8 Secrets of a Healthy Mind
We would – of course – like any encounter with mental illness to be as brief as possible
and, most importantly, to be isolated and singular. But the reality is that for many
of us, the illness will threaten to return for visits throughout our lives. It will be
a condition to which we will be permanently susceptible. So the challenge isn’t to learn
to survive only a one-off crisis; it’s to set in place a framework that can help us
to manage our fragility over the long-term. Some of the following moves, practical and
psychological, suggest themselves:
Acknowledgement
Being ready for a return of the illness will help us to calibrate our expectations and
render us appropriately patient and unfrightened in the face of relapses. We fell ill over
many years – our whole childhood might have been the incubating laboratory – and it will
therefore take us an…
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