The mind is the man.We do not carry the mind.Rather the mind carries us.To tame this mind is the feat of the wise.He who has no bother for the mind is an under-man.Contrarily,he who is obsessed by it is a sick man.And, these days,so universally oppressive has this`obsession'become that sanity is degraded to the level of eccentricity,as if talking sense is talking nonsense.Social Therapeutics has therefore gained so vital a science for many a doctor to pursue and practise.But instead of cleansing the minds of their patients, these doctors,through their one-and- only medication,that of recommending some sort of numb-pills,put a blanket over their patients'minds resulting in the latter's ultimate switch-off of mind's normalcy.These doctors do not for a while reminisce that theirs is NOT a profession,but a service,a dedication to the cause of the needy.
Now,it is a proven truth that no academic discipline is more subtly replete with confusionary terms than pschiatry or psycho-analysis.To precisely distinguish,here, an`A' from an`a' demands an epic talk.At the end,we see that the grazing sheep have fallen into sleep,while the man who has been advised to count them by his doctor has not even a wink of it
What I dare to venture here,remember,is an absolutely amateurish probing into the most common terms that we hear often of people around us labelled with by their deified MRCP(Psycho)s.
1.STRESS:It is the insurmountable vertico-horizontal criss-cross of the mind,as if a`*'.we,then,come to a cross-roads,self-treated as wing-clipped pigeons.Should we,then sleep over our psychic impedi-ments under narcotic pills recommended by our doctors or be in absolute wakefulness of our minds to admit no impediments by sheer strength of our never-say-sleep spirit?
2.TENSION:It is an evanescent cloudlet-patch of the mind.An illusion it is in most cases,very very childish in nature,the like of which is traced in the zoomed closeup of a lamb as if it were a dinosaur.When by just one slap of an eye's twinkle it can be dissolved,why a pill?To represent this obsession of the mind,let us use this sign`$'.
3.DEPRESSION:It cannot be slighted as a passing fancy of the mind.Because it does not bite,it cuts deep,it gnaws.It wraps the mind from all sides like a snare;hence it can only remind us of an`@'.We must.then,abide by the Victorian Browning's advice:"My sun sets to rise again."
4.DEJECTION:Indeed,the mind is deadened at this juncture,no thoroughfare in any direction.The mind is then under a ventilator and is at the mercy of its usurped possesor to renounce it in an of course euthanasic evacuation or to allow it to subsist as if an extra finger to our already five.We can find no better visual representation of this extreme state of mind than in this-<>.All avenues blocked,we do,however,wait often for a miracle to occur.herein comes the saviour,the English auxiliary verb,the`May',as in Micawber's words:`Something may turn up'.After all,we are given a life to live,not to destroy it.Yes,this life is the handiwork of ANOTHER,whosoever He might be;and we are only to carry it till the day we are robbed of it by death natural and inevitable.
- November 9, 2008 4:47 pm
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