“Insight”

insight

This page is from a book called “From Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories The Make Us” by Rachel Aviv.

The degree of “insight” a person is seen to have is what determines their treatment. I am quite fortunate in that my mental health team think I usually have excellent insight. The flip side is that they equate insight with the degree of my distress and pain i.e. my pain isn’t great because I have excellent insight into it. So I don’t get help. You can’t win. They try to lock me up and force medication on me when I’m not asking for their help, but when I am severely depressed and suffering the worst pain and trauma imaginable, I am just left to deal with it alone.

Zoe

A founder of hsphaven, Zoe hopes to create a space for HSP writers to come together and share their diverse passions and expertise through writing. This has been an important outlet for Zoe over the years; she fondly recalls writing stories as a child at recess and lunchtime and sharing them with her classmates. Some of Zoe’s areas of interest include mental health, healing and self-development. She has a background in psychology/social science. In her spare time Zoe enjoys being in Nature, op shopping, vegan food, music, and art and craft.

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