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Undirected change is a
Undirected change is a contradiction in terms. The direction of change is always away from the original subject. A lack of a trend in that change might be called "undirected" but, that is not the same thing as "undirected change". Change is always in some direction even if we don't know in which direction we are moving of if we are intentionally allowing ourselves to be moved by some other thing, (being passive or accpeting things).
Option 2 seems to me to be what most people in the world would like to do; to create the goal for themselves as they move along. As one changes, in any direction one likes, the goal or motive behind that change is altered to fit the new subject's desires. This allows for a nietzchean creation of the self, man is nothing but what he makes of himself/he is his acts/ the lightning is the flash of light. This I think is wrong.
Option 3 seems to me to be a perfectionism version of reality... that I like. We see the goal, as if through a mirror... darkly. We grope toward that goal, our vision of it becomes clearer. If we grope after some other goal our vision of the first goal becomes faded. By moving closer to the goal we change and become better able to see it and hopefully understand it. But, I have doubts about our ability to communicate what we might see even if we were standing next to the goal... metaphorically speaking.
I agree that stigmatization is another way of saying dehumanization. It is sad, and I think it is wrong and unhelpful. But, to draw a harsh comparrison between two large beurocracies: We can (even if we don't) treat criminals like humans without disregarding their crimes. Likewise, we should be able to treat mentally ill people like humans without disregarding their affliction. To treat everybody the same, as if every human variation is equal, is lunacy. All physical states are not created equal, nor are all mental states. Some people are healthier than others, some are stronger, some are weaker. Likwise some people good some are evil. Is it any one person's place to pass judgment on these things universally? No. But that is the position we are put in each day with particular circumstances, i.e. should we help the criminal with the broken leg or the child with the broken leg?
To call mental health the ability to grope around and make myself anew in my own image seems to me to be doomed to failure. We will not unite as one big happy human family, we will not accept eachother more as "individuals", and we will not respect our differences. If all that binds us together is our common behavior of recreating ourselves, all we will have in common is our own selfishness. That definition of mental health seems to me as though it will compound our problems.