Friday 6 February 2015

Quietly Suffering: Extreme Emotions, Without Extreme Behaviour

The mental health services, and those who provide these services, need to recognise that it is not only extreme behaviour, but also extreme emotions, that need to be taken seriously and treated.  

Those who implode and self-destruct will always tend to be ignored, and are often misdiagnosed or not diagnosed at all.  This is wrong, and can potentially cost lives.

I also believe that mental health professionals should help more with social issues, such as housing problems, and not go into "not my department" mode so readily.

The fact that mental and physical health are so closely connected, is also not recognised as much as it should be.  You cannot treat one, but ignore the other.  It simply does not work. 

Not much else to say at present, but felt the need to say something.  Peace and blessings to all who read this post.