WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY - October 10
Today, 10th October, is World Mental Health Day. Mental or psychological illness appears in different forms. However, they don't tell you that some mental illnesses are associated with the attributes of the creative genius. For example, Bipolar Disorder though is a mental or psychological illness but the 'highs' and 'lows' of this disease produced creative people like the writers Earnest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Ralph Waldo Emerson and many others in different creative professions. Some of them committed suicide but Islam provides us with the belief that suicide is strictly forbidden or haraam (a person doomed to hell afterwards) so it is better to bear the pain in this life and fight it.
Here's an article also by me published in THE NATION, magazine, (Jan. 2009) when I worked there as Sub-editor which briefly tells the life-story and struggle of a sufferer of Bipolar Disorder
- FREEDOM WITH MEDITATION - http://together-we-rise.blogspot.com/2013/04/freedom-with-meditation-by-roman-ahsan.html
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