"Now, in terms of the 'get over it' and resilience aspect, there’s a beautiful story, or truth, that my friend, Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrone, who has a Lakota Sioux background, a psychiatrist and physician — and Lewis Mehl-Madrone told me — and he’s an author, as well. And he told me that in the Lakota tradition, when somebody gets ill, the community says, 'Thank you. Your illness represents some dysfunction in our whole community, because we are not separate. Your body is not separate from your mind, and your mind is not separate from the rest of our minds. We co-create each other. So your illness represents some dysfunction, some imbalance in our whole community. So your healing is our healing. How can we support you?'”
"Dr. Gabor Maté on 'The Myth of Normal,' Healing in a Toxic Culture & How Capitalism Fuels Addiction" | Democracy Now!
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/11/24/dr_gabor_mate_on_the_myth
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