Chapter 349 He’s Back

In textbooks, mental illness is described like this: under the influence of biological, psychological, and social factors, the brain goes off-kilter, and cognition, emotions, willpower, and behavior all get disrupted to different degrees. That’s the clinical picture.
But there’s another take: some so‑called mental patients aren’t truly ill. They’ve seen things people can’t make sense of, got their minds shaken, and then started saying and doing stuff nobody understands. So people slap the “mentally ill” label on them.
That view kind of turns them into mystics.