Mental Health

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Societal Issues

National & Worldwide Mental Health Challenges

Every human being has their own personal issues and strengths and weaknesses brought from their childhood to each new experience that they encounter. How they learn to handle them defines and somewhat determines who they are and might become. The fact that we are living in tumultuous times can increase each person's fears, worries anxiety, depression and anger significantly.

Here are fourteen societal issues, which impact millions of people almost everywhere or anywhere in the world.

1) Bullying

This often begins in one’s school or neighborhood. It often can have lifelong impact on the victim and also the bully. If not dealt with and handled reasonably appropriately it then can lead to much larger sometimes national examples of bullying, and it’s impacts grow many fold. See this section about how I personally dealt with my eleven-year-old daughter bring bullied in school.

Every one of these societal issues (there are more unmentioned) effects hundreds of millions physical and mental health, seriously compounding the personal issues, each of us struggle with on our own. They affect people on both sides of each issue both those on the right (conservative) and the left (liberal).

While my personal, political, societal views are rather strong and clear, HERE, I’m addressing these as a social worker / psychotherapist concerned about our society, country and world and each individuals ability to cope with the anxieties, fears, worries, depression and anger they have to deal with. As I talk about mental health it’s essential we try and do the following:

1) Analyze, understand and think deeply about each issue incorporating different ideas and opinions.

2) Feel the losses, the pain, the stress and anxiety of those issues that are meaningful. Share those with your loved ones and others. Get and give support!

3) Find a format, way, manner to ACT / BEHAVE to use your thoughts and feelings to help each and every one of us have fuller lives and opportunities. This starts with each one of us registering and exercising this extreme valuable right to VOTE!! Please, don’t think it doesn’t matter or leave it to others! If all of us VOTE we are most likely to maintain and improve our democracy

4) Lastly, this must be done without resorting to extreme anger or Violence!