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 27: What are Bridges Made of?
Forgive me now. I must do it again. By the Authorized King James version of the Holy Bible. I’m not going to list the entirety of the two verses of 1 Peter 12 and 13. Believe the meanings and lessons of spiritual enlightenment when performance of your duties require you to have strength of will and mental toughness. By that I mean an understanding that those two mandates should not be thought of as impossible to achieve.
Answer me this. Why does humanity believe that we must exhibit some ‘superhuman’ qualities to withstand our portion of the trials we must face? Huh? As if our ‘troubles’ when they are appointed, must somehow be ‘softened’ in order for us to transverse them successfully. Why? Who told us we are too weak to handle our ‘mental’ madness? Yeah, that’s essentially what it has become. Our madness. Human beings, in all our forms and fashion, have deluded ourselves into believing we are powerless to ‘run the race before us’.
Paraphrasing here. The verses said, ‘Don’t think it strange that you are under intense mental heat. Jesus Christ was confined to the flesh too for a while. That meant our minds are capable of the same natural mental strength and will’.
Yes, that’s correct. I have pondered this belief in America for nearly all my life after I reached the age of ‘ascension’. My mental discovery proved my theory correct.
Our minds have an expectation that we can handle our ‘fiery’ trials! Why do I believe this? Because his son, the First Father’s son, told me so by his example!
Let’s look at a metaphorical example. It is expected that our civil rights leaders will all die at their appointed times. What ‘Bridge’ did they leave standing for us to traverse the distance to calmer weather? These bridges our elders, in the Black community, have constructed. They constructed them through force of will! My elders left ‘roads’ and ‘cities’ and ‘bridges’ and ‘mansions’ for me to walk, rest, welcome travelers off the journey and ‘gather’ to remind each other to ‘respect’ the path their strength of will has cleared from the ‘forests of despair’.
Beware of ‘Sun Shine and Calm Weather People’. Why do you say that Victor? Because I don’t have time for people that when trouble raises an ‘orange’ head the weak scatter like roaches when you turn the light on in the projects. Listen to me now if you have never listened to me before.
All of us have it within us. I will say the first portion of our creation. The ‘hurricane and hail stormy weather cup’ is poured into our mix first. That’s what I believe. I have concluded my receipt of this knowledge and I must say it was empowering. My ‘Rite of Reformation’ has completed another step. Oh, some of you haven’t been with me as long as those of ‘mine’ from the beginning. Stay with me. I will share all I have learned with you.
Do this intellectual experiment. Think of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers, Jesse Jackson, Malcolm X, Muhammed Ali, the two Black Olympians Tommie Smith(gold) and John Carlos(bronze) who raised black gloved fists on the awards podium, NFL Quarterback Doug Williams started and won Superbowl XXII, Coach Tony Dungy Superbowl XLI champion and so forth. The bridges they erected. Are their bridges still standing?
Remember. We can only control the ‘Past’. What we chose not to forget. And the ‘Present’. What we chose to do today. The ‘Future’ is the sole realm of God.
My. Those ‘Bridges’ are an awesome sight to behold! Even better when you stand upon and walk across them. May they stand throughout. To the end of all time!