Challenges with Mental Health
Following on from my last “article”
I suppose this is probably more about a holistic view on the challenges – so kicking off with my favourite axe to grind being the lack of personal accountability of being out of tune with oneself, I will move on to the stigma of Mental Health (MH) and where it has come from.
As soon as you pop the word mental into a sentence – ugly images conjure up with uncomfortable feelings or yuckiness. These thoughts, feelings may well be subconscious but they exist.
Listen
We all know these words, phrases exist – spackers, sunshine bus, retards, fuckwits, idiots, simpleton. Humans can be vile creatures. We inflict pain, misery, and suffering on each other, ourselves, our wildlife, our planet.
Consciously or subconsciously, bettering ourselves over something or someone else is an instinctual need that’s generally out of place in today’s day and age.
I don’t need to beat Mandy half to death for that last pork sandwich because it isn’t going to be the last pork sandwich – there is too much of everything these days. We are glutinous. So weighing her up with negatives – again consciously or subconsciously is unnecessary and probably very inaccurate as we should never judge a book by its cover and that my dear friend is an important point to todays invigorating read.
I categorise pools of people when I think of Mental Health and Stigma….Individuals who are born with cognitive inabilities are those who fit into a group notorious labelled with all the horrible words you could think of. A highly vulnerable group who are often abused and taken advantage of.
Next up we have the Karen’s, you know, the ones who are proper negatron’s, the ones who always moan and just drag your energy to ground zero when before you were, actually happy, it was sunny outside. The Karen’s, usually overweight, husbands cheating and they’re just SO depressed you can’t bear to be around them.
Now I need to stop myself, the point is, when we talk about mental ill health – the words we use are shitty words because they generally are stigmatised with negative feelings and then, well you add that to a lack of understanding or empathy and you create the magnetic field of repelling energies.
So, to summarise succinctly – a significant lack of understanding and empathy. When you then add that to the lives of busy people – for example, a managers workload – they then rarely have the time or financial resource to actually provide the support or care required to help that individual.
And then to cap it ALL off – you then ask Karen to help herself and sort herself out and she’s too depressed to do it – or its too much effort. We are now programmed for quick fixes. That’s not possible for recovery.
It is a washing machine of filth to be quite honest with you. A never-ending cycle of complexity that no one detergent can clean and mend.
So, what can we do – you ask – I think – if you could do one thing to help change the world – I mean this truly – you need to work on yourself.
Imagine
Imagine if you knew who you are and where you come from on a deeply psychoanalytical level that allowed you to figure out how to heal the wounds you come across or were already aware of.
Imagine healing those wounds and through that work you figured out who you wanted to be and what you wanted to do with your life, and you started aligning every single decision you made to those desires. All because of all this mindful reprogramming you were doing, you were far more emotionally resilient to dealing with all the different types of life crap that lands, bouncing back properly and at a speed you manage because you don’t want to just stick a band aid on it – you want grow and heal properly each time. IMAGINE.
And then – don’t choke on your coffee – just IMAGINE what would happen if everyone who was capable of doing so actually did this for themselves, we could all be Beyonce – in fact – I’ve heard that she used to be called Karen – so if that’s not inspiration enough – then check out www.mindofme.co.uk who will provide you with the one tool you need to overhaul your mental and emotional wellbeing to set an example and inspire change and growth in those around you.