Dear Mate:

These are a few of my thoughts regarding fear, anger, aggression and mental illness: fear is a natural emotion in nature. It is not an illness. The purpose of fear is to motivate an animal to escape- or fight danger (The Flight/ Fight reaction to Fear).

In humans, escaping danger is often impossible, specifically it is impossible for a young child to escape his home. Later on in life, we may be bullied in schools and without help, we are not able to not go to school. Bullying may happen in the work place later on. With no other way to make money, we may feel forced to stay in the aggressive work situation.

Having to remain in an aggressive environment, be it in one’s childhood home, and/ or in school, and the workplace later on… or in a crime ridden neighborhood and so forth, the fear does not flow out of us because we remain in danger(aggression is danger).

Remaining in danger, fear festers, remains, grows. It expresses itself in a myriad of mental illnesses. Many people suffer from a few diagnosable mental illnesses, combinations of symptoms, expression of that festering fear.

To heal, you have to figure what aggression you are currently living with, be it hostile parents, a bullying workplace, and so on, and then escape, finally.. escape that danger, literally, no longer be present for it.

That would be the first step of healing.

anita