Good morning. I’m feeling maybe a little better this morning. I woke up earlier as I thought I might try to begin transitioning 5 weeks early for the beginning of school. I have to pick up Sonnie after school at 3:00 so I must run by 1:30. Faith will get out one hour later and will go to Denise’s room from her school as there is a huge flow of kids walking down to the elementary from the middle school. Hopefully she will do her homework and come home with Denise. Although I don’t know how we are going to work it out as she will be working on her movie during school which means I will have to take her and that will be another challenge for both her and me with her beginning middle school and me and my routine. I’m not worried about her but me… It is not really “her” movie as she is a supporting actress but it is her movie in terms of my typing. And sure, it’s her movie. She is just now getting to finish up some stuff for the other mini-series she shot in May. So we are learning a lot about movies as I suppose even big budget movies face the same type issues with the exception of a strict budget. The paper was full of good things I could write about today but they are all controversial. All I will say is we have a really messed up society in many ways. It’s a beautiful world full of amazing things and amazing people but it seems to get lost in the garbage of our world. Not just our country but the entire world seems to have gone mad. And sometimes I wonder if we will ever be heard because everyone has so many issues that when the one’s with the real mental issues try to speak up, we are drowned out by the noise that is society (much like the weed-eaters outside my window that are driving me crazier than I already am). I read an op-ed piece on the French being miserable and they have a higher anti-depressant rate and suicide rate than the USA. Not once did I read about mental illness it was just about the French being miserable and that if they did not win at everything they are unhappy. Okay, I have news for the author and anyone else who doesn’t know but again, there is a difference between having the blues and being depressed. I think anti-depressants probably are over-prescribed but that mental illness probably goes under-diagnosed. There was an article in one of the major websites about “Are We Over-Diagnosing Mental Disorders?” or something like that. I doubt it since so many people don’t come forward. At the same time when you go to a family doctor and he prescribes your meds maybe that is where the over-diagnosing occurs. I always tell people to steer clear of your family doctor unless you need a referral and then go prepared to make your case. I’m not saying there aren’t family doctors who don’t know some stuff but there is a difference between the knowledge of a psychiatrist and an internist or family practitioner when it comes to mental illness and disorders. My original point is that when you feel “clinically depressed” having your team win a game (and I think I have made my case as a HUGE TEXAS LONGHORN FAN) does not help. When you are depressed, the things that normally bring you pleasure don’t matter. So you actually do gain a whole new perspective on what is important in life. It was one hell of an eye opener for me I’ll tell you that. I learned what is truly important and what is not. So how do we get people to listen when the world seems to fall apart every other day with everyone concerned over issues that don’t affect them but they take a stand and more power to them for their bravery in that pursuit. But as I mentioned above, once you go through your own private hell, then you realize the order of things. How do we get people to speak out? How do we get people to understand? In a world filled with people protesting or demonstrating for everything but mental health care issues what do we do? How do we get people to understand so that they don’t think of the mentally ill as weak? And don’t get me wrong. There is a place for those issues and maybe they are much more important than ours but at some point this one has to take up some space. You know besides the whole, “There is no ADHD or ADD.” It’s all made up. Heck, I don’t know because I don’t suffer from it but I know people who do and they are not children either. Most of the time it’s about “back in my day…” Well, I get that; it’s the same with food allergies. I don’t remember anyone being allergic to foods back when I was a kid. But there are kids who are deathly allergic to peanut butter and it is no joke. Sonnie is allergic to citrus. She breaks out in a rash. Things may be more prevalent today due to a variety of things. I once read an article linking OCD to strep throat as a child. I had strep throat several times. I can’t tell you why I got it because my mom made me wash my hands every five minutes which may explain a lot right there. I don’t know and I don’t claim to know. I just wish we could figure out a way to talk things out and work on things and people would think before they speak (myself included) and we could be civilized and have real discussions on issues including Mental Health. While some issues there may be a fairly clear “right” answer, people still have to learn to co-exist. Regarding mental health, there is no real answer but a solution and that is getting people to listen and to understand it is real. And not just real when it is convenient which is what happened to me and how I got fired. Okay, I’m going to drink more coffee and go run. I will post some more stuff and I’m really glad everyone liked Indi’s post. More people should post. I don’t know if that made sense or not and my mind is a mess as I can’t seem to get a clear though in my over crowded brain. But I’m trying to organize a thought process as to how to go about doing this. I could always use help with any ideas. Personally, even though I got fired, most of the time I can disarm someone’s stigma fairly quickly. But the stigma shouldn’t exist in the first place. Do we automatically think someone who broke a bone is weak? No, because there is no stigma for broken bones. Thanks and sorry for the long post. Peace out and God bless.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 16:34:31 +0000
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