I've come to understand how psych wards can really, truly be counter-productive through conversations with my daughter about them. While they may be arguably effective in ensuring some magnitude of short-term magnitude security of one's well being towards oneself and others, they can be detrimental in the long-run.

From the perspective of the committed, it's difficult to understand how an environment that compounds feelings of isolation and not being understood by those surrounding oneself is supposed to alleviate any of the factors that form the root of the problem. Logic assessment would produce a paradox whereby treatment that is supposed to improve the situation, over time as it is viewed in retrospect, actually does the opposite, and paves the path towards a balanced, at-peace mind as more, rather than less, hopeless.

Avoiding situations that may result in further committals will most likely be fear-motivated, and thus one learns to fear one's emotions, the impulses and/or compulsions generated by them, and ultimately a true understanding of the self. And so every action taken to avoid another dose of hopelessness is also a bitter pill numbing oneself to the possibility of true contentment discovered within.


I don't believe sadness or melancholy to be the result of denying one's nature or questioning it. Sadness comes from a separation of an attachment that produced happiness in the place of somewhere contentment was lacking. Knowing one's nature and living it produces contentment. Knowing it and not living it produces restlessness.

The restless do not attempt suicide.

Does the feedback you get from others when you engage in channeling and writing trigger manic and/or depressive episodes?