The word “issue” is intriguing. He has “Mummy issues” or just, with mental health, “issues”. The term means an important topic or problem for debate, and its origins lie in Middle English “outflowing” and terminate in “exire” “to go out”.
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When we speak about a person “having issues” it literally means that something is flowing out that should be kept inside. In this sense, mental health “issues” refer to a breakdown of the bounded ego that allows a person to operate in society. They need to be dammed up again.
12:25 AM - 2 Jul 2018
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