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Mental illness caused by a bad society

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Where do you draw the line, is mental illness medical or caused by society?

If a Jew was mentally ill when they were being persecuted in Nazi Germany, it would be hard to draw the line.

Black men are a lot more likely to be sectioned in mental health hospitals. Perhaps that's linked to racism being more prevalent towards black men in the UK?

Autistic people are significantly more likely to kill themselves and die young than other people. Is that genetically inevitable or because society drives people to it?

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  • In the Western World our notions of health in relation to ' health care ' do not make any sense even to the most practical and logical mind and furthermore, the notion in Western medicine, that the body is somehow separate from the mind, and therefore treatments should be separated is absolutely absurd, yet it continues to this day. 

    It has been understood for thousands of years that the only approach to health and well being that should be taken and is successful is a holistic approach. In other words, have the patient and their problems in totality at the forefront of any treatment. In times past this was determined by the wise or elders, medicine men, healers and shaman who would also have known the person in question or their family. This could have involved getting to the crux of any problems, illnesses or any other health or well beings problems. The human spirit usually has an answer.

    When the human spirit is disconnected, when tribes are disbanded, when communities are no longer in charge of their own destiny, when there is no togetherness, when there is no pulling together for the greater good, then there is no humanity. 

    Unless communities are able to be naturally in charge of their own futures we will continue to be sick physically or mentally. 

    That's all.

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  • In the Western World our notions of health in relation to ' health care ' do not make any sense even to the most practical and logical mind and furthermore, the notion in Western medicine, that the body is somehow separate from the mind, and therefore treatments should be separated is absolutely absurd, yet it continues to this day. 

    It has been understood for thousands of years that the only approach to health and well being that should be taken and is successful is a holistic approach. In other words, have the patient and their problems in totality at the forefront of any treatment. In times past this was determined by the wise or elders, medicine men, healers and shaman who would also have known the person in question or their family. This could have involved getting to the crux of any problems, illnesses or any other health or well beings problems. The human spirit usually has an answer.

    When the human spirit is disconnected, when tribes are disbanded, when communities are no longer in charge of their own destiny, when there is no togetherness, when there is no pulling together for the greater good, then there is no humanity. 

    Unless communities are able to be naturally in charge of their own futures we will continue to be sick physically or mentally. 

    That's all.

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