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I just realized how lucky I am to be born in this era. Even if I’d been born 20 years earlier, I wouldn’t be receiving the treatment for my mental health needs that I am getting and all the supportive help that I get. I’m blessed to be getting support from the consumer operated program I work at (which still don’t exist in many states), the behavioral health services provider that has given me my wonderful case manager, and my doctors who are either mental health specialists or super informed about working with someone who has mental health needs. Even ten or 15 years ago, stuff like this didn’t exist or was just beginning to exist!
Had I been born in a different era – I’d probably be locked in a mental institution right now as would many of my friends. We wouldn’t live in the community, we wouldn’t have volunteer or paid jobs, and I sure wouldn’t be writing on the internet! Yesterday I spent the entire day at a party celebrating the founding and progress of our Consumer Operated Support Program called The Self Help Center where people with mental health needs go to help each other heal and grow. None of that would have existed if I’d been born just a bit earlier.
What I went through in school when I began to develop depression was bad enough, but it would’ve been even worse. There would’ve been no more school for me – I would’ve been locked away from everyone instead of allowed to find a way to help others. Even though I struggle so much some days, I am still so grateful to not have to go through what people with mental illness in previous generations experienced. I’ve had my bad experiences sure enough, but nothing compared to what could have been,
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Yes, nowadays there are treatments for mental illness. Back in the days mental illnesses were taboo. I'm glad people can open up and talk about their problems, no one is perfect!!
Nope! You are absolute wrong to presume that if you are born in a different time or years you will be in the mental asylum. I am very sorry to tell that we can tell of what would be our situation if it were not in this era. Anyway, you are entitled for that assumption. But for me, you won't be suffering of what you have been before. Let's be more positive than the other way around. I repeat you would be more an asset that a liability if it it is a a different era or time of your birth.
I agree that mental illness has come a long way from what it used to be and it still has far to go. Yes, you would have been institutionalized because of your illness and it would not have been pretty. History can attest to that. I am grateful as well since we are able to help ourselves and to help others who have the same problems. We can also help to educate people about mental illness and to let them know that anyone can be affected by it.
My mom had a mental illness, my dad brought her to the asylum centre for rehabilitation but after staying there for a month, the doctor said my mom had emotional control mental problem, not the brain mental problem.
It was very difficult for us all in the family to cope with her mental illness. She could vent her anger out of nowhere all of a sudden and bring up the past history, causing everyone a bad day.
Then the next day, she would be in her normal mood, doing household chores as if nothing had happened.
medications didn't stopped her.
Instead, it was a stroke that had stopped her mental illness.
I have searched whole history I have not found anyone died because of illness, yea it is a fact a real fact without doubt. the main cause of death is pain or pleasure, Too much pain and pleasure extent heart and thus heart problems start and men died anon listening to the new of pain or pleasure. Alexander dies listening to the victory of his army while making revelry festival with his warriors.
Keep in mind, first human becomes ill after this starts many mysterious diseases in human boy it is the sign of your soul is angry with you you. You must change your self anon plus turn your negative thinking into positive thinking your physical illness will heal within days.
pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence.
In the Chinese city of Zhuhai, a young woman was rushed to the hospital in 2008 after going completely deaf in her left ear. The culprit was fingered as an extra-strength kiss with her boyfriend. According to a medic quoted in The China Daily, “The kiss reduced pressure in the mouth, pulled the eardrum out and caused the breakdown of the ear.” The prognosis was that her hearing would fully return in two months.
Man was created without the sense of pleasure and pain. St Maximos the Confessor tells us that pleasure and pain were not created at the same time as the body. Before the Fall, Adam possessed a noetic faculty, that is, a spiritual mind by which he could enjoy God. Pleasure for Adam was thus a spiritual pleasure. But Adam misused this noetic faculty and turned his spiritual mind towards sensual things and began to experience pleasure contrary to his God-given nature.