As a psychologist with more than 20 years of experience, I acknowledge that I have a mental disorder. As I am a vegetarian, I may say that I have an eating disorder. Others show concern that I regularly worry, depressed, even experiencing panic attacks and post-traumatic stress symptoms and continuing to look at the abuse of animals in society. I say this because last year I saw an increase in GP that refers to people who believe they suffer from psychiatric disorders, especially eating disorders. But when I meet them, I find these preliminary diagnoses followed these patients explaining that they are full vegetarians. What if the symptoms associated with them are not symptoms of mental illness, not signs of extreme suffering, sadness, betrayal, and racist insanity?
If you are reading this, actively involved in defending animals, and considering yourself as an ethical vegetarian, perhaps should you issue a health warning? With appropriate nutritional advice, employing a plant-based diet will proactively improve your health, but it is not a health warning because there is a mental health warning. When unveiling what's going on behind our racism, you will probably reach the same conclusion - it is a form of madness but not your madness. Madness as to how our society considers our implicit superiority to the nationalism - animal kingdom and different treatments of different species - is OK.
So then why is it so painful to become an animal defender or adopt a vegan lifestyle? Most importantly, what can you do to relieve your pain and help the animals? Throughout this discussion I will use the phrase Vegan to refer to those who are not backed by value and lifestyle choices due to ethical beliefs in non-exploitation and use of animals. In addition, they are people who take action to end the suffering of animals.
Feel with your knowledge about speciesism alone
Many supporters say they have experienced huge symptoms such as sadness, trauma, depression, solitude since discovering the truth about institutional atrocities against animals. This will only be relieved when they speak with other people reporting similar emotions. But when speaking with people indifferent to resisting, unbelieving, criticizing or listening to their discoveries, they become isolated, angry, and desperate feelings.
The majority of supporters I talked say they are no longer non-vegan friends, as they do not feel they are simply understood by them. This is especially true when they want to talk about the trauma they feel associated with the animal's atrocities. But, in order to support and understand your suffering, does someone have to hurt themselves due to the cruelty of animals? If this assumption is correct, it will affect the grounds for understanding others in general. Does that mean that people can only understand such experiences? Abuse, depression, divorce, if it was done through these experiences?
Vegan usually reports on the following conversations with friends who are not vegan: They advise people about trauma and anger they feel in relation to the degree of abuse of animals in society. In factory agriculture, retail or manufacturing industry. If friends are good listeners, they are encouraged to share more and are offered support and strategies to alleviate their associated anxiety and trauma. The extent of animal cruelty and one person not choosing veganism, told their friends that their day - to - day choice involves using products and services that abuse animals. They say, "If my friends and family truly understand my pain, I will become a full vegetarian." Why can not they?
There are many differences between friends due to many problems, even if life experience is very different, deep friendship may be fostered. We can not just make friends with divorce merely by experiencing this. However, there seems to be a difference as to the theme of Veganism.
Veganism is the philosophy of non-use and non-exploitation of animals. Vegetarians have learned that animal abuse is institutionalized through industrial processes related to food production, clothing, furniture, product testing, and other uses. People may not agree with abuse of animals, as we do not believe that abuse of animals is inherent in the production of the goods and services they buy, we do not choose to be vegetarians. Therefore, a full vegetarian intentionally does not conspire with the animal's atrocities. They unconsciously collide with it until the vegan informs them. Vegan, who talks to their friends about these problems not going to be vegan then believes that their friends disagree with their cruelty, do not believe what is going on, and are indifferent to it. Either way, Vegan knows that non-vegan now has knowledge, but chooses to continue conspiracy. This is the reason they say their friends and family do not understand them. They may believe that friends who are not vegan demonstrate it:
Abuse and animal exploitation are acceptable.
They do not want to sympathize with vegan trauma or can not sympathize.
They do not believe that the atrocities of animals are widespread as reported by a full vegetarian.
In order to find out if friends other than a full vegetarian need to experience something presented by a full vegetarian to understand them, think about problems such as divorce, infidelity, child abuse etc Let's. Hearing the pain of a friend, will those who experienced these things become more understanding of friends? Perhaps. If not, is it that they did not understand better? Perhaps. What if it keeps being a friend who helps others understand what is going on for them even if they have not experienced the problem? Knowledge of the problem does not necessarily require that person (a person not experiencing the specific pain being discussed) to change something about their personal behavior. This is because they are not saying that the fact that they have not experienced this problem is directly or indirectly causing pain. As long as they do not support the action they contributed, they do not automatically conspire with the underlying problem of pain - and in any case, even if they do so, friends will never know about it.
Non-veganism is different. Due to the extent of animal exploitation in industrial processes, every time they use cosmetic or household detergents that are not labeled as absent, milking in the coffee, eating meat, non-vegan will unconsciously Collide with atrocities Wear a leather sofa, or wool jumper. It is impossible for them not to conspire with industrial atrocities unless they choose to choose a complete vegetarian in particular. This is the reason the vegan gets challenged and friends and family who are not their vegan say they do not understand them.
It is probably a fundamental religious belief, it will bring similar dynamics, but this also differs subtly. For example, a basic Christian may say that friends other than Christians do not understand the need for their beliefs. Here we have similar dynamics. However, it is different from the vegan problem. Friends and family who choose not to be a Christian may still act according to Christian values. There is no intention to harm other people. Their behavior of being non-Christian influences themselves only if their beliefs are so rewarding. However, friends who choose not to become vegan are conspiring with others by harming others by the choice of their daily life. That does not only affect them. It affects millions of animals that are part of the production system that exists for consumer demand.
So, can vegan receive only support and assistance from other vegan? necessarily. It is up to the individual to decide. They may also remember the time they did not know about industry hiding and the extent to which society's norms and cultures are protecting the behavior and behavior coexisting with the use of animals. Speciesism. Our family and friends, like other people, have the ability to sympathize with the pain of others. Some people are good at helping someone else than someone else to make strategies to deal with life challenges. To a certain extent, it depends on the extent to which they experienced sorrow and trauma in their own lives. But when there is the belief of the great man to enter a minority called Vegan, which changes the entire everyday choice to avoid collusion with an atrocity of animals, they are also open to other It seems to be truly understood by people.
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How does Vegan alienate non-vegan and avoid losing connections with people who do not share their lifestyle choices but truly care about them? Do you like families? Dr. Wiltattor provides us a solution to help us in this journey. He says that each of us is born in vegan and is on the way back to this place. If you are an animal activist or vegan reading this, you probably remember the time before your eyes were opened to the institutional superiority held by humans. Speciesism. Using that experience, "leap" for other people who have not yet opened their eyes, a more compassionate world where humans live their lives in animals that do not demonstrate superiority over species other than human beings Keeping your vision for ourselves, not ours.
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