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Acceptance and Mental Health

Presenter:

School of Life

Time:

6:31

Summary

No one wants to fall mentally ill. Yet, paradoxically, our insistence on always maintaining perfect mental health may make us more susceptible to becoming unwell.

Transcript

One of the Great's contributing factors to mental illness is the idea that we should at all costs, and at all times be well, we suffer far more than we should.


Because of how long it can take many of us until we allow ourselves to fall properly and usefully ill. In a crisis, our chances of getting better rely to a significant extent, on having the right relationship to our illness, an attitude which is relatively unknown, frightened by our distress, which isn't overly in love with the idea of seeming at all times normal, which can allow us to be deranged for a while, in order one day to reach a more authentic kind of sanity. And it will help us immensely in this quest.

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