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Holden

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The Anti-Psychiatry Stance
« Reply #30 on: July 19, 2024, 02:52:34 pm »
I really think coming across you has been the most pivotal event in my life. I made be much,much better equipped to tackle the crazy things that life keeps throwing at me.
Without that event, I would have been much more prone to succumbing to the Gort.
Anyway, I really hope your mother gets better soon. Bodily ailments can be really tough to deal with. I’m sure she’d pull through. She your mother after all.

Lately, I have been realising how useless words can be. Especially spoken words. My parents keep trying to bully me. I always end up regretting almost every word that I utter in their presence. I feel Hindi is not a language that one could speak with a great deal of precision and it creates more ambiguity than clarity. I wish I am never put into the position of having to speak again. I wish we could all communicate ,if we must, with the written word.But that's just fantasy.

The anti-Psychiatry stance is something I have been trying to explore. While I don’t think I agree all that much with Foucault, some of the things that he says about the institutions of the Hospital and that of the Psychiatry really hits home. In the training programme that I recently attended ,there were around fifteen participants. The trainer asked all of us to dance in a very ridiculous way. I was truly surprised that I was the only one to say no to him. I really thought more people would refuse to dance , but I was very wrong. Every single one of them dances.

Freaking dancing bears.

Take care.
La Tristesse Durera Toujours                                  (The Sadness Lasts Forever ...)
-van Gogh.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.-Camus