe this.
Where is the line drawn between “mentally well” and “mentally unwell”? Who is it that says certain actions are “mentally well” and these actions are “mentally unwell”? The whole concept of calling people either “mentally well” or “mentally unwell” is just a made-up thing and in no way relates to the reality of what being involved in mental health actually is like. There is no such thing as being “mentally unwell”, you are the exact same person as you were before people started labelling you “mentally unwell”, literally nothing has changed inside yourself. Even if you have symptoms of a mental illness such as schizophrenia, this doesn’t mean you are “mentally unwell”, you are still just as sane as the rest of us.
An important thing to realize as well, that a sign of good mental health is the ability to openly express and experience what others or you may call “bad mental health”.
I have seen this trend with people that suffer from mental health myself included that they feel the need to hide their bad mental health or suffering from others. I feel that its important to be able to express your mental health whether that be good mental health or bad mental health, burying and hiding from others your bad or declining mental state or suffering is extremely detrimental for your mental health and no good can come from it. No, I am not advocating for people to intentionally become unwell, but my argument is that hiding bad mental health is not the correct thing to do and that you should overcome this fear or worry that you shouldn’t express your bad mental health to people.
Another point I want to make absolutely clear in this article is that even if you are declared “mentally unwell” and even if you yourself actually believe that you are or were “mentally unwell” you are still just as sane, reasonable and rationale as the rest of us. If a war veteran who saw very distressing things in battle, saw his best friends being blown to pieces and developed PTSD (post-traumatic stress syndrome) and was declared “mentally unwell”, would this be correct? His response to extremely distressing and traumatic things does not in anyway shape or form mean he is “mentally unwell” – he is still as sane and reasonable as the rest of us.
Everyone has their own response to traumatic and distressing things and how they respond to such events in no way means that they are “mentally unwell”. I guess the point I wish to make is there are perhaps many people involved in the mental health world who have experienced very difficult things and each person’s response is unique to them and how they choose to respond in no way means that they are “mentally unwell”.
What’s more I would go as far as to say that being “mentally unwell” doesn’t actually exist - everyone has their own reason and rationale for doing the actions that they do – even people who act very psychotic or violent. As well even if someone tries to appear unwell and tries to convince others there is something wrong with them, they still have their own reason and rationale for doing this. Even if everyone around you genuinely believes and treats you as someone who is “mentally unwell” you are still as sane and reasonable and rationale as the rest of us.
I am so tired of this level of thinking from people that work in the mental health field that you were really “unwell” in hospital and that if your medication is stopped you will really quickly become “mentally unwell”. As well a point I wish to make on medication is that the medication used to treat whatever mental health illness they believe you have does a lot more that simply “fix” your mental health symptoms, most antipsychotic medication have issues of weight gain, increase in sleep and some that I myself have had cause sexual dysfunction (due to the raised prolactin). What really gets me as well is that some nurses and consultants will see you wanting to stop medication as a sign that you are becoming “mentally unwell”, when the case is usually that you wish to stop medication because of the side effects of taking it.
Furthermore, I feel that the medication used in mental health just so happens to help mental health. I have had several dreams about the topic of medication that involves the doctors and nurses trying to find completely unrelated things to mental health with various chemical compounds that may help mental health. I feel the efforts to find medications that help mental health is no different to testing if something completely unrelated to mental health has any impact on mental health. Point being is that the medications used in mental health attempt to fix a problem by fixing something that doesn’t actually cause the mental health.
In fact, I feel that the chemical compounds used in medications that have found to be useful and help mental illnesses I believe are not “by design” made to actually help any sort of mental health illness – it just so happens that these specific chemical compounds used in medications were found to help mental health illnesses in the trials and studies that were done on them. I feel an apt analogy with this is that books were designed to be read by people, but yet they will make good wood fire – they by design were made to be read and not to be used as wood fire – it just so happens that they are useful for wood fire. Equally with the medications used in mental health, it just so happens that the specific chemical compounds used in the medication seems to help mental health. As well an important point to note is that nobody actually knows why the medications used in mental health actually work, they know the how’s and what they are supposed to do, but there is very little detail on why they actually work and the long term effects of taking antipsychotic medications is not well researched, especially the new trend of using depot injection medication instead of tablets which in my mind is nothing short of evil because injection harms the internal organs as I have discovered.
It’s my view that the brain isn’t the cause of mental illness or bad mental health and that all the efforts to use brain altering medications that change the way the brain works is like trying to fix a stab wound by drinking alcohol – drinking alcohol may stop the pain for a short while, but the fact remains there is still a stab wound. From the dreams that I have had on finding the chemical compounds that will fix mental health from people that work in mental health I will say that they try to fix the issue of mental health the wrong way. Mental health isn’t something to be fixed by way of taking any kind of chemical compound because it isn’t the brain, which is the cause of mental illness, more so I feel the brain simply reflects the mental health traits that the person experiences – not the cause. This is the same view helped by Gabor Mate in his latest book “The Myth of Normal”.
Also, a note on the topic of the brain being the cause of mental illness or bad mental health, the general consensus is that it’s “chemical imbalances” which cause mental illness, but yet this doesn’t at all explain why it is that certain people supposedly have chemical imbalances while other don’t. On the subject of mental illness, it is my view that people incarnate on earth with having those various traits and no amount of taking medication will ever truly fix their issues with mental illness. But in fact, people voluntarily choose to incarnate on earth with those mental illness traits to experience what it is like to live with those issues and generally such people are very advanced. I also believe that mental illness can be caused while in incarnation such as the example I gave of war veterans experiencing extremely distressing and traumatic things or such as when a woman is attacked by someone, and they have mental health issues because of it.
I also just want to add before I end this article that people with genuine mental health conditions implies that the person is slightly more advanced that the average person on earth and they are brave enough to follow a journey in life whereby they have these mental health difficulties. The people that take on this life are to be celebrated and congratulated for having the bravery to undergo such a difficult incarnation.
In conclusion, you are not “mentally unwell” and anyone that says you are, are simply wrong and ill informed. There is no such thing as being “mentally unwell” – everyone no matter what state they are in, what emotions they give off, what they say or do are as sane and reasonable as the rest of us. The people that define mental health as either “mentally well” and “mentally unwell” know nothing about mental health. There is so much diversity and variety in mental health that to label it as just “mentally well” or “mentally unwell” is not correct. Being able to express so called “bad mental health” is in fact a sign of “good mental health” and medications for mental health do a lot more than fix mental illness symptoms. As well medications do not directly fix mental illnesses and they are not “by design” perhaps not meant to be used for mental health patients. As well I want to lastly add here that I in no way intend for anyone in this article to stop the medications they are taking or change treatment, my intention with this article and all articles is to inform others of my ideas and opinions on the subjects I talk about and maybe help others in some small way.
Update 1: 04/01/24
I also want to make a statement here that if mental health consultants were actually effective in treating mental heatlh, then by there would be no patients for them to treat and they would be out of a job.
Thus pharmacutical companies invent drugs and pay the people that work in the menal health industry to promote the idea that you have to keep taking the medication in order to remain well with the hope that they can profit at the expense of the many people that take those drugs.
Another note I wish to make is that I did have a dream about medications in 2023 and the consultants that worked in mental health were looking for some obscure drug from mosquitos that has certain properties that somehow aided in mental health. The point I wish to make is that the chemical compounds in medication are just that chemical compounds and do a lot more than just “fix” or “alleviate” mental heatlh symptoms and also they I argue are not specifically designed to be used in mental health - it just so happens that the mental health professionals we have, have found that these certain chemical compounds somehow are effective in making mental heatlh patients less ill.
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