Mental Health: Equal Health
Written by: Victor E. Moseley
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First things first is we must wrestle this false superiority of knowing what is mental health away from the general conversation about it. Five 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 16: What If Your First Teacher…Is A Liar?
Building your life over a structural foundation that has debris strewn about the ground. Debris (lies) that are an obvious stumbling block which the mental disease of ‘American’ (at least I believe ‘American’ should be a mental disease in the DSM V) tells you to step over it (look down all the time) instead of looking up, ahead and all around you. This distracts you from the more prudent choice of clearing your foundation of discarded construction material you no longer need. Metaphorically.
This quaint notion that Americans have come to believe as righteous dogma of ‘protecting’ someone you care about from ‘truth telling’. What may be difficult to hear is decided by me for the other person. Really? In other words, I believe the receiver of this news is weaker and less able to handle or process it in ways that would not lead to their destruction. Again, really? Obviously that thought process is arrogant. ‘The truth will set you free’ has been replaced by ‘the lie is better to continue the delusion’ of self-greatness.
My Father made a point of making my Mother tell us we were not hungry when we clearly were. He made our Mother commit an even greater ‘sin’. What ‘sin’ is that? The ‘sin’ of backing up a lie when you know it is a ‘LIE’! In other words, my Father was threatening beatings, and I will add he carried them out, to make us believe that we were feigning hunger to stress him, or call him out on his failure to properly feed his children. Children I might add that he didn’t feel no pain, sadness, or discomfort when he was shooting his sperm into my Mother’s pussy.
That is the lie that struck me as obviously a lie. It said to me that he was aware that he was failing to provide food, clothing and shelter for the lives he chose to create! Think about that a minute. My Father thought that he could beat, intimidate, deny care and transfer the blame for him not doing what he contracted to do when he chose to have children. When he chose to create more mouths to feed. Do you really think that I wouldn’t find out the truth about his shenanigans?
Now to the topic of this writing. My Father. My first teacher. Is a liar. What? Did he really think I wouldn’t discover that fact? Of course, we all know that when you start lying you have to maintain the lies, or otherwise your children would really turn against you.
Switch your thoughts over to ‘print, digital, audio, verbal and touch forms of communication’. What if your first impression of reading a source of information is misleading? What if you’re listening to elected officials give an account of situations directly in the realm of their authority? What if you verified that what they told you were lies?
Take something so simple as ‘who won the United States of America Presidential election in the year 2020’? What would you think of an answer like, ‘President Biden is the President of the United States’? To quote Captain Picard, ‘A lie of omission is still a lie’!
You have now branded yourself a liar. That’s pathetic. These ‘Republicans’ speak great swelling words of vanity, but they don’t know that the truth is spoken ‘completely’ when asked for an answer? Gosh, another person can make you ‘reduce’ yourself to standing beneath a floor of ‘truth’ that people expect you to stand upon? People in leadership must never dip below that floor should they?
Do you really believe your ‘name’ is not forever tarnished by such a capitulation? Tarnished by a willful act to never give the ‘truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God’? Because another person told you not to do so? Maybe you were never the ‘upright’ person everyone assumed you were?
That is now the honest truth for all of these folks beholden to Donald Trump. I used his name instead of his title because his title is not something he will be judged by when he stands before God. Know that, all you Sadducees and Pharisees.
I will confess one thing I capitulated to with my youngest son from the pressure of his mother. My son couldn’t tie his shoes properly and I was adamant that he should be told this until he did it correctly. His mother told me that was too harsh for him. I complied and it ate me up so much that I, after a few days stewing about it; I told her that I would not lie to our son again. If he cannot do something I will tell him he cannot perform a task properly. I will help him master it, but I will not lie to him again.
I knew I was wrong to lie to him because I knew what my Father did and also by making our Mother back his lies. All my loyal readers, users and seekers of excellent content know this about me. I will never torture myself again like that and I do not. Don’t ask me if you’re not looking for the truth as you can’t be associated with me if you can’t tell me the truth, period!
Not to repeat a tune, but children, teenagers, adults, employees (we need to come up with a better descriptive meaning of what goes on between labor and management) and management know when you’re lying to them. Lying tells people you are an untrustworthy unlit safe harbor in times of choppy seas on dark unforgiving nights.
When you lie the first time; you will never tell the truth, if you ever utter it, to be received by others at no point ever again.
So when Facebook, X, the ‘Legacy Media’ and other sources of information lie or let lying flourish; there is no going back to the truth.
Man, sometimes these rich corporations act like parents of untalented children of whatever sport they profess their child is greater and more talented than every child that has ever played the game.
What If Your First Teacher…Is a Liar?