Devendra Singh Psychologist

A recent poem

🌸 She Was Not Sick, She Was Suppressed 🌸

She was not sick—
She was a garden
planted in shadow,
where the sun forgot to look.
She bloomed anyway,
between concrete cracks,
her colors muted,
but never gone.

She was not broken—
She was bending,
like a willow in the storm,
whispering secrets to the wind
that no one stopped to hear.
She cried not for weakness,
but for the weight
she was too young to carry.

She was not lost—
She wandered, yes,
through mirrors that lied,
through voices that told her
she wasn't enough.
But deep in her silence,
a compass stirred—
etched in truth,
in art,
in breath.

She was not sick—
She was a soul
screaming in stillness,
her light painted over
by the brushstrokes of others.
She wore masks of smiles,
of silence,
of strength,
but her spirit longed
to dance bare-faced in the sun.

She was not empty—
She was full of stories,
inked in her diary,
dripping from her brush,
woven into dreams
where she could be free.
A healer in the making,
a phoenix not yet born,
an artist of her own becoming.

She was not fragile—
She was forged
in the fire of judgment,
yet chose gentleness,
again and again.
She was light in the underworld,
a breath among screams,
a prayer wrapped in poetry.

She was not sick—
She was suppressed.
But now—
she speaks.
She paints.
She breathes.
She rises.

🌿 And the world will learn—
That what they called weakness
was a garden waiting
for the courage to bloom.

Copyright@Devendra Singh 2025

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Interview of Marion Woodman Canadian analytical psychologist.
QUESTION :
What does it mean to be addicted?
MARION :
Addicted individuals are being driven by an inner energy toward a particular object be it alcohol, food, drugs, money or another person. This object is a substitute for something that remains unknown to them; the object is actually the presence of something absent the presence of an absence.
So the more they have, the more they need; the more filled they become, the emptier they feel. Addiction is desire without its true object.
QUESTION :
How do you account for this haunting sense of absence?
MARION:
In both the East and the West, there is a deeply rooted desire or need to transcend who we are. Some higher power, some God, finds us unacceptable as we are.
We've spent several thousand years learning the arts of self-transcendence. Built into that self-transcendence is a search for the Absolute.
We feel ourselves morally obliged to search for this Absolute and to make our lives answerable to it. Heroes in fairy tales, Arthur's Knights of the Round Table, and now space heroes search for it. "May the Force be with you" is their benediction as they lift off to never-never land.
Addictions are based on a longing for presence. Addicts somehow believe they can live in the presence of perfection, perfect body, the perfect man or woman, the perfect nirvana.

Addictions aren't just an escape from something intolerable. They're archetypally based on the search for perfection, for the Sun God, for the Holy Grail. Most people believe that any person worth his or her salt will go on this search.