Healing the Ailing from the Disease of Tyrants

Dr. Sara Al Romaithi

Not every tyrant sits on a throne, nor is all oppression wielded by a heavy hand.
Some tyrants exercise their power with a smile, some cloak their oppression in the language of reason, and some convince you that you are the sick one… simply because they have the loudest voice. The disease of tyrants is an old ailment that reappears under different names, thriving in the unequal spaces between people when one holds the power to decide, and the other holds the fear.
As for the ailing, they are not weak as depicted, but rather a person whose energy has been depleted between obedience and survival, between the desire for peace and the fear of confrontation.
This book does not ask: Who is the oppressor?
Instead, it asks the more difficult question:
How is oppression formed?
And how does it leave its mark on the soul?
And how can a person heal without transforming into another version of the tyrant?
Here is an attempt to understand, a calm dissection of the ailment, and a healing journey that does not begin with bringing down the other, but with reclaiming oneself.