In blog post #3 I talked about the controlled -Choas- that mental health facilities deal with for a number of reasons, this choas is uncontrolled in the vast majority of mental facilities. The mental health rehabilitation facility in northern New Jersey USA was considered the best in the area by the clients themselves. The -Clients- with all their problems generally knew more about their condition and or problems better then the mental health professionals, this I found out the hard way. Many times a client was acting out for attention and when everybody just stood around too see what the -Professionals- did to help the client, my eyes really opened. In one particular case the -Professionals- did nothing time after time because they knew that the client just wanted attention, so on my own I stopped eating my lunch and went to him and calmed him down. Now this was happening at least once a week and each time I went to him and calmed him down so that after about six months the clients came to me and thanked me for taking care of him. The look on my face showed the clients that I did not understand their thanking me, they said that they knew this client was looking for attention. -But- who would be there for them if they were having a problem and then I understood that they know far more then the mental health professionals about -Trust- and -Kindness- and the real everyday problems of -Clients-.

Clients generally know what is happening to them way before they begin to act out or go into psychois or become violent -if- somebody takes the time to listen to them they can calm themselves down. The same thing about clients going into -Depression- if somebody takes the time you can get them out of depression, somebody just has to give a damn. Example, group laughter or self deprecating humor where somebody makes fun of themselves and this will get the depressed person to join the laughter and if you do it long enough they will respond. -You- do not need to be a mental health professional to really -Help- yourself or a loved one.

All of the above and more is telling -You- that mental health professionals are not the only answer and if -You- want to help yourself or a loved one -You- must become pro active in healing yourself or a loved one. You must learn about your condition and what medications and at what strengths to take etc. etc. etc. and use trial and error to find what works for -You-. Do not let these supposed mental health professionals experiment with -You- as the guinea pig, they do not care about -You- because very, very few clients ever get on the road to real recovery.

I think it's terrible that no-one has bothered to comment on your blog until now

I'm giving this a 4 star because I am destroyed by medication and you probably know by now they are torture, so I prefer not to hear spread the part about "You must learn about your condition and what medications and at what strengths to take etc. etc. etc. and use trial and error to find what works for -You-.". I have heard this kind of generic info from professionals and have come to the conclusion it's all surpringly full of horse $#%^. Conditions are mostly myth, I think it is across the board inaccurate to describe mental ill health as a mental illness because I think it is more broad than tha which through implication is ignored in that term, I think more accurately there are environmental illnesses where people are influenced by their environment which may be to result in and include mental ill health, the solution being to fix the environment that was broken. Medications are never solutions, sometimes they are partial solutions but always come with health deteriorating complications, an utter contrast to the idea of Kindness therapy which I am sure will work as a preventitive in the first place before being given/forced medication which deteriorates health to the extent it can be difficult to find enough joy in life to feel suicide is no longer worth contemplating. I really feel vehemently that medications are better off avoiding as if everyones life depends on banning them outright because really they do so much harm it's eerily unreal. Therefore I gave you one star less than usual for this one, I am forewarned by that I've quoted that it will lead to detracting from the rest of the brilliantly happy blog if things even only once imply condoning psychiatric treatments as acceptable, maybe you can edit that part out even?

I also feel I have been a bit harsh there as when I commented I hadn't read the last 2 lines which somewhat do explain, however I do think the previous implies medications can be worth trying as opposed to worth avoiding like a life sentance which I think is probably the reality for most people, especially backed up by the comment that "very, very few clients ever get on the road to real recovery.".