Botanical Manuscript Aside - On Psychological Health

What constitutes “psychological health”/ It’s not rationality alone. If it were emotional well-being, then there would be myriad situations where emotional well-being depends on the suspense of rational thinking. So what is it? Are there situations where a psychologically healthy individual should want to die? I think the answer is certainly yes. Is functionality in society a requisite for psychological health? Many societies are directly parasitic upon the psychological health of their members. At the same time, a psychologically healthy individual wants to belong in society. What about drugs? Modern Western medicine would have us believe that some drugs promote psychologically health, yet all of those drugs are new inventions. What about illegal drugs that have existed for thousands of years?

It seems to me that psychological health is basically a lie. There’s no such thing. The mind is an adaptive organ. Our feelings are either justified or not, it’s inconsequential and circumstance. Whether our behavior is considered sick by society or not, who judges society? It is a jury of crazed primates, lost and confused to a man. “You are the only light there is for yourself my friend.” The question of the health of a mind is like the hands of a clock in a universe where time is only imagined.

I say this and yet there are things I want to relate to people regarding their minds. Some of these plants taught me things about how my mind works that I could not have figured out another way. Especially in concert with reading about the chemical systems responsible. By knowing what neurotransmitter receptors a plant affects, you learn about how your mind works when you use it. Then when you feel something else - another plant, another drug, or endogenous chemical surge in your body - you can compare it. Intuitively you come to know yourself on a chemical level - your feelings now have faces. I hope one day someone else will understand.