How language creates your mental health
Lisa Luxx |
TEDxUniversityofYork
• June 2017
When it comes to mental health, everyone has the ability to set their own mind free; if they could only see how it became imprisoned in the first place. In this talk, poet and philosopher Lisa Luxx argues it’s all about the way we place ourselves in the context of old stories. Each of us lives inside a verbally constructed ‘normal reality’, and that idea of normality dictates the boundaries of sanity and madness. This talk suggests that when we name things we trap them. Which is how the mind becomes uncomfortable and agitated. Luxx ditched her own mental health diagnosis to rewrite the narratives of her mind and, most importantly, accepted that something’s are better left unsaid. What has diagnosis done to the way you perceive yourself? Have you ever tried replacing the voice in your head with a soundscape instead? What do they mean when they say silence is key to inner freedom? Both our greatest wisdom and deepest madness lie in the great inexpressible.