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title: A Buddhist way through mental illness.
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tags: ["eassay", "buddhism", "mental health"]
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description: "In this essay I argue how Buddhist principles provide the ethical and mental framework necessary to manage a life long mental illness."
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date: 2026-03-16
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I have always been a terrible student, with below average grades, and, even until high school, all my notebooks have doodles all over the place. One may conclude that I'm unengaged or I have some type of attention disorder.
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Of course the right implication is that I'm not unengage, my psychiatrist suggests that I may have ADHD or a mild Autism Disorder, but my main diagnosis is Bipolar Disorder type 2.
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This diagnosis may sound catastrophic but as the Buddha says there's a right and a wrong way to view things. And I believe all living things have to survive in their conditions.
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My bipolar disorder manifests from a mix of obsesion, creative power and constructive power, last time I was in distress and without diagnosis I created a technology to plot multidimensional surfaces.
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I'm not arguing to use your mental illness as a superpower, because each maniac episode cumulative damages the brain and in the long run this may evolve in dementia.
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It is also a fallacy to believe that an episode is the only way through creativity. Creativity is Orthogonal to mind states.
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What I'm proposing is a Middle Way. Being conscious of your situation and earning a livelihood through mindfulness. A Buddhist way through mental illness.
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On the orthogonality of creativity to mind states, there's the buddhist principle of non duality, where duality is seen as an illusion.
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As an example in Bipolar disorder, a maniac and a depressive episode both are states of the mind and for me creativity is a manifestation of the non self, thus non dependant one onto the another.
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The goal of this essay is to use buddhist lens to help others accept and navigate a lifelong illness.
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