OUT IN BLACK
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Orated by: Victor Emmanuel Moseley
A Black Philosopher
Mission Statement:
Let us be sure of one thing. Time is not a destroyer of time. Events are still laden with choices. What has been made cannot be unmade. What has been chosen and fulfilled cannot be unchosen and unfulfilled. I have seen constructs manifested from people who claim piety inflicted upon innocent lives without the most basic display of human rights.
The lure of joining the loudest voices as they are amplified by the ‘legacy media’ of ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, The New York Times, Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal can and will offer many rewards, but the price is the stain of treachery that cannot be removed from your name.
Truth, is, alone. Truth doth not seek agreement. Truth therefore is undefeated in battle. ‘Out In Black’ seeks to exist close to wherever truth decides to stand. This podcast will never shy or cower to any unjust deed past or present. It is not an oath. It is simply a choice.
Come, uncover all that has been hidden and be free.
Episode 13: Ode to Years of Mental Health
I must sound the alarm on mental health for the legacy of mental health professionals. This post and video will be positive and a bit critical, but critical in the sense of learning by not putting faith in unfaithful people that manage these great mental health professionals with their egos. Management is the source of 99.9% of the problems in the expert application of the skills of my mental health professional brothers, sisters, transgender, gay, lesbian and every human being that chooses to live their lives by their own designation!
Wrong leaders
Good leaders
Staff not turning on each other is critical.
Having fun by dealing in the truth and holding each other accountable.
Mental health is my life. It is a calling that signals more to the dedication required for it than just exchanging physical and mental labor for money.
Behavioral health should be exactly what it is. It is not being sympathetic to patients misbehaving. They don’t need your pity. They need mental health professionals to call them out on their choice to be antagonistic to what is right and what is wrong.
Black folk sense: In the Black community we call that behavior trifling. In other words, ‘being stupid just because you can’.
Oh, this is sort of a knock on men. If men are so strong and powerful, why is the field of mental health dominated by women? Women of all races and colors? Men should be coddled and soothed? Really? I don’t care what political leanings get you cheering from your ‘Gameboy’ chair. Get off your ass and get in the game! I have witnessed firsthand these women. These women that you call weak and inferior take a lot of punches and stay engaged in a ‘hold’. Oh, if you don’t know what a hold is I will not help you ‘find out’.
Like I said. I have felt two times in my life where I really belonged. It was the United States Army and the second was in behavioral and mental health. The care for each other we must have in mental health. I mean we were all over each other literally. If you came into the unit and saw us on the floor ‘holding’ a patient you’d think we were lovers. Don’t get too sexual with your imagination now. We did it to subdue the patient and to keep each other safe.
The only other place I felt that kind of love was in the United States Army.
Conclusion:
Mental health is not a place to seek an income in the sense that the job requires more of you. How can I say this. Mental health is not a place to find yourself if you are still confused about who you are. Mental health is not difficult. It can only be difficult if you choose to deviate from the rules even for a second. That’s when you allow danger to pass through the ‘crack’. Being stout of heart and certain that this work is important helps stop a lot of patients from tumbling too far down holes they’ve opened underneath themselves.