Illness – how to free yourself?

  Illness (especially mental illness) is like a double-tough sword, i.e., it allows one to gain certain rights, avoid certain pressures, and be free from many social responsibilities, but it also brings certain restrictions, loss of certain rights, and more problems.  I once saw a special patient. The patient was hospitalized because she was very emotionally unstable and often had conflicts with people, beating her husband and family members. In the treatment room, I met her and her husband, and she seemed to be a good-looking, clear-headed and articulate person, despite her discontent, resentment and anger in her expression. When she grew up, she fell in love with a man many years older than her, hoping to find a warm home again, but unexpectedly, at the beginning of the new marriage, she did not get the approval of her in-laws, but also fought with her sisters-in-law, from then on, she was regarded as a dangerous person, so she felt that she was being talked about behind her back all day long, and her mood was getting worse and worse. When she heard her husband say, “If you keep this up, we’ll get a divorce,” it touched her most sensitive and fragile nerve, and in the treatment room, she fought, swatting at her husband’s head and then rushed out the door. The next day, she was admitted to a psychiatric ward that night, and became a psychiatric patient in need of a guardian. A child who was traumatized in her early childhood and desperately needed love, warmth, acceptance and recognition, perhaps the last thing she could bear was the feeling of being abandoned again, perhaps she did not have the opportunity to learn to vent her anger, disappointment and helplessness in a moderate way. I remember a few years ago, I also saw a young woman who was in love with her parents opposed and behaved abnormally, and was sent to a mental hospital. Whether they were fighting for love, freedom, or for recognition, acceptance, or whatever, they were pushing themselves to the edge of abnormality because they chose to behave in a way that was beyond the norm, and when they went crazy, they were freed and released, but they also lost the right to control their own destiny.  Many years ago, on the way to travel by train, I saw a woman running naked in the aisle of the carriage, she ran naked from one carriage to another, a group of people behind her screaming, chasing, at that moment, her face was overflowing with excitement, happiness and satisfaction, without regard, without scruples, without any repression, complete relief, I think she was living in her own crazy mental world, that is her only way to release If she wants to return to reality from that spiritual world, it will be quite difficult.  I have also seen a woman sue a hospital because she was diagnosed as mentally ill and was stigmatized by the world, thus losing her chance of love and employment, and the hospital’s evidence actually met the diagnostic criteria for mental illness. After all, it was her illness in the first place and the hospital’s diagnosis in the second, and how can the diagnostic criteria stipulated in those articles explain the complex inner world of a person?  Every day, thousands of patients with different physical symptoms travel between major hospitals, repeating various medical examinations and treatments again and again and again. Statistics show that only one-third of patients in general hospital outpatient clinics really suffer from physical diseases, and the other two-thirds are psychological diseases and psychosomatic diseases (physical disorders caused by psychosocial factors or psychological problems caused by physical diseases); only 15% of patients in internal medicine outpatient clinics are clearly diagnosed with psychological disorders, and 40% of undiagnosed patients may be psychological disorders. From this point of view, can people learn to face their conflicts directly instead of just expressing their inner needs in the form of illness?