How to live
Oct
08
2007
08
2007
Dr David McBride, a psychiatrist in the novel by Sally Vickers The Other Side of You, recorded a comment by his colleague...'the question is not how to cure or be cured but how to live'. He then noted 'The people we were treating were not so much looking for a remedy for anxiety or depression, they were looking for a reason to be alive. For the most part, the human race takes for granted that life if not a blessing is at least desirable enough to cling to. But for those for whom the business of being alive is a much more vexed question, the illness is the question, or, to put it another way, the illness is how the question may be posed'. The psychiatrist mentioned above was also a psychoanalyst and the comments are much in tune with Zen approaches to therapy stressing as it does to need to live sanely in order to erode bad mental states.
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