I think that a lot of "mental" issues peole have are connected with a strange peculiarity: That the "size" of the soul not always (or rarely) fits the "size" of the personalities or personhood. That is: To me it often feels as if the oddities and struggles a person carries around with her has nothing to do with pychological problems – for which, then, therapists are called upon to step in – but that these people often have a larger soul than a personality to suit it. Or to put it differently: Their personality, their personality traits are smaller than their soul requires, like a glove too tight to fit the hand, thus constricting the hand, making it incapable to work properly.

Thus, there are people with too small personalities to fit their (comparatively) too large soul. As there are people with a too large personality for their soul given. Rarerly do both fit properly. (And I never came up with an example of a person with too small personhood and too small soul.)

The upshot for me is: There are psychological struggles in people that have notning to do with flaws or trauma or neuroses, to be dealt with by therapy and medical intervention. Sometimes things are a struggle because person and soul don't fit properly. Take for illustration someone with brown eyes. You wouldn't put him through therapy just because he has no blue eyes. There's nothing to be done about it. The same, I think, is with personhood and soul. Sometimes things are off that way, and it may take a lifetime for both to come together in a form of equilibrium. And there are, obviously, times or moments, when the soul just can crack through all personality, all personal limitations. In love, e.g., or when in an act of self-chosen "spiritural death" the ego is "sacrificed", set aside, for mery and compassion to have their way. Nothing to be "cured" but all to be waited for, and chosen to be enacted by the moral instance of that very person.

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