You’re not a Problem to be Fixed

Sometimes you can feel like you are a problem to be fixed, but you're not that. You may have problems, but not a problem. 

You're not a problem to be fixed. Neither are you a personality to be probed. You're not a diagnosis, a number, or a category.

You may feel like you are being analyzed so that you fit in a box, but No, you're not a tick in a box.

You are human.

They may have a file on you that is lifetime long, yet you're not that file.

You are not a disorder, an addiction, an anxiety or a depression.

You're not a mood or a melancholy.

You're not a problem to be fixed.

But it felt like I was another problem to be fixed and they had the solutions. 'Just do this and that, and life will get back on track.'

'Next patient, please.'

Have you ever felt that? That feeling that you are simply another problem to be solved. That you are interrupting somebodies journey, and they want to fix you as soon as possible so they can get on with life.

It's called dehumanisation.

That's a very big fancy word that means to deprive a person of human qualities. You are no longer a human. You are more of a problem to be solved, a number, a disorder.

I once wrote an essay titled 'Dehumanization and Sexual Abuse.' Not an easy read, but one that takes the reader to the story that Jesus told of The Dehumaised Man or what many call The Story of the Good Samaritan. 

It's the man in the ditch, dying from the abuse of robbers. They saw him for what he had, not for who he was.

 

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