For many people the term mental health is synonymous with the absence of symptoms. With this outlook our mental health rests in positive emotion, our ability to cope, maintain emotional balance, and adjust to the world and society. Viewing mental health in such a way leaves little room for good or evil, high or low, or better or worse ways of adjusting, or of experiencing certain symptoms. So what would a psychology of value look like, and how mentally healthy are we when viewed through that psychology? These questions were the subject of Kazimierz Dabrowski's formidable intellect over the course of his entire career.
So join us today, on the Truth Perspective, as we use Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration to explore and add real depth to the concept of mental health, also utilizing insights gained from our discussions on the hypnotic power of the crowd, Paul and the Stoics, and experiments into the nature of consciousness, today we're taking a new look at what mental health really is for us in this crazy, upside-down world.
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The single biggest factpr is you average (most) persons' inabilitly to 'handle the truth', to the point that they shut out real reality - which is harder than ever politely avoid, and so as to please their perceptions of their neighors/the crowd, the follow through with what they THINK everyone else thinis. (They have HUGE cognitive dissonance from 9/11/2001, because their souls know that the laws of physics did not get suspended that day, and that even with the criminally skimpy MSM coverage, they KNOW that the official story is a poorly told after-the-fact lie - which they yet believe that all their neighbords believe (though in their hears they do not) while the neighbors actually have the same, scaredy-cat view of 'reality.'
The perfect analogy (but with far less excuses now) is the Emperor's New Clothes. (Mark Twains writings, especcially in the Twentieth Century covered these facts wonderfully.)
Everyone KNOWS 9/11/01 was an inside job; but try bringing that up at your job at lunch and see what happens.
Folks are also overwhelmed and afraid from information (truthful) overload, so they turn to the comfort-food of the MSM.
R.C.