...he has been labelled as psychotic by many psychologists. I believe in labels as an institution, but when someone openly expresses that they are annoyed at the prospect of being shoved neatly into a box and then cast aside for virtue of being in that box, and the labels continue, I find my temper rising.
What began as a means to blow off steam (this blog), has evolved into my own box, into which 18 other people now deposited their own surplus to try to make sense of it all. The expression of spiritual anxiety, love, frustration, hope, illusion, limbo, patience and evolution have afforded me another eight extremities with which to explore the world.
Each of these extremities has a port, like an open wi-fi connection, to which others can connect to reconcile their emotions with their place in society.
To the man with the label: Everybody in the Western world (the educated, like you and I) with enough sense to have done so, has experienced on some level what you described to me last night.
Everybody has secrets. We bury them like acorns and go back to them when no one is looking. They sustain us. We claim these secrets to be our own, shared only with a select few. In reality, most of us shiver in our own shadows with the same secrets that you have.
It's okay to be who you are, because everyone else knows what it's like.
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