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. 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 39: Knowing You Can Do Better. How Do You Grasp That Missing Element?
First off. Sure. Someone can point out the missing catalyst that could cure your immobility against something you want to accomplish. Being at a stall is not the culmination of your gift or gifts. I picked up a technique I learned from a Registered Nurse at Lincoln Trail that has worked quite well for certain mental blocks. She said, ‘Pause’. Yes. Your reading comprehension is still intact. ‘Pause’. Just give it a beat and let all the information be gathered by your senses. All your senses if you know what I mean. Every one of them that are receiving input in the moment.
My last post on this digital newsletter was about receiving a warning of violation of City ‘beautification’ standards. That’s what I call it anyway. Full disclosure. My lawnmower was the problem. I thought a cheap product could allow me to cut the grass when I felt like cutting it. Obviously the one I had wasn’t up to the task. Good news. I bought a lawnmower rated number one by Consumer Reports. Yes I have a membership. It’s the best walk behind you can buy. It performed well beyond the criteria established by CR.
This is my point. I learned that having a voracious appetite for wisdom and knowledge doesn’t guarantee it’s consumption will enhance the part of you that is desiring to turn that received knowledge into creative solutions for yourself or humanity. Or develop superior reasoning to meet a person’s needs. Or. Maybe if I process the information under more strenuous conditions it will enhance my perception of how I can use the wisdom and knowledge. How what is given me is useful. Many discoveries I’ve been told were made under desperate conditions right?
For me. Most, not all, of what I’ve based a life of learning and hope for growth upon frankly never materialized. Now please do not get me wrong. I am not here to discredit any source of information discovered by scholars and lay people alike. I just walked my journey and I now know my path to enlightenment was unique. I just had to believe that my journey is my own.
That’s what I know. If what I read and discover from here on serves me I will use it. If it does not I will not feel obligated to endorse it. ‘Co-sign’ in Black people parlance.
You know what though? I’ll tell you what it felt like freeing myself from my stubbornness. The movie ‘Lucy’ with Scarlett Johannson when that drug busted inside her and her brain lit up like a fireworks display. That’s how I felt.
Don’t lose your zest for intrigue to find out things in life. The things in life that enhance you and do not destroy you that is. Don’t get it twisted.
Be well.