From Mad in Finland: The summer wind turned into a cool breeze, which doesn’t dry the laundry in the backyard, and the few that remained on the apple tree already froze. What’s up now? Thanks for asking, lots of books and writing among everything else. The leaves of the rowan tree came off as a result of the stormy wind, and the hard-working squirrel is gathering supplies for the winter. My thesis on the effects of trauma on social integration was completed and is now underway. I’m waiting for your feedback before I finalize it. I waited a long time for Gabor Mate’s The Myth of Normal – Illness, Health and Healing in a Toxic Culture (2022) from the library and when I finally got it, I was very happy. The work sums up in a mathematical style the pain points of our time and why so many people feel bad now. The essence of the work is that we lack connection with ourselves, other people and nature, our environment. In addition to the above, Western societies are places where a person cannot be very well.
Read the full Finnish blog here and the English translation here.
