On Health // Repost from Dr Gabor Maté

 The Health of the Mind

According to the research the best place to be esquizofrenic in world is not in north america with all its pharmacopeia is actually village in Africa or in India where there is acceptance where people make room for your differenceness where connection is not broken but is maintained where you not excluded in society but you welcome, when there is room for you, you act out wherever you need to act out or express even wherever you need to express and may all community even sing with you or chant with you or held ceremony with you, and maybe finding some meaning in your code call on your craziness.
Excerpts from video interview bellow by Gabor Maté 

 

photo via : briarpatchmagazine

The Myth of “Normal” in Psychological Disorders. He explains how mental distress and pathology exists in a continuum and are largely a result of a materialist culture that rigidly “idealize individuality and ignores emotional needs,” prioritizing objects over people and well being.
 Mate is a Hungarian-born physician, living in Vancouver, B.C., who grew up and was educated in Canada.  

 

I think you will find his perspective fascinating more info about Dr Mate philosophical healing approach and publications check his web site : Gabor Maté

 More about Gabor

Gabor Maté  Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1944, he is a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust. His maternal grandparents were killed in Auschwitz when he was five months old, his aunt disappeared during the war, and his father endured forced labour at the hands of the Nazis. He emigrated to Canada with his family in 1956.
 Today as  Jew Canadian is physician who specializes in the study and treatment of addiction and is also widely recognized for his perspective on Attention Deficit Disorder and his firmly held belief in the connection between mind and body health. He has authored four books exploring topics including attention deficit disorder, stress, developmental psychology and addiction.He is a regular columnist in news papers

more see :
Gabor Maté: How Capitalism Makes Us Sick 

An interview on health and politics

edit by celeste cambaza / stockholm Sweden  jan 2016