I feel like I have grasped bits and pieces of existence, but have yet to discover the whole picture.
It’s unlikely that I will in this lifetime, but I know that mental illness is an important component of understanding ourselves.
I think that the unique way each of our brains operate gives us millions of windows through which to understand life.
For example, did you know that about one in every eight people experience a ‘mystical vision‘ which, might also be what we diagnose as Dissociation?
I will not go so far as to say that mental illnesses are good; but there is something that we need to learn from them.
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