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  • One of the saddest and most puzzling phenomena of psychological life are the incidents commonly

  • known asbreakdowns’, in which people find themselves suddenly unable to carry out

  • their normal duties - and fall silent, take to bed and cannot stop crying.

  • It can look mysterious from the outside, but what is almost always happening is an attempt

  • to untie a lie that someone else has surreptitiously knotted into our lives.

  • Beneath the breakdown, a long-repressed truth is trying to break through layers of deception.

  • A person is unable to functionnormallybecausenormalityhas grown riddled

  • with something incoherent, mean and impossible.

  • The breakdown is a logical bid for health and truth masquerading as an illness.

  • What has made us ill tends to be a variety of perverse injunctions under which those

  • we trusted may have made us live, for example: I’m ostensibly asking you to succeed - but

  • I won’t love you if you do.

  • Or: You must fail - in order that I can bear my disappointments.

  • Or: You must feel terrible about yourself - to shore up my sense of worth.

  • Or: Worry all the time - so that I can be carefree.

  • Or: You can never be happy - for it would make me too sad.

  • We have probably been trying to make sense of these paradoxical messages for a long time,

  • but now, rightly so, we can’t take it any more.

  • We are compelled to untangle the perverse position we have been placed in.

  • Our illness acts as our conscience; it won’t let up until we have figured out the truth;

  • it can’t tell us the truth by itself, but it is urging us to make the effort to find

  • it out.

  • The twitching, paranoia or despair are there to keep us honest.

  • The illness’s contract with us is: understand me, and I will leave you alone; ignore me,

  • and I will upset normality to prevent you from deceiving yourself any longer.

  • Illness is the midwife of truth.

  • The fortunate ones among us manage to decode the riddle.

  • We begin to get a sense of who may have aggressed us - and how odd and sad it is that they should

  • have done so (not least, because they might be our parent or our spouse).

  • We have fallen ill because we have been victims of a cruelty which we needed the cover of

  • madnessto be able to look at.

  • We aren’t really ill at all - we may be closer to sanity than we have ever dared

  • to be.

One of the saddest and most puzzling phenomena of psychological life are the incidents commonly

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The Upsides of Having a Mental Breakdown

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