Children with mental disability

Children with mental disability are not children with actually a 'disability', they are children with a gift, a gift to see the world with their own perspective. The intelligence of a child is demonstrated not only by the use of signs, improvement of language, memory and the imagination when articulating but also by the way they treat the world.Mental illnesses should not be thought of any differently from physical illnesses. In fact, I believe the two are inseparable. Because the whole body is connected and interwoven, the two cannot be separated. The brain is an organ just like everything else in the body and can be hurt like other parts. When the brain is ill, it is not isolated in just the brain, instead it affects the whole body and the overall wellness. Substance abuse, self-harm, and suicide are very common and dangerous in those with mental illnesses. Hence, we should not treat them with wrong methods but we should know that they are beautiful in their own way and it is not their fault that they are diagnosed with this illness. Giving psychological help is the most important thing anyone can gift them. Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of or thought of differently. When mental illness is treated equally to other illnesses, more people will have the courage to get help and make their own lives better without any hesitation. The thing about mental illness is that it’s terrible. That it’s deeply and profoundly unpleasant and even if it’s not due to a particular, single symptom to begin with, it makes you hate yourself because it’s your mind that’s sick. The thing is that we need to treat children with mental illness beautifully and love them.You cannot mix souls. You cannot dilute them. You cannot infect them. This is you, eternal, essential. If it is diseased, then you are diseased. Disease is not a part of you; it is you. It is of you. It is part of you only in that every other thing about you is part of you as your eyes or your brains or your intellect or your nerves or your curiosity or your affections or your words or your fear. We are the people who are luckily not diagnosed with this but those who are diagnosed with these are not unlucky too, they are just in need of much more love and selfless concern.

Arshdeep Kaur