From what I've learned chatting with and observing the emigration crowd, people in America are really crazy about medication such as anti-depressants and overuse them massively. What they show in movies and other media proves it as some destinctive cultural feature. Many people who emigrate go mentally ill and troubled, in proportions which are scary and seem abnormal; they use drugs a lot. In my opinion Americans rely on medication too much, much more than needed or more importantly safe.
The science of soul itself seems to be overly self-righteous and biased. As a psychiatrist, I once watched on YouTube, said something like:
A healthy human being shows diverse reactions and behaviours, human soul is infinite. Disease, on the other hand, is when reactions are limited and one-sided. There are billions of us. What is a norm? It is non-existent. And when we enforce it, we force limited one-sided behaviour on an invidividual, thus making him ill.
What I like about Christianity (being an atheist) is this concept of free will. No matter what, you make choices and your own soul is yours and only yours domain. Even god himself has no power over it. Somehow, soul scientists decided they have this power while you most amusing have not. Maybe they do not assert it directly, but their science and industry (the right word for modern medicine) work exactly like if this assertion was made. And they deform our mentality so that even our guts distinct "scientifical" crazy from "scientifical" norm.
Brain is highly adaptable and reactive structure. For example, if you drink a spirit for the first time in your life you get drunk easily. The more you drink over your life the more difficult it is to get drunk. Surely they have a scientific explanation for it which lies in chemistry. But brain is all about overcoming chemistry and physical laws altogether. When you have consumed enough alcohol in your life, even in intoxicated state you will retain crucial mental capabilities, compared to an alcohol newbie. All said is true for any thinkable affect, even sex. There are even cases when individuals who got serious head injuries are able to recover some or all of the lost functions through different parts of their brain. Brain is the apogee of Life's tendency known as homeostasis.
You do not need to be a rocket scientist (or a paranoid schizophrenic like myself) to see that there's a natural interest for a medical industry to staff patients with medication making them dependable on it. Instead of a treatment which really solves the problem. And what's that? The thing which changes you not just affects you. Although, I am sure (from what I know) there are non-medical practices also which work the same way as medication: only affect you and make you dependable.
Your soul is no leg. Your leg is just an object. Whether it is broken or not is easily recognizable, and there's a well-defined procedure on healing it. Your soul is an absolute subject. So there are no defined procedures or recognitions about it at all. Actually, your soul is the instrument and source of any procedure or recognition. You are equal in that to any other soul out there, be it expert's or not. And when it comes to your own soul, you are the only expert. Just recollect this fact from your intrinsic birth knowledge. The only key to your soul is you yourself. Never delegate the authority over your soul to somebody else, because you risk to give up away part of that what makes you human (such giving up is also where inferiority complex comes from).
Not only your "mental arms" are the only tool really capable to manipulate your soul, they are much much longer and dexterous than the society or doctors make you think.
Many of the problems of modern humans come from concentrating on insignificant things. This is a luxury. We are so well settled in the world in this age that we do not need to trouble ourselves with survival, basic health or comfort, they are all there already, and so we have time and opportunity to be gays, fat or to go schizophrenic. We trouble ourselves with tiny little things and hyperbolize them so that sometimes they become a real problem. We live an artificial life not in accordance to our bodies as they are by nature. But there's still homeostasis and our bodies struggle for it and suffer chronicly from unavailability of natural stances. I am sure many of those psyche diseases originate from this and are not diseases at all but symptoms and consequences of this lack of naturality. So the real treatment (plus to being the authority over your own soul, because it's only you to decide whether your soul has problems or not) here should be putting more nature into your life: from hard physical work to literally being in nature. And change of environment.
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