Distress: The product of ambivalence of mind

Ambivalence points to bipolarity, which causes a thought movement between contradictory states (i.e love and hate, peace and violence, happiness and sorrow, good and evil etc.). These extremes affections, act like two ends of a see-saw, unable to balance the state of affections and keep moving from one state to another, hence the distress. It is a common experience that if the mind settles in…