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  • And certainly attending to the physicalist view can be important, it has I am sure saved a life or two from depression or dangerous schizophrenic breaks for example, but a so-called doctor should be resourced to support all kinds of phenomenae and trained to hear the patient throughout the differing states. Further bad science is assuming that symptoms observed tell the story when there is an inwards story of symptoms that require help to retrieve and understand but are often ready to be acknowledged, that’s why the break of reality happens, to whatever degree.

    From my observation it often requires a translator of sorts, which hospitals, and where I am sure majority of conclusions are based from as it is controlled, but cannot factually say, sufficiently lack. They are fundamentally missing a huge piece by hearing words and not the layers, assuming their view of symptoms is correct and more important than the patient’s real story.

    I for one was asked if I had any trauma (good start, poorly executed with a bomb of a question on my psyche had I been trauma informed which people are growing into) but in an awakening we do not yet know of these things. It is why we are awakened, to tend to the pains that cause distortion in the way we show up. Having more observational skill might be helpful to distinguish it’s existence but psychiatrists and researchers alike need to understand their personal limitations and where to call in someone who might be able to read the subtleties with more acuity. Not all patients require this, in fact it is relatively rare that someone associates with spiritual awakening but as we see this story relatively busy moving around, I am absolutely not an anamoly. When a patient does associate with it, they are ready, or getting ready, to heal and that should not be gaslit either. Insintuating their transformation as an impossibility is gaslighting and once again a lack of acknowledgement for their own limitations. Gaslighting is hard to defend furthering the physicalist view and something that needs major awareness in the psychiatric field.

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  • Gaslighting should be highlighted in your comment as a word to describe the bad science of psychiatry. It is time it evolves from its child-like state of curiosity without regard to the holistic nature of the truth behind mental wellbeing.

    As the other commenter left us a fine example of it, I encourage reflection (forgiveness and grace for mistakes and mishaps) but Motherhood is thee hardest job on the planet and raising a future generation of higher Love is simultaneously one of the biggest contributions we can make to society. Downplaying a person’s purpose like that is certainly gaslighting.

    Demeaning an experience, or ignoring one’s inner knowing and calling from a place of ego is also a contributing factor that needs review.

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