Miskien is dit nie die beste manier nie, maar wanneer ‘n mens sin probeer maak van tragedie soos Robin Williams se dood verkies ek ‘n holistiese benadering. Wat sê dit van ons siek wêreld as die hofnar homself uit die lewe uit help? Dit het my laat dink aan iets wat ek onlangs van Monica Cassani gelees het op haar Beyond Meds-blog. “Psychiatry makes out that the individual is sick. A much more honest as well as empowering way to view much mental anguish is to see ourselves as part of the web of life. Our despair is telling us something very real and valid. We should listen to it and pay attention and learn. Feeling pain is not a weakness, it is a capacity. We can learn to let it fuel us rather than cripple us.” Sy het ook voorheen geskryf: “Depression is always a mixture of many things… there is no such thing as a monolithic state called depression… the fact that people imagine that is the case, is a problem.”
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 09:45:50 +0000