While the world has found the right names for all chronic mental diseases, I believe poetry is also a brain dysfunction, yet the only one that owns itself the mastery for the cure. Isn’t it lovely to say, “He/She suffers of Poetry?”.

IoanaCristina Casapu
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According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a dysfunction is a condition or disorder of an organ, system, or function. A disease is an abnormal condition of the body. There is a lot of controversy in the medical world regarding poetry and it's effect on our brains and bodies and that poetry and music may lead to insanity. This quote shows that we can control our madness and we do not have to be mentally ill. It also shows that we should not only listen to doctors but to poets and musicians as well.

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