Mental Health: Equal Health
Written by: Victor E. Moseley
Email: vemoseley@landcause.com
Blue Sky: vemoseley17.bsky.social
First things first is we must wrestle this false superiority of knowing what is mental health away from the general conversation about it. Eight years of Mental and Behavioral Healthcare experience has allowed me to uncover many expert opinions about it, and all such opinions deriving from seemingly enlightened patients. Granted some self-care explanations were on track, but being close to the answers cannot be the standard.
Therefore the philosophical nature of mass expertise is counterproductive and harmful to societies understandings about mental health in general. What then can psychological professionals do to dampen such a kaleidoscope of untrained sufferers diagnosing complicated mental disorders? My suggestion would be to produce a weekly periodical. A digital application on a smart phone with current news in the field. Produced along with a bevy of relatable leaders in the field cast on a short 30 minute weekly video. These non-stoic professionals will raise mental healthcare to the same respectable level as physical healthcare.
Many changes have led mental health to being reconsidered as a crucial opposite to the same coin of physical healthcare. More promotion is required if mental health is to achieve the position of equality it deserves for the benefit of humanity.
Issue 24: How Precious the Most Important Assets to Our Health Are Assets Being Unseen but Felt.
As you lay down to sleep, anytime along the timeline of your day. I wonder. How much do you want it to be restful? Restorative? Imagine that part of your blessed life being deliberately denied you every single moment of your life. Tell me? What would you do to find a way to wrestle it back from whatever torments you? More specifically. What would you do morally, spiritually, and virtuously to grasp that precious metaphysical energy back as it is being relentlessly pulled away with zealousness by the ‘hand of evil’?
Most human beings would answer like this. I would determine the source of my torment and seek to eliminate it. But what if you don’t have the power to end what is ailing you?
Let me offer the solution I use. My discovery of these mental rituals solved my ‘intrusive thoughts’ instantly. If you have hated anyone at any time in your life, stop hating them right now. If you have accepted a mindset of submission, stop believing you are oppressed right now. Finally, if you have determined that you are of no use or unhelpful to yourself, or anyone around you, stop that shit right now!
From the Authorized King James version of the Holy Bible…1 Timothy 5:8…But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
First, the definition is bastardized from its original meaning. Take ‘infidel’ apart. Scrip the ‘in’ and look at the remnant. It is ‘fidel’. Hold on a minute. I must say something. I have denied myself coffee for decades. I concluded, erroneously, that coffee ran through me and caused undesirable bodily discomfort. God, I was wrong! I love this shit now! I mix my ‘mushroom’ coffee with regular medium roast that kicks and I’m blissfully calm.
Okay, back to what we’re discussing about eliminating negative energy from the peace and serenity we all deserve. ‘Fidelity’, in the ancient meaning, meant for us to practice continually what is the restorative and renewable, being our spirit energy, to corral our corruptible flesh.
Take the Bible verse which it admonishes us to start with ourselves, you, in case you are confused. Help those in your household if you chose to have a family. Then practice casual observance of everyone, including looking inward at your own faults, and fight and defeat those ‘intrusive thoughts’, as Jennifer Lawrence’s confession revealed.
So, do not hate. If you are hating, stop it! Begin to separate yourself from those people that generate hatred within you. Forgive those who have done shit to you. I’m sure you’ve done shit, as I have, to others that you are so feeling justification to retain your hatred towards them. This is important for what I’m about to tell you.
The ‘unseen’ results will activate even before you lay down to sleep. Believe me or don’t. The mental ‘waste’ of all that you have been tormented by will finally be cleansed as you rest your mind. Metaphysically. Allow it to take place. I told you in the title of these events being invisible but felt. I fought many ‘intrusive thoughts’ with every defense technique I knew for many years. I told the ‘Devil’ to leave me. I should have told my own stupid ass to stop acting like the ‘Devil’.
All of us have had evil people do things to us. Harm us physically. Deny us accomplishments in our professions. Stand in the way of housing and employment. Hate us for our choices of who we love and who loves us. We, including myself, were misguided because of our misunderstanding of the power of ‘discernment’.
What’s the old saying that aptly applies here? ‘Charity begins at home and spreads abroad’. Fix yourself and your energy will ‘spread’ outward to help others fix themselves as well.
I’m about to finish. I must share a story from my life that could have cost me everything. I was stationed at Camp Blessing in Afghanistan. A soldier misplaced his M4 carbine when I was Sargeant of the Guard. I got a call over the radio to come to the command center. They informed me of the situation and asked me to notify the ‘command’. I said ‘Do you really want to do this, or just take a little more time to search for the weapon. Cause if I make the notification; the entire camp will have to be alerted to join in the search and disciplinary acts may be taken against the soldier’.
They said, ‘Give us a little time to locate it Sargeant Moseley’. I gave them some time. I think it was a few minutes later they called me over the radio to return to the command center. They informed me they had found the soldier’s weapon. I said good.
Yes, for all the soldiers that are members of my platform, my website. You know I took a huge risk in taking responsibility by giving ‘cover’ to the soldier and his supervisor to locate the misplaced M4. Yes, of course, I understand perfectly. No one sticks his neck out for anybody in this world. I did. I did it routinely.
All of you have read my posts. I cannot sleep peacefully when I know human beings are being stripped of everything they have. Human beings beaten by the Federal Government whose leader in Donald J. Trump is the embodiment of evil.
I have written before of slaves being tormented 24/7 to keep them under submission. The horrific scenes in my hometown of Birmingham, Alabama of water hoses turned to full blast in the hope of stamping out ‘hope’ from Black people seeking human rights and justice. The little Black girl running from the violence. I should say hopping on one leg because the other leg was gleefully broken by the Birmingham Police and Fire Department under the evil direction of Bull Connor.
Sound familiar? Yes, that’s right! That ICE agent Jonathan Ross celebrated shooting and letting Renee Good die in a pool of her own blood for the crime of civilly disobeying the authority of that evil man.
God, I have longed to have the strength of that little Black girl. I should have known this truth a long time ago. Black girls, Black women, White girls and White women have always seemed to be present in the FULCRUM of great change! Good and bad.
May your sleep now be cleansed and restored so you may wake up and resist the zealous tormenting of others in your name.