Pithy saying - I have the power to make the world more beautiful - Plant a tree or some flowers today or do or say something that makes this a better place.
In this post, I'd like to thank all of the people who work in the mental health field. This includes counselors, social workers, mental health counselors, psychologists, and psychiatrists. It can also include preachers and priests to that extent that they provide counseling besides just 'pray to god'.
We need more of these professionals. There are far too many examples of people acting out that might have been helped by receiving assistance or help from counseling, psychotherapy, medication and/or even meditation.
We need to work on the stigma that exists that prevents people from seeking help. There are two facets to this idea. One is preventative and the other is reactive.
On the preventative side, just like physical exercise and diet are recognized as good interventions to prevent poor physical health, we must start advocating and doing mental health exercise to prevent or ameliorate poor mental health. For me, this starts with meditation.
The second part of this equation is reactive, once a person realizes they are in a funk they should give the same amount of thought to this mental health situation as they do to the pain of a kidney stone, stomach ailment or persistent cough. Go see someone to help with your condition. Unfortunately today, we have Urgent Care facilities and Emergency Rooms to deal with the physical, but we don't have the equivalent for mental health care. How do you think we should deal with this?
My son is a mental health counselor and I wish him the best of luck in his endeavor and thank him for working in this profession.
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