Living crazy times (Viviendo épocas de... locura)

HOW TO SURVIVE TO A MENTAL DIAGNOSIS

Have you ever been diagnosed with some sort of mental health problem? ¿What if the people who diagnose you have more problems than you are? 🤔

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I have no doubt that we live in tough times. And some people, in order to thrive develop some adaptive mechanisms. One of them is to live "outside the box".

Often, these people are considered crazy. With more luck they are considered rebels, outliers or geniuses

Think about Anna Frank´s quote. She wasn´t crazy, but the time and the challenges that she lived were.

Are the people considered crazy healthier than the people considered normal? Let´s see 🤨

One of the cases that horrifies me was the cruelty that princess Alice of Battenberg suffered. If you don´t know her, she was the mother of Philip Mountbaten, better known as Philip of Edimburg, husband of Queen Elizabeth.

She borned deaf. But her mother didn't realize until she noticed Alice was slow in learning and talking and her pronuntiation was indistinct. It was her grandmother that identify the problem and took her to see and specialist. Although her initial limitations, she was able to learn to read the lips and speak English and German, studied French and learned Greek.

The problem wasn´t that but what happened later in her life. After her marriage with Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, with the advent of Balcan Wars he was reinstated in the army, and she acted as a nurse. During World War she and her children was forced in the palace cellars during French bombardment and later, forced into exile.

Few years later, due to political events the princess and her husband briefly return to Greece but then they fled again in order to protect their life. 🥺

She and her family had many difficulties in her life.

As you can imagine all of these events could create an instability in her psyche 🧠

However, she became deeply religious. The problem was when she began claiming divine messages and having healing powers. She started to behave in a very disturbing manner and claiming to be in contact with Christ and Buddha 🛐

Then, she was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia by two psychiatrists who consulted the famous Sigmund Freud. He believed, according to what psychiatrists told him, her delusions were the result of SEXUAL FRUSTRATION ¡¡¡??? 🤯

Worse than his absurd conclussion, his recommendation was an intense x- raying to her ovaries in order to kill of her libid 🤬🤬

Although all the cruelty she received, she dedicated the rest of her life to serve others as nun and it was only two years before her death she went to live with his son and her wife, Queen Elizabeth.

You don´t need to be a feminist to be offended. It´s simply HIGHLY DISTURBING

You don´t need either to be an expert to understand what really happened to her.

You might be think these cruelty practices against people who suffer mental disorders are today not so common, but they are still used to treat those who in order to thrive as I mentioned, developed some adaptive mechanisms.

The psycho "rationale" about why women suffer mental disorders are still in use. 🤕

IT WILL CONTINUES...

Have you been misdiagnosed with some mental or other health condition? Share your own story!

If you like to learn more about your mental heath and how to improve it, please CONTACT ME 🤙

I will make a team with you to go beyond symptoms and find ROOT CAUSES

THIS ARTICLE IS ORIGINAL FROM THE AUTHOR, SHE HAVEN´T USED CHAT GPT NOR ANY OTHER ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM

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Claudia Juárez es Psicóloga Clínica, Especialista en Estrés y Consultora en Salud y Bienestar Corporativo. Dirige Transforma tu Estrés, Consultoría Especializada en el Manejo de Estrés Organizacional e Individual. Conferencista y tallerista sobre Manejo de Estrés, Resiliencia, Inteligencia Emocional, Balance de Vida entre otros. Consultora y capacitadora NOM035. Autora del libro Todo lo que quería saber sobre el estrés de la A a la Z, publicado por Manual Moderno (2019).

Soy también consultora en procesos de cambio organizacional (Change Management) y personal, y practicante certificada de la metodología Heartmath ❤️