Dr. Caroline Leaf

You're just basically your brain.

You're this mechanical thing.

So if you feel depression, regardless of your story, you've got something wrong with your brain.

You've got a brain disease.

You've got a neurobiological brain deficit.

You've got a broken brain.

You've got some whatever.

So they're always looking for the neurobiological correlate, which means they're looking for where in the brain is this emotion, is that experience, is that thinking that it starts there and produces.

So therefore your individuality or uniqueness, your perspective of life, the beauty, the core of humanity, which is this individuality that is accelerated, I mean, or that is accentuated or enhanced in community.

It's not about you, it's about you in the world, but it's the individual pieces that make up the whole.

That's been pretty much obliterated, all reduced down to brain, brain, brain, brain, brain.

And at the same, when you do that, you then, as I said, you ignore the person's narrative.

Now, you can't ignore 90 to 99% of humanity.

You can't switch off the gravitational field.

You can't switch off the basic laws that what you're experiencing is affecting how you function.

So you can't tell a child who's repeatedly abused

and then gets put in a foster care system and gets more abused and then gets labelled with all, as in this climate, gets labelled with all kinds of labels and maybe gets more abused and then gets medically abused because they get given all these drugs and so on too because they're so-called behavioural issues, schizophrenic or learning disabled or something.

You can't tell that person what's happening and they shouldn't be happening is that they're telling that kind of person, oh, you're a broken brain, you're diseased.

Now, they're not diseased.

They've had a terrible life.