meditation as the non-entertainment non-industry

[kanzeon_2040]

I learned a valuable life lesson by crashing into a mental hospital and attending group therapy while there.

The lesson I learned from listening to other people in this place --> was that mental illness is often the result of refusing to accept reality.

It's one thing to want the world to be a better place. It's a different thing to refuse to

Comments

Part I

[matrixmann]

Hm... If you're talking about such not so deeply-rooted mental issues like depression or anxiety disorders, this seems okay - a very simplified way of looking at it -, but for personality disorders and complicated trauma-related consequential damages, I think that's a way of making things simpler to oneself than they are, putting the blame back to the victim. "Why don't you let go of your trauma-related character features? Oh, you must be wanting it not strong enough, not be ready enough to work on them... Your mind is weak." - this is typical American "everyone is the architect of its own fortune, everyone can still make if from rags to riches if they just work hard enough, no matter how bad the starting conditions"-bullshit

Part II

[matrixmann]

For example: If there have been people out there beating you up for being gay for 30 years, you won't ever let go of the caution to avoid situations in which that can potentially happen again. 'Cause to society, it's never going to be like heterosexuality - because being gay is a minority type of human sexuality. So you're always going to meet people in society, even the most tolerant and accepting ones, that have a personal problem with that.
And by that, you're never going to be able to erase the possibility of getting beaten up again for it. You won't be able to live as unconcerned as a heterosexual person.