SCHIZO TALK / Mark

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Hi Mark,

 

The issue of mental disease and treatment of such is something that appears on

the list with some regularity.

 

I really share with you the thoughts you present here.

 

Including the ones about Michael, Ivan and Harsha.

 

 

Love,

 

Amanda.

 

 

 

 

On Mon, 06 Nov 2000 14:45:23 Mark Otter wrote:

>I dislike the mental model, wherein there are

>healthy "normal" people, and that deviation from some perceived static

>"health" is considered pathological and requiring of immediate reversal,

>often via drugs. I wonder if the treatment my brother had wasn't part

>of his problem?

 

As a scientist, you know how difficult it is to differentiate between a disease

that may or may not lead to permanent damage / change to neurons in the living

brain and the treatment with its often serious side effects that may also cause

permanent damage or pathological change. This is a difficult medical,

pharmacological and anatomical question that there doesn't seem to be clear

answers to yet.

 

I am here by far /not/ suggesting that serious mental disease should go

untreated , just pointing out the difficulties in differentiation b/n damage

done by the illness and that done by medication to reduce symptoms of the

illness. This may be the case also for other diseases than schizophrenia and

serious mental disease.

 

>I have seen in the holotropic breathwork I have done

>that my own inner healer and the inner healer of others I have sat for

>sometimes takes us into "pathological" mind states, which often upon

>"re-entry" leaves us more healthy rather than less healthy.

>I wish for our

>healing professionals the grace to learn how to allow nature's design to

>unfold within a loving and safe environment to the extent possible. On

>the other hand, I can see that one man's temporary healing mental state

>may be another's organic damage beyond the ability of man and nature to

>heal. and for these tragically affected folks, I can only offer my

>deepest compassion and my sincere hopes that our understanding of the

>brain and mind will improve to allow for succor. Any way, I suspect my

>brother's case was of the former rather than the latter, but will never

>know and I encourage us all to learn what we can about our minds so that

>we can relieve both our own and other's suffering.

>

>Michael, you know I love you, and Ivan, I find that I love you as well.

>Now, that hooligan Harsha is a different matter... (oh, just kidding you

>gentle man. I love you too. - now THAT's psychosis... he, he, he...)

>

>Love, Mark

 

 

 

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