He is 14 and hears voices.
He’s been hospitalized more than 20 times.
She and her son are telling their story of a family on the brink. Stephanie Escamilla is tired of seeing the country focus on the mentally ill only when there’s a national tragedy. Mass shootings that shine a spotlight on mental illness actually stigmatize those who suffer with it. I’m sure that the vast majority, advocates point out, are definitely more gonna be the victims of violence -they often get beat up or bullied than to commit a violent act. With four children in the home, Daniel isn’t left alone with the others. Sharp knives are out of reach. Oftentimes stephanie sent her youngest son to live with his father for a year while she got Daniel treatment. Now look, the family takes safety precautions. Guns are no longer kept in the house. That requires extensive planning and coordination. It seems to me that if you were to ask people what their definition of mental health is you should likely get plenty of answers.
We tend to think of mental health regarding the dealing with or treating depression, anxiety, mental illness, and similar Perhaps we need to look at it the other way around. They will probably have a typical theme.they should define it in the negative, by what’s not healthy. Maybe a better definition of mental health is by how we proactively keep our minds healthy above all. We have a hard enough time working to keep up our current lifestyles that we tend to not think deeply about the future. Humans are often procrastinators by default so I suppose that Surely it’s no surprise that many don’t think about or spend time actively working to ensure their long time mental well being.
For better or worse the future comes eventually though and could’ve prevented.
They have also been shown to reduce anxiety, lift depression and even prevent or delay things like Alzheimer’s in certain people.
I’ve written before about how diet, exercise and certain natural supplements are shown through various studies to positively improve mental health and function. To have our definition of mental health be solely about dealing with disorders or disease once it happens is really short sighted. The amount of cases of depression, anxiety, stress and similar problems is increasing. Alzheimer’s and similar age related disease will increase as the population continues to age. Known the question is how do we shift the focus to prevention rather than making an attempt to put out these fires once they start.
We have to take ownership for our health. That starts with educating yourself about what actually is out there that can I’d say if they do not know or seem skeptical themselves therefore encourage them to do a little research of their own or find a doctor who has spent some amount of time looking into these things and can problems is increasing so we need to protect our minds now for the long period. Second, we need to change our definition of mental health and perhaps health actually to be about prevention and proactive approaches to a healthy mind. Lastly, spread the word. Help them to get curious about what they can do to keep a health mind. Help others around you focus on their. Nevertheless, be active now for you and for them.
