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 10: Stress Testing: Degrade
Part Five
When did you feel it? What age were you at the moment you sensed that something was not quite right? Are you like I was as if balance of thought and knowledge was off between the genders? I must confess that when I finally slowed down my rush to ‘know wisdom, and to know madness and folly’ a cascade of answers came amidst the vexation of my spirit.
Why did Jesus allow a woman, characterized by men as unworthy, to touch him? Why did Jesus allow the substance of her body, her tears, to rain down on his feet? To wash his feet with her hair and kiss his feet with her lips? She anointed his feet with oil didn’t she? Oh, that’s not convincing enough men? Mary Magdalene went to the sepulchre early morning and saw the stone moved she went and told Simon Peter and Peter.
When Simon Peter and Peter looked into the sepulchre and verified the body of Jesus was gone, they left. Who stayed there? Who? Right. It was Mary Magdalene who remained weeping because she didn’t know where Jesus was anymore. Two angels appeared unto who again? Right you are again. Unto Mary they appeared. When Mary Magdalene turned again away from the angels she saw who?
So Jesus’ first appearance after his murder, ahh crucifixion, was unto a woman! This is all taken from the Authorized King James version of the Holy Bible. I must say a closer look at things does bring more clarity huh? All my life I’ve been out of balance because all the lore and glory of the Holy Bible was professed to be a record of the superiority of ‘man’. Huh? I wonder why that has always been the reading of the record wherever the ‘word’ of God was proclaimed? Proverbs 11:1…A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.
Just to recap for those that are late to the series. When did God consult with man or ask his input to make the woman? When did God ask permission of the man to use Mary? A woman betrothed to another man to bear the burden. To be the vessel of glory. To carry his son to term and deliver him as a savior to all the world?
Let me ask a simple question of men. If I need a product that would help me climb up on my roof to make repairs would I use a broomstick or a ladder? If I needed to tighten a bolt to lock a car engine to the frame would I use a hammer or a socket wrench? Lastly if I needed a contraption to carry provisions for a long journey would I use a backpack, or would I use a cart or wagon that would do the job without burdening the traveler?
Again, God said he made the ‘woman’ as a ‘help meet’. Do you still not know what ‘help meet’ means? Are you saying then man, of your ignorance, that God was deficient in providing you something that couldn’t actually ‘help’ you? Every evangelical man would answer that question in the affirmative. I said every evangelical man would say God failed to provide him an actual ‘help meet’ that could bring to bear what was needed in every situation to complete whatever task God set forth a man and a woman to do. Period!
This is the degradation of the scales of justice. I know I’m hardest on men on because I am one, but this degradation lies solely at the feet of women. Millenniums, centuries, decades have seen women just be reduced to no more than a ‘specialty’ tool taken off the shelf for a few odd purposes. Remember that verse, ‘condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth’.
Women, this must stop. I’m sorry about this slang, but I have to say it. ‘Check yo-self be-foe you wreck yo-self’. It starts at the voting booth. Change who represents you and start taking back ‘your’ BIRTHRIGHT!
I only see Democrats that will help make that happen.