Everyone has a mental sickness,
but if you are not aware of it – it does you no harm.
What would you think is the key word in that sentence? “Sickness,” probably, but for those wanting to do The Thing – “you” is. Everyone has a mental sickness, but only if you are aware of it does it does it do you any harm. Sickness may seem too strong a word, yet, if any other organ in man’s body operated in the manner and with the degree of efficiency as does the brain via mental consciousness, it would easily be deemed ill and defective.
Amongst ordinary man, it takes extreme deviance from the prevailing collective norm for an individual to be seriously diagnosed by the group as having a “mental illness.” There is always much reluctance to so label a man, for it remains a stigma. Turned a bit sideways, it takes a lot of unruly behavior before the ruly are wont to call a man crazy. (You might note that the more civilized is the environment – the greater is the reluctance.
So while the word “sickness” may at first sound unfounded, when applied to everyone’s mental condition, (including the sane & normal), there is no more appropriate term when you impersonally consider the constant flow of flawed information. The brain feeds to thought that which results in useless and frustrating mental activity. A sickness, if there ever was one, but remember the opening statement: “A sickness, that if you are not aware of it does you no harm.” So everybody gets a cheap door prize and everyone goes back home in the car they came in.
According to commonly accepted Western history, a Mediterranean chap by the name of Adam was the first to display the obvious symptoms of this mental sickness, when his brain at first directed him to reach for a piece of delicious fruit on a tree, then suddenly and inexplicably told him not to eat it. (After that the malady spread quickly, and it was all downhill, mental health wise.)
J.