Alleviating Fears And Pain Poem by Doris Cornago

A mental disorder, also called a mental illness or psychiatric disorder, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning. Such features may be persistent, relapsing and remitting, or occur as a single episode. But hey, setting aside all those clinical terminologies, a mental aberration may only be a means of survival, the mind struggling to cope with circumstances in a failsafe way to survive or protect itself from further damage. Most will say longing for childhood days is a retrogressive condition. What's your perception?