The Myth of Mental Health

The modern world has become obsessed with the concept of "mental health," yet this very obsession may be perpetuating the suffering it claims to alleviate. We have created a culture where every human emotion, every moment of discomfort, every natural response to life's challenges is pathologized, labeled, and treated as a disorder.

But what if anxiety is not a disorder to be cured, but a messenger to be understood? What if depression is not a chemical imbalance to be corrected, but a natural response to living in ways that contradict our deepest nature?

The Pathologization of Being Human

In our rush to medicalize the human experience, we have lost touch with the wisdom of our natural responses. Anxiety often arises when we are living out of alignment with our authentic selves. Depression frequently emerges when we suppress our truth for too long.

The ancient traditions understood this. They recognized that suffering was not a pathology but a teacher, not a disorder but a doorway to deeper understanding.

Beyond Treatment: The Art of Listening

Instead of rushing to silence our discomfort with medications or techniques, what if we learned to listen? What if we approached our inner turmoil with curiosity rather than judgment?

This is not to dismiss genuine mental health challenges or the value of professional support when needed. Rather, it is an invitation to question whether our current approach—which focuses on symptoms rather than causes, on suppression rather than understanding—is truly serving us.

The path forward lies not in more labels or more treatments, but in a radical return to presence, to listening, to the courage to face what is without immediately trying to fix or change it.