Mental Disorders

Why do we hold onto our mental disorders?  One reason is that they make us feel unique.  Like how? You might be told that the way to grow up/wake up is to fit into a group or tribe that seems to know the way.  But you say no, you don't fit in because you are brilliant, or at least smarter than anyone else and you know how to fix things, the world, by yourself.  You think that by yourself you do best, but in fact by yourself you isolate.  You don't think it is isolation.  You don't need fixing but you know others around you do need fixing.  Being unique is so often the door to isolation.  No one learns much from isolation.  Being part of a tribe, a group, a way to grow up is blocked by fear.  It is fear of change.  But isolation keeps the unique person in the dark.  Their own "brilliance" blinds them to the dark.  And they don't bother with a second opinion.  That would open them to listening, which is not part of their uniqueness.  The isolated person is brilliant only in their own mind.  This is a metal disorder.  I used to know how to fix the world. It usually came to me about the time the test pattern came onto the tv channel.  You young people don't remember test patterns.