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RE: "Mental Illness": How and what to learn from your mind breaking
Thanks for sharing. After my first tough experience I took the anti-psychotics they ordered the minimum time possible, and never again. What they call 'psychosis' are often deeply transformative experiences, what in shamanistic cultures are called 'initiations' etc.
My analytical mind has given thought to the bipolar aspect of these events. "Psychosis" seems to be characterized by order of 'high' first, then 'low', which is very tiring, but in the organized shamanistic kathartic rituals the rule of thumg goes 'low' first, then 'high'.
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I'm not sure what you mean here. High and low in what way?
Mainstream bipolar (formerly manic depressive) speaks about "periods of depression and periods of elevated mood"; a waveform has top and bottom; many shamanistic traditions have conceptualized 'above' and 'below' worlds in various forms; drama is based on 'tension' and 'release'; etc.
Often people get first drunk and then hangover; cf psychosis. In shamanistic work you usually first take deep dip in the subconsciouss "below" of fears and trauma etc., and then go to the "elevated mood" aka good vibes. :)