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most effective free mental health therapies across all demographics
Since the Rockefellers started pouring millions into mental
health research ( about 1950) it all became very unhealthy and it became mostly about money. It became more about lying to the public
about new breakthroughs; and down the road these breakthroughs resulted in
deaths and discarded people. Brilliant neurosurgeons
generated surgical procedures like lobotomies.
Toxic medications were used to numb people down.
When they have damaged
healthy brains enough and charged enough money, the patients were
discharged. Usually, they are discharged
to their families. The families then must
care for a damaged loved one on their own skinny nickel with little or no respite. After those procedures do not work and the
symptoms return there are few that will take any accountability for the mess
they created.
The mentally ill were problematic in the asylums. They tore off
their clothes and screamed all night long.
No one, including the other patients, could relax. Things have not changed over the last few
centuries. My brother, now deceased, described
his stay at the psychiatric hospital as a snake pit. The food is often worse than prisoners get. Those who work in the psychiatric hospital often
are not very patient. My son saw a patient
get raped. She was screaming “f..k me”
because she was so emotionally distraught.
It really damaged my son to see that.
There are so many types of abuse reported. I reported it and I had to go through many
pages of red tape. After about 6 months
I got a response saying, “thank you and this matter had been addressed”. That was all. The mentally ill are not regarded as real human beings who have value.
I have not seen the families uniting to change
the mental health system. It seems that when there is a great new uprising of voices, they are quieted or co-opted. That is a sad thing to witness. There is no
money for healthy therapies, there is only money for medication. As a social worker, I would pick up people
from the psychiatric hospital, but they were homeless. They had their baggy of pills but no roof over
their head. Their families probably
became exhausted trying to help and had just disappeared. Locating family can be impossible for the
social workers.
Once an ambulance took my son to a hospital, they gave me his
shoes and phone and keys. I went back in
the morning, and no one could find him. He
had no money, no shoes, no phone and Oh my God.
I was so distraught. The medical staff explained that once a patient is discharged,
they are on their own. Fortunately, my
son came walking up to me. He had been
outside smoking a cigarette. I felt like
a millionaire.
Van Gogh went to a lovely quaint
sanitarium. It was the inspiration for
many of his paintings. The stars
exploded in the night sky and the fields of grapes and sunflowers appeared vibrant
and happy. The nuns ran a very kind environment
for those who needed a calm atmosphere. This is one very beneficial type of therapy. People heal well in nature where there is a
calmness and nothing too exciting.
Both my brother and my son were musicians. Music is another healing therapy. Just having
someone to talk to is a miracle. Just being a good listener is a great benefit.
Often the mentally ill become isolated. Being in groups helps people connect. Art therapy, and narrative therapy are low
cost and quite effective.
I was reading about vitamin therapy. There was a trial study done with psychotic
patients. They were given intravenous vitamins. Their moods leveled off and they became
happy. Often the mentally ill people are
not eating well. They are mal nourished and
will die from uncontrolled diabetes and other ailments.
I doubt if I could prove it but, prenatal care prevents mental
illness. Moms with problems might be creating
a child who will have on going mental illness.
Dr. Wallach was a veterinarian, He was called by a zoo to do autopsies
on Rhesus monkeys. All the babies had
been dying within a few months of being born. It turned out to be a lack of
Selenium. In the wild, monkeys forage
almost all day. They know what they need
to survive. The zoo had changed their
diet and it was very deficient in certain minerals. The autopsies reveal these newborns had cystic
fibrosis. It looked like the human
disease but how could this be? Genetically
these monkeys were not very different than humans. This leads to a whole new topic. For years cystic fibrosis was thought to be a
genetic anomaly.
The end of this story is that pregnant and lactating mothers need
all the minerals and micronutrients found in the garden of Eden. The overly processed foods could be causing
lots of issues down the road. Good diets
and other simple therapies can help someone regain their mental health.
Unfortunately, Big Pharma develops lifetime customers. Our family is in recovery and doing better
than it has ever been. We are doing it
the ways I just described.
The best things in life are free.