Wind and the Sun

from wikipedia

“The North Wind and the Sun is a fable attributed to Aesop. The story concerns a competition between the North Wind and the Sun to decide who was the stronger of the two. The challenge was set to make a passing traveler uncloak. However hard the North Wind blew at the traveler, the traveler only wrapped himself tighter. But when the Sun shone with warmth, the traveler was overcome with heat and had to take his cloak off. The moral was stated at the end of the fable as:

Persuasion is better than force. The complete moral of this is “Kindness, gentleness, and persuasion win where force fails.”

I had written a long time ago( old blog) my version of this story and Stephany at soulful sepulcher really liked it. I lost my version.

I bring the idea back for her, and to tell the messege love is better than force in helping those with mental illness.

rewrite

The fable has a few perspectives.

One is from the perspective of the mentally ill.
The coat the man is holding on to, represents his/her mental illness. Whatever form of mental
illness the person has. (There are an infinite amount).

The definition of mental illness is debatable, it is defined by outside definitions of what is “normal” in the persons culture, and mental illness defined by living healthily ( as in not performing suicidal actions).
Traditionally psychiatry has tried to beat (as in physical pain) people into sanity.

See Benjamin Rush and snake pit.
This represents the wind trying to force the mental illness away. The harder the wind blows ,

the harder the mentally ill holds onto their illness.

The suns method of warmth, representing love, kindness and understanding, I believe this is the best

method to help the truely mentally ill. What confuses the matter are psychiatrists who lump all

the insane together, the criminally insane with lawfully insane person. There are evil people who

enjoy being evil and when love and kindness are attempted to be given to them, the evil person

exploits it.
With love and understanding the mental illness a person has may fall away, as the methods of

thinking/believing (mental illness) would no longer be nessary to have. The mentally ill person removes their mental illness themselves as they no longer have reason/cause to believe in the insane.

Ironically psychiatry sees patients once diagnosed ill, forever ill.

The mentally ill can never shed their mistaken beliefs/sins/ or illness according to

psychiatry.

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Another perspective is from those that believe psychiatry and psychiatric chemicals are the

only method to help people. This again represents the man and his coat. The harder we pull on

the coat , the harder the faithful retain their faith in their methods. So we can not force the

faithful to give up their belief in traditional psychiatry. We have to show them love and

understanding can work to heal the mentally ill. Though showing the vast amounts of money the

drug companies make and the bribes the drug companies give psychiatrists is interesting.

I believe that during the process of developing a mental illness , there is a failure of communication, this is a failure to understand one another .
The other factor in maintaining “mental illness” is society and media representations of madness. In the movies the mentally ill concept is used as a source of fear, such as a killer in a horror film (Halloween-Michael Myers), and rarely is the mentally ill represented as good person. Shine.

I am against the longer term use of psychiatric chemicals as the attempt to cure mental illness.

God gave us a mind to think with, psychiatrist who disable the mind with chemicals are playing as God.

We choose our behaviours, if we perform good things we are good. If we do evil , we are evil. These actions are not brain chemical imbalances.

Yes the mentally ill can be wrong and mistaken, but as long as we/they are not breaking any laws and can be communicated with, we/they must be tolerated to think what we/they wish to.