New Models for Pedestrian-Access Psychological Support
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Another nutritional component of mental health is copper. Check out Dr. Pfeiffer’s work. And from Andy Cutler’s work we learn that mercury might be a contributor to the copper imbalance that could be a contributor to mental health.
Along with this is educating on the difference between the medical care model and mental. Many come to mental health therapy for medications or a quick fix, when it is a process to understand the impact of the deeper-rooted challenges impacting a person, and the steps to work towards change.
Also, I would add changing the current licensing from state to state, we’re short-handed because it isn’t always easy to move and continue practicing since each state has different licensing requirements. If medical professionals can travel and their licensing travels with them, why do we continue to allow licensing organizations to dictate the added costs in order to continue practicing if you move to a different state or if you wanted to provide virtual services to those in areas with need for qualified mental health professionals?
I would also add that any agency or organization should have to adhere to a code of ethics. When corporate leaders try to set up these larger, online services, they have no understanding of what we can/not do, which results in them pressuring providers to outside of scope of service, which results in providers quitting and feeds into the shortage of providers.
I can resonate with what you’re describing! It feels a bit triggering when my therapist always asks “so what would you like to work on today?” and I’m not the expert and don’t have the ability to know sometimes so my hour of time and money is wasted with no clear direction. I understand that my therapist wants ME to come to my own healing and I’m someone who appreciates that challenge, but it also feels like it makes the process extremely slow and at times, it WORSENS my mental health because I feel like a failure who is unsupported/unimportant. I’m not able to heal myself on such a deep level without the guidance of someone who IS mentally balanced.
I’m also very distrusting of therapy though and wonder if I’m being “diagnosed” incorrectly or given improper tools/advice but that’s a whole other discussion having to do more with “authority.” Either way, therapy is HARD and should be held in a more positive light…afterall, everyone probably has PTSD after the last 4 years and we need a Collective therapy session together! Haha
This report, “Improving Mental Health Outcomes,” put together by the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights, provides some excellent suggestions for improving the system, especially for those diagnosed with “severe mental illness.”
If you’re going to have someone involuntarily committed, do it based upon the targeted person’s actual intent, and not because you personally “feel threatened” by someone “being loud” or “not doing what you told them to.” This one was systemically abused during covid.
Hey @RainbowHeron , Can you please elaborate?
I’m not sure I understand the context of your statements here. More details will help. Thank you.
I am 24 and I have a full time job with great health benefits. Unfortunately I was struggling to find a therapist that was covered by my insurance. When I did the bill was still significantly higher than I expected. I had to stop going and a few months later I was in the ER for mental health. As I got sent to a mental health facility I noticed that a lot of people were in the same position as myself in terms of their insurance. I believe mental health is a real concern in our country. Especially with young people like myself and I would love to see insurance companies have a plan designed specifically for mental health.
Hello, this needs to be done asap because there’s SO many people struggling with their mental health right now that are not seen and heard. I struggle with CPTSD, OCD, and Borderline Personality Disorder with some DID as well. I can’t keep a job and I can barely function or take care of myself. I’m very lucky that my boyfriend is supporting me but without him I would be homeless. I don’t talk to my family very much because a lot of them are narcissistic and have a lot of addictions and they are just very hard to be around. I have a hard time going outside by myself and leaving my apartment. I can’t afford therapy anymore and I’m running out of medications and options. Please please please a lot of us are hanging on by a thread and I’m very close to losing hope. I just need help with regulating emotions and focus because I get overwhelmed easily and shutdown and then I get stuck in my head and can barely do anything. Please help us!
Hi! Am new here and after scrolling awhile, I have not yet seen the creative/expressive arts therapies as a viable “alternative/complementary/integrative” therapy for mental health. Many people have difficulty with traditional “talk therapy” and yet the arts therapies are typically not reimbursable through insurance. What I have to do is incorporate music therapy into my LPC practice, when it would be more beneficial for the music interventions to be primary. I’ve worked in MH for 30 years and with combat veterans, persons with acute and chronic MH diagnoses of all ages, complex trauma cases, etc etc and Music Therapy has helped most of them progress more quickly (their words) and also helps them to have a way to regulate through intentional music engagement during their every day lives.
I am a spiritual director who has spoken with students in schools of psychology where 3/4 way through their program they are subjected to Marxist professors & critical race theory. They are told to guide their clients toward the possibility they are gay or lesbian through coloring books and other manipulations into their psyche. The reason given in several cases was to overturn the male hierarchy. This causes the students I know great anger. Many psychologists are more interested in promoting the gay alternative life as a solution to anxiety, steering them into it, than truly seeking the good of the client. I am sure the same is true of gender confusion, as you say.
Question to ponder: Is there any such thing as “mental illness”? No, there is not. The “Bible” of psychiatry is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental DISORDERS. They don’t say mental illness, because they are physicians trained in the medical model, where a disease must demonstrate a gross, microscopic or chemical lesion in the body to be considered an actual disease. No mental disorder can meet this requirement, ergo: there is no such thing as a mental illnes. The next big lie of psychiatry is to realize that a mental disorder not being a physical condition, could NEVER be cured with a material substance like a psych drug. Mental events are not material, they are psychological or spiritual. They are not “things”. They are ephemeral and insubstantial. This is why such things as talk therapy can work, and drugs cannot. No one has ever been cured of a mental disorder with a drug, although many have died from drugs. It is time for a new paradigm in dealing with mental distress.
