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· Feb 3, 2021

"mental illness"

something's wrong with my brain and i need to go to a brain doctor vs. "psychic wound"

someone hurt me and now i have scars or "psychic malnutrition"

i was deprived of something and now i am stunted

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thinking about the phrase "time heals all wounds" and how it is both literally and metaphorically wrong some wounds heal naturally over time, some get worse. the second kind need treatment to get your body's natural healing back on course, that's why medicine exists

(speaking of which, Did You Know that "medicine" shares a root with "meditation")

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· Jan 3

Replying to @smallkewlhuman

fun fact: “medicine” and “meditate” share the same PIE root, “med,” which means “take appropriate measures” etymonline.com/word/medicine#

a common way wounds get worse over time is by getting infected, so: what might a psychic (emotional, spiritual) analogue of this be? how might a psychic wound come to be infected and by what?

thinking out loud: a literal wound gets infected because normally your skin is protecting your insides from being invaded by bacteria and so forth, and when the skin is broken your delicious insides, full of nutrients, become available to be eaten

so, just directly transposing: when you're psychically wounded a psychic defense has been broken, and valuable psychic nutrients which are normally contained inside you start spilling out, which attracts psychic parasites who feed off of you

some possibilities for "psychic parasites" in order of increasing woo: 1) other people 2) memes 3) egregores 4) literal demons

"other people" is the most straightforward possibility; i have in mind stuff like narcissists recruiting wounded people for narcissistic supply, cult leaders, energy vampire / psychic vampire type stuff

12:48 AM · Feb 17, 2022Twitter Web App

"memes" and "egregores" is a more interesting possibility. i really do think that wounded people are also more vulnerable to getting infected by memetic parasites (e.g. extreme ideologies); we have "brainworms" as a term for a good reason

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"literal demons" is the most out-there possibility and it really depends a lot on how literally you take "literal" but consider, for example, this 2018 atlantic article about catholic exorcisms becoming more popular, esp. this quote: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi

i don't really know if there's anywhere i'm going with this, it all at least reinforces for me the importance of Health, in a Broad Sense. stay safe out there

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