Soul sickness can be
justified from a
religious perspective as what happens when a soul gets "
cut off from God". But you have to
really think about
what God IS, not just what
stories you were told about It.
The
first sickness of the
soul is
Anonymity. This is what happens when the
soul stops being able to
feel its connection with
other souls. We
send out signals, but they don't seem to
come back, and the
radio silence disturbs us. This is what it feels like in
high school for many of us, when we seem to
fade and dissappear in a world of
people who
don't notice us anymore.
Smart people talk a lot about
connection, and about how
Life is all about
connecting. Think
Patch Adams, who
ran the gamut of
soul sickness and came out
clean--because he
found that connection again.
Anonymity is
only a feeling, but it is
dangerous because of what it becomes if it
becomes real to us.
Click here for
Soul Sickness Two: Anomie.