The mental health of Young People depends on “learning to feel”

william smith
6 min readJan 21, 2018

“The activity of art is based on the capacity of people to infect others with their own emotions and to be infected by the emotions of others. Strong emotions, weak emotions, important emotions or irrelevant emotions, good emotions or bad emotions — if they contaminate the reader, the spectator, or the listener — it attains the function of art.” — Leo Tolstoy

Psychosis is a mental disorder in which thought and emotions are impaired so severely that contact with external reality is lost. It includes a range of symptoms that…

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