We
read and hear about Mental Health and how it may be the new wave of modern
times. There are clients (consumers),
and others outside of mental health that don’t think so, at least not many of
them, yet mental illness affects millions of people every year in America;
whose to judge. Most people who need mental health assistance, having become
diagnosed or not, rarely receive the help they need and the reason is money and
of course their own feelings of receiving mental health assistance in short, shame.
Because
Mental Health has a stigma of its own coupled with its high cost, many people
despair; while others become lost. They
say Mental Health these days needs a new uplifting, where there would be a
newer point of view as to how people can see their lives and how their challenges
can be approached. We are all
potentially under the guise of being mental health patients, we all have
concerns, issues and problems we don’t care to admit to. Our challenges may make us weak or feel
imperfect and threaten our way of survival; yet when we see these are
categorized and labeled as “symptoms” of mental illness, we turn and run in
denial because we have lived a certain way for a certain time.
The
attitudes of society about Mental Health and its culture, threatens us every
day, more than the issues we are dealing with and with this, many prefer to
suffer in their own way rather than to be known as suffering from a mental
illness, and so many others who may be suffering from a mental illness go to
extremes to obtain drugs, illicit or prescribed instead of becoming labeled,
move on to live in their perfect world.
Mental
health is set in motion by good will, professionalism, empathy and caretakers
who treat our malignancies or disorders not knowing the feelings that are
brought down upon us. There are
solutions which can help a person who suffers from a mental illness which help
to maintain an emotionally healthy way of life.
It’s simple. If we converse, we
will find these conversations the necessity of our emotional well being, and that
missing link can improve the early-stages of mental health care. Conversation is constructive and has always
been proven to be therapeutic to help others become empowered and to become a
part of the social structure, instead of withdrawn and living a life in
despair. We become constructive through
conversing about our ideas and problems and we move forward from the old
reality of suffering into the new reality of acceptance and self-esteem not
only of ourselves yet of the Mental Health system itself.
Written
by Donald S
