Compassion in Mental Health

A reader suggests adding a new subject to our ongoing conversation - that of compassion in mental health:

"The nature of the affliction directly affects the sufferer's mind. If the mind is the universal ordering principle, these folks are vulnerable in a very unique way.

The essence of compassion is: we are the same, there is no meaningful difference, our joys and sufferings are shared.

Mental health patients and everyone else are therefore the same. There's a beauty in that perspective."

Indeed.  What has your experience been?  Is there equity in the way mental health and physical health are treated?  How would a compassionate society meet these needs?

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Comments

[Mark Jabbusch MD]

I am a family practice physician. I 'retired' to step back from 'corporate medicine', and seek out alternative systems to deliver care, and to find areas of high need. I am now filling in part time at an inpatient psychiatric facility, and taking care of patients who are involuntarily committed. I have been stretched to find the person trapped in their mental illness. But I have found hope, humanity, and even divinity in each person. And I have found a dedicated group of 'care givers', rather than 'system managers.'

[sara lee]

Am made to understand that crack weakens the synapsis thus a lead cause of mental breakdowns,is it true?
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