Someone asked me what do I think about mental illness?
Mental ill health as defined by modern medicine is mostly caused by some kind of imbalance, be it hormonal, chemicals, or damages to the nervous systems. I am not a doctor, nor a psychiatrist or psychologist so my knowledge of that is limited.As the years go by, more and more mental disorder will be categorized.
Personally, I think some cases of mental ill health are caused by emotional and relationship break down thereby causing extreme stress. Our minds are able to take some stress but over time when such stress are not relieved or balanced up, there will be a break down. And we will do silly things like drugs and alcohol abuse for relief or we go on excessive eating spurts. On the reverse some go into involuntary fasting, such as in anorexia. I personally believe that we are not just flesh and bones. We are make up of the mind, body and we have a soul. When the mind and soul is out of sync with each other, all kinds of ill health (not only mental) occurs.
One final personal belief is that there are also unseen dark forces which modern scientific minds cannot comprehend. I have seen mental illness caused by such unknowns too, which medically cannot be explained.This I will call it as spiritual illness.
How to avoid mental and spiritual illness?
Living a balanced lifestyle is my recommendation.
As I have said above, we have a soul, a body and a mind. All these elements that I believe make us as human beings. So each of these must be cared for. We cannot feed our soul with material needs, neither can we feed our body with love. Rather our well being is dependent on a balanced diet for the soul, body and mind.
Our soul need nourishing by being connected with our Maker. Only God can feed our soul.
Our body need balanced nourishment, too much of junk food is harmful Eat well and sensibly.
Our mind needs feeding with the right stuff. Feed it with beautiful and positive thoughts. That means we mix with the right kind of people too.
I am sure you will be asking more about ‘how to’? More of how I would do these things in another time in another article if there is interest for discussions here.
