I like the American Philosophy of letting it all hang out when it comes to Mental Health. It's the buttoned up, stiff upper lip attitude that is causing so much grief in this country. I'm afraid I have to point the finger at yon Saxons again or Victorian England with its emphasis on hypocrisy behind frock coats. Large families where cousins married cousins were not a healthy aspect of this past The Celtic fringe's 'Joi de Vivre' has been neutered into put up and shut up, and drink yourself to death. Hey,we are all one people, citizens of the world! We don't get enough Sun! That might have something to do with it. I don't mean Rupert Murdoch's rag but the huge yellowy, orange thing that your not meant to look at with the naked eye, for fear of blindness. Well we've all been blinded when it comes to Mental Health!
Maybe we do live in more enlightened times, but only just. The lunatics and the mad and the insane and the mentally unwell are now tolerated. They are medicated and tolerated. Whereas before there was outright discrimination, in the freak shows and the lunatic asylums and the concentration camps, now there seems to be tacit acceptance that, "As long as they don't cause me and mine a problem, that's all right".
Your meandering like a Ronnie Corbett Monologue! Get to the Point!
Oh yes, Mental Health! How do we measure Mental Health? The degree to which we are able to socialise and get on with other people, I have heard. Well that has confirmed that my own Mental Health is not up to scratch. Avoidance of social situations and strangers at all costs, has been my motto! Probably wrongly, I feel naked to the gaze of others. I feel that the effort required to mix, mingle, small talk, flatter and deceive is rather beyond me these days. I don't want to meet any of my social media friends in real life, that's too dangerous. Real life social interaction with persons not of my immediate family, doesn't really float my boat. I see argument, danger and the most heinous of all, compromise. Pick me up off the floor somebody, no stop, don't you dare, stay back, I don't know you, I don't trust you. We have been force-fed this canned garbage about human nature since the year dot. Trust, fear and faith. If we lose faith in human nature, we lose faith in our selves and our mental health is compromised. I'm sure you don't take your mental health for granted.....do you?
You must see through your own mask if you want to take it off - Deepak Chopra
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