08-20-2017, 12:00 AM
Yes! This is my stance too regarding the Western education and mental health system. Western education systems aren't developing decent human beings. It's a one-size fits a few system. Most children can't sit still in the way necessary for most schools. There's far more bullying in schools. The school district I worked in last year saw FIVE suicides. Our children are very sad and are opting out of life because they aren't receiving the sort of basic support from caregivers...likely because caregivers are very broken too.
The mental health system in America is failing people. We deem them broken when they are so far from being defined in the way the DSM thinks appropriate. The DSM focuses on what's wrong with a person and the solution is often prescriptions. It's not the correct way to heal people. How does making people feel broken and shunned (isolated) from society heal them? It doesn't. Shamans can heal. Spiritual communities could heal what's broken. I've met many who spent their childhoods being told they were different and broken.... and as adults, they decided to believe those lies. As doctors and/or healers, we shouldn't be telling people they're broken. The DSM should be revised entirely. Those diagnosed with PTSD are lacking a spiritual foundation (peer-reviewed scholarly studies have been published on this). It's incredible how inept we are at taking care of the spirit.
America has some serious work to do.
Education and the mental health industry are my passion and the fields I wander in. What you're sharing about these things are valuable. These fields benefit from having you in them.
The mental health system in America is failing people. We deem them broken when they are so far from being defined in the way the DSM thinks appropriate. The DSM focuses on what's wrong with a person and the solution is often prescriptions. It's not the correct way to heal people. How does making people feel broken and shunned (isolated) from society heal them? It doesn't. Shamans can heal. Spiritual communities could heal what's broken. I've met many who spent their childhoods being told they were different and broken.... and as adults, they decided to believe those lies. As doctors and/or healers, we shouldn't be telling people they're broken. The DSM should be revised entirely. Those diagnosed with PTSD are lacking a spiritual foundation (peer-reviewed scholarly studies have been published on this). It's incredible how inept we are at taking care of the spirit.
America has some serious work to do.
Education and the mental health industry are my passion and the fields I wander in. What you're sharing about these things are valuable. These fields benefit from having you in them.