(07-25-2022, 11:31 AM)Diana Wrote: There are plants that help with balancing mental health as well, aside from the paradigm-shifting psychedelics, such as St. John's Wort for depression. Plants are the healers on this planet. It's worth researching herbs and plants for particular issues.
Another point on this and later points on models of healing. Is that there are a lot of people that use free will to simply block out all of these tools. Like, another thing in the spiritual variety is prayer and I have seen how people reject that.
The example I started with of having some sort of correct diagnosis system I think is positive since this wisdom is what is mainstream and I think it can help because it gives what I have seen to be the only really effective thing which is... love and friendship. People are willing to take mental health seriously in those terms I think. There is another possibility I think which is brain scans. James Fallon who also talks in this area talks about just doing brainscans of everyone and starting the diagnosis again.
Quote:I have a good example from my partner's work. They had a new guy start last week who was an extremely hard worker, but he was loud and abrasive, but completely harmless. He was talking about his own life, asking a question in a discussion about his transgendered child. He never said anything offensive, it was more just a statement for discussion. Another co-worker was offended by the way he worded his question and was triggered, then demanded that this person be fired or he would not work with them. This person was transgendered themselves, and was easily triggered by the new employees way of talking about it. My partner tried to smooth over the situation by helping people see all points of view, but everyone was just so sensitive and easily triggered that the boss just decided to let that guy go instead of trying to figure out how to work someone who isn't afraid to express themselves. No one here seems to want to heal or learn from situations even when they are presented to them on a silver tray. There is so much emotional repression here, it doesn't even matter if they are female or male, they all seem repressed in one way or another. But our culture demonizing men having emotions has not helped the situation at all, looking at a guy crying like they are green with 5 arms or something, or trying to beat it out of them with dominance. It's emotional immaturity at its finest.
Imo this one is quite simple the transgender employee is STS. Mental health as we experience it is only a priority to the STO, STS is too superior for such concepts unless it is used to back up a victim narrative used to be parasitical.. I suppose that brings another element in. If there are people that are STS in our society going around intentionally harming others and there are a lot of STO people that are not inclined to defend themselves no matter the stakes (one thing I have learned) then that presents yet another pickle!