The Madness of Mental Illness



The world is mad, insane. Can the world be locked up in a Victorian Lunatic Asylum please or can fundamental religion be put in the padded cell and injected up its arse or perhaps it is British and American Foreign Policy? Who knows why the world is mad but instead of football coming home, carnage came home this past week. I won't write about that but I will comment upon the 'collective subconscious'. What 9/11 did to traumatise the young minds of America in 2001, the Manchester Arena attack will do the same for the fragile psyches of Britain's children or dare I say Europe's children. Europe's children have been passive consumers of terror for the last four years. Walking passed the blue dragon on Cardiff Castle t'other day made me think that a myth and machinery has been built up around Mental Illness. The 1-4 statistic is not helpful. I think that we are all more or less sane but are on a continuum of this. An individual's life events are hugely underestimated in my opinion in a human soul's development of mental health. It was only a matter of time before the global environment caught up with all of us. Decisions have to be taken as to whether we respond with compassion or hatred. Following the latter will lead to the trap of Armageddon which has been laid for us. Bombing the shit out of the Middle East and especially the heartlands of the Islamic faith have reaped a whirlwind and Jeremy Corbyn was right to say it! Depression in my opinion and I have said it before on this blog in Welsh is anger turned inwards. Righteous anger, justified anger, moral anger, frustrated anger. It does not have a place to go in the concrete and high streets of our free market economy. The anger then finds its way like water into the weak spots and cracks ready to bring down the Tower of Babel in the future. What can we do? Be more mindful, be less gung-ho. Be more co-operative and less competitive. Be more compassionate and less hateful! Be more understanding of the whys and wherefores of the world instead of condemning a people and a religion out of hand. For every action there is a reaction. We should know this by now! We must stop taking violent actions. They have nothing to lose as we have witnessed. We have much because we have made it so! Let us be watchful because the madness of mental illness lies only one step beyond.