i am in therapy and have been for almost 4 yrs... but i have more immediate life issues that we need to focus on in the limited time we have.

i think that is a very good observation, to wonder who the people with issues really are. i was saying something to that effect to someone today - that for kids in less than optimal environments they take their real circumstances as normal and that is the standard... but some kids try to then make the world make sense through that standard and it messes them up - not because they are the issue but because what they were given as the "norm" was the real problem.

i've had a deep meditation practice for... um... 14 yrs now i guess. It calms me and provides insights, distance, detachment... but, it doesn't take away the wave that hits me. It's the empath in me... i FEEL the agony that the animal felt... or person, as the case may be. It tears me apart.

i used to work in shelters... had to stop eventually, got burnt out on the suffering.

idk... maybe being crazy really is the sane response