Thursday, February 02, 2006
We Are All Creation: The True Word of God
BUT if objects for gratitude
and admiration are our desire,
do they not present themselves
every hour to our eyes?
Do we not see a fair creation
prepared to receive us
the instant we are born
-- a world
furnished to our hands,
that cost us nothing?
Is it we that light up the sun;
that pour down the rain;
and fill the earth with abundance?
Whether we sleep or wake,
the vast machinery
of the universe still goes on.
Are these things,
and the blessings
they indicate in future,
nothing to, us?
Can our gross feelings be excited
by no other subjects
than tragedy and suicide?
Or is the gloomy pride of man
become so intolerable,
that nothing can flatter it
but a sacrifice of the Creator?
– Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
We Choose to See a Person of Great Value
© 2006 Mark Robert Gates
There is a general reluctance, in community mental health centers, to allow peer-led and peer-support, self-help groups, however, as clubhouse culture, http://www.iccd.org/, and the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI), http://www.nami.org/, demonstrate, there is great value in peer-involved, peer-led, self-help and peer-support. And yet, for all control, in these mental health centers, there is no return to a state of wellness or recovery, moreover, groups allowed, simply maintain most clients at a level of dependence on mental health care. As, an insistence exists of having to know exactly what an outcome will be, before peer-involved treatment begins, therefore, valuable peer insight into wellness and illness recovery is overlooked. Where as, in fact, each individual’s personality and psychology may present a perspective capable of, aiding in many, different successful outcomes.
Reliance on a day therapy approach, continues to make people see, suffering from mental illness, as making a lesser person. Denied, is any personal empowerment, of which, could succeed in freeing a valuable inner spirit from bondage. It can be shown, people allowed personal responsibility, for wellness recovery in treatment, may be able, to make better lifestyle choices, as well. As, in order to develop discipline, a person must do something disciplined.
Removing people from dependent, day therapy maintenance, and placing people into a clubhouse environment, where contribution is welcomed, can be shown, to lead to a path toward wellness. NAMI membership, also, can create a road to self-responsibility, bonding and a sense of personal belongingness, moreover, people have a value greater than monetary reimbursement. Wellness, recovery and rehabilitation, are only possible, if ownership of results, and outcomes, belong to each individual. Granting someone, this possibility, means giving up control, and allowing personal wellness, obtained through, self-growth, self-empowerment and self-improvement, of which, a person can sit back, and take a look, and claim, “Hey, I did that!” – Mark Robert Gates
There is a general reluctance, in community mental health centers, to allow peer-led and peer-support, self-help groups, however, as clubhouse culture, http://www.iccd.org/, and the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI), http://www.nami.org/, demonstrate, there is great value in peer-involved, peer-led, self-help and peer-support. And yet, for all control, in these mental health centers, there is no return to a state of wellness or recovery, moreover, groups allowed, simply maintain most clients at a level of dependence on mental health care. As, an insistence exists of having to know exactly what an outcome will be, before peer-involved treatment begins, therefore, valuable peer insight into wellness and illness recovery is overlooked. Where as, in fact, each individual’s personality and psychology may present a perspective capable of, aiding in many, different successful outcomes.
Reliance on a day therapy approach, continues to make people see, suffering from mental illness, as making a lesser person. Denied, is any personal empowerment, of which, could succeed in freeing a valuable inner spirit from bondage. It can be shown, people allowed personal responsibility, for wellness recovery in treatment, may be able, to make better lifestyle choices, as well. As, in order to develop discipline, a person must do something disciplined.
Removing people from dependent, day therapy maintenance, and placing people into a clubhouse environment, where contribution is welcomed, can be shown, to lead to a path toward wellness. NAMI membership, also, can create a road to self-responsibility, bonding and a sense of personal belongingness, moreover, people have a value greater than monetary reimbursement. Wellness, recovery and rehabilitation, are only possible, if ownership of results, and outcomes, belong to each individual. Granting someone, this possibility, means giving up control, and allowing personal wellness, obtained through, self-growth, self-empowerment and self-improvement, of which, a person can sit back, and take a look, and claim, “Hey, I did that!” – Mark Robert Gates
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