This is from an emerging 3am inspired, hopefully temporary selfie series titled, "The Unflattering"
What is mental health? As of the past few years, and now at the end of 2022, “mental health” is a buzz phrase.
It’s been an excuse for bad behavior. It’s touted as a solution for what we see as societal ills. It’s a way to abdicate responsibility for our actions, both personally and collectively. It’s a sense of shame when we can’t see the symptoms within our own skulls.
Sometimes it’s permanent. Sometimes it manifests only on occasion, situationally. Those two aspects are not always mutually exclusive. One can wish.
Situationally is the one we occasionally experience during crisis. What’s disturbing and concerning is that the world is in a constant state of crisis. What’s amazing is how we garner resilience to ward off the permanence of such an ecumenical state of mind. Hopefully, that is.
What is a buzz phrase, or buzz word? They are, perhaps, coping mechanisms created to sustain humanity until working solutions can be found to move us beyond mere sustenance and stasis, and into a positive framework. Health itself is mental. Hopefully, that is.
©️Rick Burnett Baker
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