I hear you.

I think I'm in an anti-pathologizing phase at the moment. Feeling 'normal' from my TMS treatment really opened my eyes to the negativity surrounding my treatment. It was like switch turned on, and i started seeing things without that ugly veil of grey that ostensibly tolerated paying someone to mercilessly point out of my defects for 45 mins. a week. I feel pretty well educated about my defects at this point; after close to 7 years of intensive therapy. Is there any more gain to that process; or is it time to really identify my strengths, and explore ways to harness them? And it's not necessarily either or, but the other side of each 'defect' perhaps lies a strength. Ying and yang.

What about the strengths of 'the wounded'? The resiliency, the character, courage, the resourcefulness of those of us with certain histories? I recently went to an art exhibit comprised solely of people who had long term histories of mental illness or anguish, and it was absolutely amazing!

I think the term wounded is triggering to me, as there's been times ive mentioned to my therapist about wanting to be put to sleep as done by veteranarians. Or animals who wander off to die or packs that abandon a member. Various ways to designate someone as less than human, or to alienate a person. Which is something the article also describes. Makes me think of schizoid anxieties too.

But it also signifies that someone has limitations. And sometimes or often we do, but that doesn't necessarily mean we should automatically resign ourselves to those limitations.