What Is Mental Illness?
Our bodies are genetically coded; produced to biologically function adaptively. They are also predisposed with defects and are sensitive to organisms that cause disease or disorders leading to eventual mortality.
This is physically identifiable and tangible...
...However, our physical bodies are also interlinked with the ability to experience and transfer: intense feelings, emotions, ideas, and palpable spiritual incidents. Dysfunction can also occur during these processes. These are not as easily identifiable and can be described as metaphysical.
Present yet unseen, perceived and observed yet without fixed matter...
Mental illness is the metaphysical dysfunction or disturbance of the mind. It is also the result of dysfunction between the metaphysical and the physical.
Examples
An imbalance between upliftment and lows, and an ever-present feeling of restlessness or irritability.
A sense of darkness, fog, and heaviness that consumes the ability to feel alive, worthy, present, or happy. Affecting functioning at work, as well as relationships and possibly leading to risky behavior and or the need to end one's life.
Anxiety and Trauma-Related
Fear...
Racing thoughts that obscure one's ability to feel control, stability, security, and safety.
An intense burden of repetition (i.e. activity or certain thoughts) to alleviate tension yet being unable to, further causing more tension.
A sense of feeling trapped between feelings and reality, often manifesting in dreams, flashbacks, and physical body reactions.
Anxiety can be linked to a physical assault or injury, a perceived threat, or to no logical explanation at all.