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 31: Now! All Who Never Thought They Would Ever Get The Chance to be on the Ready Line and be Counted. Now All of Them Understand They Were Wrong!
I have dreamed of these coming days all my life. I have thought of these times endlessly arriving before me. Where something that actually matters would befall me putting my very life on the line. My life huh? Compared to the women, men, children, the elderly, the sick and dying all giving their last ounce of strength pulling on the ‘end of the rope’ for the goodness of humanity to win the day!
Lo and behold. First Father knew America would lull many of us to sleep with dreams of wealth and privilege. With their fat bellies. Evenings in ‘Ball Rooms’ with exclusive feasts filled with people that loathed to see, even from a distance, the ragged unkempt and wretched poor, stealing the festive mood they so aptly succeeded in reaching. Dampening the spirits of the rich should be a crime. Maybe I should get those Republican lawmakers to write it into law if I can pull their suctioning lips off my open ass cheeks. That should give me a hearty belly laugh sayeth the rich man!
Make no mistake what these times hold everybody. By everybody I mean the honored elders that are still alive. The honored dead that had the wounds, internal and external, to show for making America and the world a more just place.
Listen to me now. I want to be crystal clear. I don’t care who the perpetrators of genocide are or how they squandered whatever good will they claimed from a Holy Bible they cared nothing for. Whether they are Jews or Gentiles. All of humanity has the right to go after the ones who went after you. None of us have the right to kill however many civilians because they live in proximity to the criminals that hurt you.
That goes for the dead Iranian children. Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip. Gulf States civilians caught up in the conflict started by America’s foolish President.
All of us that have wished to live in a time where we had to believe, and be a part of something greater than ourselves knew this would come.
Count it all joy my fellow shepherds! We will all contribute this time. Not just a few giving their all, but all of us giving their all!
We press on to the mark.