Perhaps irrelevant but from personal experience my mental illness was caused not only by pain but the most intense part was not being able to be my true self, knowing my true self would not be accepted in society, and more importantly I could not accept myself.
The repression of my known m/b/s self that needed to be free and accepted at least by my self was the most suicide inducing distress. Judgement from outside does not make that easier. I think that is very common in the world.
In cases with homosexuality in the past, and trans people now, the very fact “who they know themselves to be” is called a symptom, deep breath, that is the source of much of their “mental illness”. So saying it’s caused by illness verse trusting they are who they say further compounds the denial of that self.
Two spirited people were not classified by their culture as defective/ill. They were/are known as leaders and healers. Denial of self is very often the reason people stop wanting to live.
Like one part of self saying to the other, let me live or we will die. For this reason, I am perhaps egoicly driven to stop these people from having that said to them.
Anyways I have probably said enough over the last few day. Sorry for prattling on.
The repression of my known m/b/s self that needed to be free and accepted at least by my self was the most suicide inducing distress. Judgement from outside does not make that easier. I think that is very common in the world.
In cases with homosexuality in the past, and trans people now, the very fact “who they know themselves to be” is called a symptom, deep breath, that is the source of much of their “mental illness”. So saying it’s caused by illness verse trusting they are who they say further compounds the denial of that self.
Two spirited people were not classified by their culture as defective/ill. They were/are known as leaders and healers. Denial of self is very often the reason people stop wanting to live.
Like one part of self saying to the other, let me live or we will die. For this reason, I am perhaps egoicly driven to stop these people from having that said to them.
Anyways I have probably said enough over the last few day. Sorry for prattling on.