Love Portals
- Reuben Berger

- Sep 14, 2025
- 2 min read
Updated: Nov 13, 2025
A Call for Transformation: From Psychiatric Institutions to Love Portals
The Root Cause: Loneliness
We declare that the vast majority of human psychological and emotional suffering stems from one core root: loneliness.
Loneliness is not simply the absence of company; it is the absence of felt safety, belonging, and love. When a child grows up without steady emotional presence, without the foundation of intrinsic security, the wound remains — often hidden — and shows up later as depression, anxiety, addiction, ADHD, borderline behaviors, narcissistic traits, and countless other so-called “disorders.”
We say clearly: these conditions are not diseases. They are symptoms of disconnection, fragments of a life deprived of love and community.

The Failure of Psychiatry
Modern psychiatry and clinical psychology, for all their textbooks and diagnoses, have tragically failed to treat this root. They have pathologized the human soul, turning cries for love into “clinical conditions.” They have sedated loneliness with pharmaceuticals, numbed pain with labels, and replaced healing with management.
A wrong diagnosis can kill. A missed root can leave a person suffering for decades. The current system, for all its resources, has not brought humanity closer to wholeness.
The True Remedy
The true remedy is not found in pills or in labels. It is found in connection, presence, and love.
A safe space where people can rest, breathe, and be seen.
Loving hosts who can provide the emotional security many never received as children.
Modalities that nurture the nervous system: meditation, breathwork, movement, sound, art, touch, nature, and community dialogue.
A culture of witness — where no one suffers alone, and everyone has companions to walk beside them.
Our Call to Action
We hereby issue a call for all psychiatric centres, hospitals, and clinics to cease and desist from perpetuating the myth of pathology.
We call for their transformation into Love Portals — sanctuaries staffed not with diagnosticians and drug-pushers, but with loving people trained in presence, safety, and healing modalities.
These centres must be places where a lonely heart can find rest, where a broken spirit can be nurtured, where every human being feels worthy of love.
The Vision: Love Portals
Hosts, not clinicians. People who listen, who embrace, who witness.
Healing modalities, not pharmaceuticals. Breath, meditation, dance, sound, touch, art, and rest.
Community, not isolation. Circles of trust, shared meals, laughter, and connection.
Love as the foundation. Because love is not a luxury. It is oxygen for the soul.
Our Pledge
We pledge to reimagine healing. To no longer accept loneliness as “just the human condition.” To no longer label symptoms while ignoring their cause. To build a world where healing is not about control but about connection.
We invite psychiatrists, psychologists, healers, guides, and communities everywhere to join in this movement. Together, we can create havens of love where no one is left alone in their suffering.
The Truth is Simple:
Loneliness is the root wound.
Love is the only cure.





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