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RE: World Mental Health Day - The Reality Of Pyschiatric Services and How We Need To Embrace Our Mental Health and Let Go Of All The Stigma!
I like what you are pointing out here. Medication can be very helpful in certain situations, but often there are twenty other things that can be done to prevent a person from needing medication. To me, it feels like giving medicine to someone is the easiest way, when sometimes all they really need is someone that is there, to listen, to talk to them, to give them a hug when they feel like they are all alone. I'm pretty open about my own mental health issues, but I still notice that a lot of people don't know what to say when I tell them about it and then they get a kind of awkward. Hopefully one day, a broken leg and mental illnesses will no longer be treated that differently.
thank you for your lovely response @lackofcolor, we certainly are far to reliant on medication when really we need more promotion of self care and also in building and maintaining community. It is so true so many just need to be heard and understood and to be given wonderful healing in the form of human contact and touch xxx