Thank you @tekla14
Your comment touches on:
-Upgrading Diagnostics
-Medical Protocol Redesign & Long Term Care
-Therapy Modalities: Science vs. Pseudoscience
Your critical and inquisitive mindset is not commonplace. We need more rigorous attention to detail.
There are a-lot of unserious and unscientific abstractions that are taken for granted when we start talking about mental health. We must make this work (psychology) more concrete and measurable. We should have a system of care that incentivizes adaptation for all individuals to lead a meaningful productive life as a member of society, instead of being enslaved, or addicted, to it.
Because we must deal with abstractions - I appreciate your perspective. Evaluating the quality of medical services, even abstract ones that may lead us through emotional and/or spiritual crisis; stand to benefit from this dialectical approach. This mindset is the basic tool for leveraging better methods further down the road.
Our definitions of “illness” varying from one field to another is an inconsistency which reveals the paradox of treating psychological disorders with “medicine”.
In the current paradigm, a person struggling mentally will receive a different level of care depending on whatever particular agenda their ‘provider’ is equipped to deal-in. A person with a singular but abstract issue, is at the mercy of a system that is equally as abstract! E.g. A therapist in one school of thought, may arrive at a different conclusion for what is ailing a person from a psychiatrist from another. Who is the proper expert? What is the properly streamlined route for diagnosis? How can we observe true progress and the eventual graduation- OUT OF therapy? What model exists for this? …
I am trying to hack away at this in this forum.
As you mentioned: we don’t refer to mental disorders as being"cured" or “curable” but…
Those with mental disorders need a coherent methodology of their own, just to navigate the system. This is over-complicated. We must establish a clearer path to addressing their needs , with in-built trajectory of hope for the future.
Please include Dr. Ben Lynch, author of “Dirty Genes”, Dr. Georgia Ede, Dr. Chris Palmer and others who have written about the mental health crisis.
Environmental toxins, flaws in dietary recommendations (to benefit big ag and big food companies), and flaws in the education (indoctrination) of doctors and teachers all contribute to the mental health crisis.
The universities training doctors operate in a system that does not have true health as the goal, but rather the creation of perpetual patients. The whole system is designed for monetary profits first and foremost.
We need a cultural shift towards natural healing. Local farms providing fresh meat and eggs to their neighbors; intact families with stable relationships where mothers are encouraged to stay home for the first 3 years of life of their babies (see Abigail Schreier’s book); support for smaller, local public, private, and homeschools; public art and parks, are just some of the aspects of improving the mental health of a thriving society.
It is criminal the way we have allowed children to be guinea pigs with chemical interventions to force them to sit at desks under fluorescent lights, fed toxic foods and separated from parents and families for 8 to 12 hours a day. Public schools have “before school care” the whole school day and “after school care”. Some children are at school from 6:00 am until 6:00 pm. They don’t have connection and bonding with their parents. They don’t get to play in nature, or have unstructured play that fosters imagination. When they are allowed outside, it is for 15 to 20 minutes on a playground full of plasic - even chopped up “recycled” tires! They come in covered in toxic black grit from the chopped up tires that they are forced to play in.
Is it any wonder they are sick physically and mentally?
Schools need to be completely redesigned and the teacher training needs to be overhauled as well.
All of this contributes to the mental health crisis.
Communism in Education by The Kids Are Not Alright
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The X link above shows some of the harsh realities that our Veterans are facing every day and gives an indication of why we have so many vets that commit suicide every day. This hits home hard as I have heard my son who is a 100% disable veteran that retired from the USMC. He has had the exact problem with his doctors moving and he shows up for a VA Doctors appointment only to find out that his doctor is no longer there. He has no one to provide his refill prescriptions and is left trying to find someone to help. Why are we letting this happen to the veterans that gave so much and then are left forgotten?
I genuinely think this is a key issue. When one of our kids was spiraling in late high school, the waiting list for covered care was 8-12 months unless we were referred through emergency inpatient services, which were not covered. I have very good health insurance, and live in a metro area with significant resources, but there are simply no resources unless someone is in crisis. We shouldn’t have to wait until someone is in a life-threatening situation to seek help. If the remote therapy options online are staffed by certified counselors and can be validated, why would they not be covered just as any other telehealth program?
I own a holistic clinic and have seen many types of what we call mental health issues. We get remarkable results when addressing physical, mental and spiritual. Physical example treatment might be nutritional IV’s such as NAD for example, along with Thought field therapy to address a situation that is considered traumatic and hypnotherapy possibly for spiritual issue. What is not commonly know is that many people who are diagnosed with schizophrenia (maybe because they hear voices) is that most always there is a attachment issue (another soul who died but has not left). Drugs are not the answer… nutrition, detox and spiritual aid is.