Being comfortable will not lead to health or peace. Our mind evolved to wrestle with problems for improving our chances of surviving and thriving. Now we use our mind's for defending flawed concepts (political, religious, cultural, social, economic, philosophical...). Stress is not bad. It's required for growth of every system in our body.
"There can be no health without mental health." Rawle Andrews Jr., Esq. Executive Director American Psychiatric Association Foundation. July 2023
"The foundation of all Mental Illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering." Carl Jung
"Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and others will alter towards him." -- James Allen (1864-1912) Author Source: As a Man Thinketh, 1902
"To ignore the evidence, and hope that it cannot be true, is more an evidence of mental illness.'' -- William Blase
"A healthy mind observes and questions itself. This is the path to inner peace and happiness. Don't believe everything you think." - Vironika Tugaleva 2014?
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” Jiddu Krisnamurti December 28, 2007
"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.’ – Carl Jung
"Comfort is the enemy. Our minds and body were engineer for action and solving problems" Anonymous
“We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. And those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are a very powerful body; they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.” - Albert Einstein, 1934
“People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.” ― Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
“Some online games have become the new opium to poison the growth of teenagers,” Yu Xinwen, a vice president of Guangzhou University 2018
"All our lauded technological progress - our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal." - Albert Einstein
US surgeons are killing themselves at an alarming rate. One decided to speak out The grueling profession has long kept silent about mental distress. After losing a friend and quietly grappling with illness, Carrie Cunningham found a new way to save lives. by Christina Frangou 26 Sep 2023 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/26/surgeons-suicide-doctors-physicians-mental-health
World in mental health crisis of 'monumental suffering', say experts: Lancet report says 13.5 million lives could be saved every year if mental illness addressed. Sarah Boseley Health editor Tue 9 Oct 2018 18.30 EDTLast modified on Wed 10 Oct 2018. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/oct/09/world-mental-health-crisis-monumental-suffering-say-experts
Every country in the world is facing and failing to tackle a mental health crisis, from epidemics of anxiety and depression to conditions caused by violence and trauma, according to a review by experts that estimates the rising cost will hit $16tn (£12tn) by 2030.
A team of 28 global experts assembled by the Lancet medical journal says there is a “collective failure to respond to this global health crisis” which “results in monumental loss of human capabilities and avoidable suffering.”
The burden of mental ill-health is rising everywhere, says the Lancet Commission, in spite of advances in the understanding of the causes and options for treatment. “The quality of mental health services is routinely worse than the quality of those for physical health,” says their report, launched at a global ministerial mental health summit in London.
When it comes to mental health, says the commission, every country is a developing country. “Government investment and development assistance for mental health remain pitifully small,” says the report. The high cost of $16tn by 2030 is estimated from previous World Bank data on the loss to the global economy of people of working age with mental health problems.
In some countries, people with mental disorders are abused and incarcerated, it says. “Human rights violations and abuses persist in many countries, with large numbers of people locked away in mental institutions or prisons, or living on the streets, often without legal protection,” it says.
Prof Vikram Patel of the Harvard Medical School, joint lead editor, said mental ill-health caused “colossal human suffering” and was responsible for substantial numbers of deaths that are attributed to other causes. “Mental health problems kill more young people than any other cause around the world,” he said.
Suicides are attributed to deaths from injuries. Opioid deaths are considered to be drug misuse. “We are treating mental illness as a risk factor,” said Patel. “A lot of global health priority setting has historically been around diseases that kill.” The commission estimates that 13.5 million deaths every year could be averted if the underlying mental ill-health problems were addressed.
In many countries there is no expectation of help. Surveys in India and China, which have a third of the global population, suggest that more than 80% of people with any mental health or substance use disorder did not seek treatment. And when they do seek help, the quality is poor.
Human rights violations occur most often against people with mental health disorders such as schizophrenia and learning disabilities. “Tens of thousands of people with mental disorders are chained in their own homes, or in prayer camps and traditional healing facilities,” says the report.
When people are freed, it may be without warning or proper preparation for their care, leading sometimes to arrest, imprisonment and early death. “In 2016, a tragic case occurred in South Africa when the Gauteng Department of Health stopped funding a large 2,000- bed facility and allowed the dis-charge of vulnerable people with psychosocial disability into improperly licensed community residential facilities, leading to the death of more than 140 people,” says the report.
The commission recommends a much higher priority for mental health and parity with physical healthcare, as well as the integration of mental health care into routine primary care.
800,000 people kill themselves every year. What can we do? Lady Gaga and Tedros Adhanom Oct. 19, 2018 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/09/lady-gaga-mental-health-global-emergency-suicide
Most will only find peace of mind when we rest in peace. Our mind's evolved for wrestling with life's dilemmas and reducing preventable deaths, suffering, and environmental destruction. cw
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