It is through education we face any challenge present to us, establishing a personal shield against any belief that is not built on top of a scientific ground, or in the inability of getting scientific proof, personal experiences performed within our own perspective and relativity. Our personal shield gets on through education but we have to be prepared for the manade effect, the following of a belief out of understanding. Social isolation may be the result of not following the negative conditioning imposed in the environment we live in, as consciousness is able to recognise, as clear as crystal, its presence. The more we put our trust on our consciousness, and the capability to step out of a period of suffering derived from negative conditioning, the more we are able to understand the manade effect is a trace of discrimination.


Discrimination is the use of differences as a clear or hidden justifications to not get along with someone else, no matter the circumstances. Sometimes we are not able to be in the presence of a given person because something in his/her character may cause the manifestation of negative emotions within the self, and therefore we are experiencing suffering through the face of discrimination. When such a suffering state is growing, we have to "make sure" such specific person would not be able to walk within our vicinity, not succeeding in anything that he/she enrols on, providing us the "justification" to say he/she has a problem, "we already knew that", and if that problem is not to be found physical, it must be psychological, "a mental disorder". That is our internal state of suffering saying another person is sick, when in fact, we are not able to evaluate our own internal state through the use of our own education and consciousness.


From time to time, when we get conscious about such discriminatory state of suffering we may be cultivating within for a while, we may get the self classifying another person as sick, dumb, crazy, mad, even if we do not know such a person. 


Buddha, the enlightened one, has provided wonderful teachings about the capability of the self to understand our own suffering, and our inability to understand anything on the outside related to the mind. Those wonderful teachings of Buddha are supported by the studies of the renowned psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, which we can get a taste from the next passage [1]:


"I formed the idea that psychiatry was medical counterfeiting when I was quite young. Much later, I decided to qualify as a psychoanalytic psychiatrist to be in position to analyse and address the subject intelligently and with authority4. In 1960, I published my paper “The Myth of Mental Illness” and, a year later, my book with the same title. These and some of my later writings, especially The Manufacture of Madness, undermined the medical legitimacy of the notion that mental illness—-that is, behaviors not attributable to bodily lesions—-are diseases, and generated a reaction revealingly called the “remedicalization of psychiatry”. There is considerable psychiatric literature on this subject. Typically, remedicalization is defined as “the refocusing of scientific advances in neurobiology and neuroscience as they affect psychiatric diagnosis and treatment, increased psychiatrist involvement in the treatment of the physically ill and in organized medicine.”5.

The zeal for remedicalization culminates in physicians claiming all of human life for a medicalized psychiatry and psychiatrized medicine, epitomized by a demand for the abolition of the term mental illness and the quasi-theological faith in the claim that all mental illnesses are, eo ipso, brain diseases.".


As we can see in the well-explained passage, the renowned psychiatrist Thomas Szasz has studied, and published the results of his studies to ensure there is no scientific proof on the idea of considering mental distress as a disease like, e.g., cancer. However, we still see, even with the lack of scientific proof in more recent research work [2], that the manade effect regarding what we call "mental disorder" is still in a dominant role.


We can use our consciousness, enforcing the practise of our body and mind training, to be able to recognise, analyse, and understand our own suffering. The more we do it, the more we diminish its negative effects.


References

[1] Thomas Szasz, Psychiatry: The Science of Lies. Syracuse University Press. New York, USA, 2008. Pp. 87-88.

[2] Kate Allsopp; John Read; Rhiannon Corcoran; Peter Kinderman, Heterogeneity in Psychiatry Diagnostic Classification. Psychiatry Research. vol. 279. Sep 2019.


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Written by Jeferson Souza (thejefecomp).


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