Sometimes I wonder if I have something missing from my brain, it just doesn’t work the same way as other people’s. I don’t understand why people don’t just follow the rules of the road, why they spell my name wrong or why they leave the printer jammed. I’m baffled.
We’re doing a good job of raising awareness of mental illness but we need to be careful that we don’t label every emotional difficulty as an illness. Language is powerful, using medical terminology to describe a normal emotional reaction is unhelpful – we need to learn to manage our normal emotions as just that.
Belonging is a deep seated human need. Do not fill the gap with anything else.
