Psychological distress is a valid human experience and no-one is immune.
It has a cause, a context and a timeline.
To call human suffering a disease, something pathological, is deluded. The biological model of psychological distress has no basis in science; it takes away from the equation between 'healer', sufferer and society the need for understanding, compassion, healing, prevention and social and political change.
The medicalisation of problems of living has to stop. We have a collective duty of care to bring about the destruction of psychiatry in its present form.
Human beings are not unbreakable. Countless millions worldwide have been broken in mind and spirit by psychiatric practices; turned into zombies by years of hospitalisation, by lobotomies, by repeated shock 'treatments' and by years of medication.
They have lived out their lives as institutionalised slaves, their inner light extinguished.
Instead of the biological-medical model of psychological distress, with its emphasis on brain chemistry as the 'cause' of 'illness', the Wellbeing Foundation approach is holistic, existential and humanitarian.
This humanitarian approach can usher in an era of prevention of mental distress, from which will follow a multitude of innovative changes.
The Wellbeing Foundation........
The Foundation was formed in 2005 to address the parlous state of the mental health services in Ireland, to deal with the issues faced by those who have to use these services, to carry out research and education programmes, and to provide advice, assistance and resources.