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You’re Not A “Broken Person”
Because there’s no such thing as normal.
I was talking with a coworker when I asked, “Do you ever feel like there is a barrier between your brain and your body? Like they are functioning independently from one another, and you’re just floating through life?” I was shocked when they said, “No.”
How do you explain such an uncommon sensation to someone who’s never experienced it especially when, to you, it is common?
It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that you’re broken. After all, if someone has an injury in their leg that causes it not to function properly, we would refer to their leg as broken. Why shouldn’t it be the same for our brains? If it isn’t operating properly, then it must be broken.
And if our brain is broken, doesn’t that mean that we are broken?
Catherine Andrews recently published an article on Forge talking about this in relation to “dirty” forms of self-care:
It’s a fantastic article and raises some really great points about the relationship between…
