I have heard it said that there is a hierachical structure to consciousness that goes like this (from higher to lower):
- love
- anxiety
- depression
- shame
This can be useful if you are trying to get a grasp on how you are situated within an ideological world of social identity.
But what if you are not? What if that information does not help you get a handle on your experience of mental issues?
The Two things:
- You just try to keep trying
- Do something else
In the scheme of things of mental health, what someone says is “really” happening often has little to do with actually helping with the issue. Whether its your brain, parts of it, your soul, the diagnosis, a name for a problem…
In this sense it is not a calculous of 1 or 2, but of both.
The way to do something else is to understand what is happening. This can happen in any number of ways whether cognitive, emotional or some other way.
Understanding is not specifically and only cognitive, though cognitive comprehension can be helpful.
This might seem strange to some, especially if you are looking to get fixed, or to have something solved. Nonetheless this is where Mental Health Philosophy comes in, because Mental health is more than useful, it is the very manner by which you know what is happening. At every instance of experience, there is a relationship occurring within knowing like with nowhere and nothing else we can know.
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