We Want to Live page 290:
MENTAL ILLNESS is a condition in which a person has tremendous
difficulty dealing “rationally” with problems and stress. Although the
problems may be normal, the emotionally challenged individual is
overwhelmed by them. Some people react antisocially. That usually
occurs in very sensitive, overly criticized individuals who are in constant
fear of making disastrous decisions. I have found that the resultant stress
overtaxes the nervous and glandular systems. Neural and glandular
irritation and exhaustion result in actual physiological imbalances, such
as: hypoglycemia, diabetes, thinning of neural membranes, and thyroid
malfunction. Unless physical health is restored, psychotherapy of any
kind is not likely to be complete or long-lasting.
Eating a raw diet that includes some cooked starch with plenty of raw fat and some raw unripe fruit 1-2 times daily helps balance hormonal
levels. Eating plenty of raw fat, including no-salt-added raw cheese and
raw cream (when available), and meat, especially fish, gradually
restores health to glands and nerves.
A fun deficiency is also the cause. If you are not having enough fun
you are probably criticizing yourself and others. Be a cheerleader for
yourself. Trust and encourage yourself and others in whatever is right
for each of you as individuals. Although education and science try to
formulate everything and everybody, no two people will ever think or
act alike, or have the same tastes. Just as two flowers on the same stem
are different, both are beautiful and right. Only machines that have no
choice follow formulas. If you try to validate yourself by comparing
yourself to other people’s thinking and talents, you will always be
confused and insecure. When you have a taste (a need) for strawberries
and someone else has a taste (a need) for oranges, each of you is right
for yourself.
Listening to one’s self, discovering one’s likes and dislikes, and
trusting one’s choices based on those likes and dislikes are important to
liking yourself. Finding an appealing creative outlet, not comparing
one’s creativity to anyone else’s, and pursuing that creative outlet help
build self-esteem. See Depression, page 254, and Awareness, page 325.
See the book The Recipe For Living Without Disease, Chapters 12 and 15.
page 254
DEPRESSION: Transient depression is most often caused by low
blood sugar. Drinking a blenderized mixture of ½ cup of raw fresh fruit
(such as orange, or pineapple, or whatever fruit appeals to you) and ½
cup unheated honey usually brings immediate relief. Drinking a little
and then sipping the rest over a 1-to-2-hour period often creates better
results. If hypoglycemia or diabetes is involved, 1-3 ounces raw cream
or ½-1 avocado or other raw fat (e.g., raw coconut cream, unsalted raw
cheese) should be blended in or eaten with the fruit and honey mixture.
To handle repeated and extended spells of depression, see Appendix H,
page 138, and Appendix L, page 141.
Chronic depression is most often caused by low bacterial levels in
the digestive tract and/or protein deficiencies. Eating at least 1 pound
of raw meat and ½ cup raw cream daily helps ease chronic depression.
To completely resolve it, I suggest eating “high” meat. (See the book
The Recipe For Living Without Disease, High Meat, Chapter 15.
Doing something creative inspires creative thinking for problem
solving instead of worrying. Concentrating on creating positive things
and experiences helps create a better future. Then making choices
based on yourself experiencing a more suitable future makes your
future a better reality. Believing in sayings like "too good to be true"
closes the door to wonderful experience. Inventions are rarely made by
proving something can't be done. Inventions are made by focusing on
the possibilities that something can be done. If I had believed what the
doctors said about my probabilities, I would be dead. If I had listened
to what most of my teachers and counselors told me my aptitudes were,
I would not have been able to read a book, much less write this one.
What will you invent or create of your future? For suggestions on
creating happiness, see Awareness, page 325, and Mental illness, page
290.
page 325
AWARENESS: Asking yourself questions about your individual needs
and what you enjoy, leads to answers that promote happiness and self-
esteem. Listening to your body’s needs and enjoyments are part of that
questioning. Instead of dwelling on all the possible things that could go
wrong, or that already have gone "wrong", living in the moment and choosing which dreams you wish to follow give you power to create a
more desirable future. Imagining the worst things that can happen, so
that you will be ready and prepared just in case they happen, creates
tension, criticism and cynicism. It is useless to waste time considering
infinite negative possibilities. It is helpful to consider negative
probabilities but it is futile and debilitating to dwell on negative
probabilities and possibilities. If negative probabilities exist, make the
best plans of action to change those directions. Tension and
criticism/cynicism attract tense, cynical, critical people and
experiences; a stressful and exhausting cycle. Are you as prepared for
the best possibilities? Preparing for the best experiences creates hope
and joy. Hope and joy attract happier, creative people and experiences
to you, and synchronicity; a delightful cycle. Therefore, imagining and
fantasizing positive experiences with the belief that they are probable
creates a happier and more fulfilling life. If you quit, whose life do you
surrender? Ecological considerations and compassion create healthier
environments, and consequently healthier and happier people.
