Parsing Mental Health Treatment

from Miraculous Treatments to Neuro-Developmental Conversion Therapy & Everything In-Between

Val's Take/Conjecture

One of the Symbols on the Orchid website is "MIXED BAGS" ---

• that often accurately describes not only mental health patients but mental health clinicians as well ---
• and often in the same person

So the "MIXED BAG" of the patient can be HIGH SUBSTANTIVE STRENGTHS --- but certainly the "perception" of LOW EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING ---

• even if that LOW EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING is sometimes to often the RESULT of getting pushed outside our individual ENERGY ZONES
  • Which is quite a "MIXED BAG" itself often including periods of "HYPER-FOCUS" or "HYPER-ACTIVITY" --- and a subsequent need to "CRASH."

WHO is PUSHING --- NEURO-DIVERGENT people outside their ENERGY ZONES:

• Often Neuro-Divergent people themselves
• WHO are SUPER-SENSITIVE to their ENVIRONMENTS and are in largely HYPER-COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENTS in most parts of the world.
• That sure FEELS like Orwell's "ANIMAL FARM" --- We're all equal --- Some are just MORE EQUAL than others.

BUT the SOCIETY is doing plenty of this PUSHING OUTSIDE OF HOMEOSTASIS as well. 

It's just been really hard to get our heads around High Substantive Strengths / IQ over 70 and SIGNIFICANT EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING challenges when compared with the NORM or Neuro-Typicals.

It's been particularly hard to address this PARADOX of "GIFTEDNESS" or "GENIUS" and "MADNESS" even though it has been referenced SINCE ANCIENT TIMES.

NOBODY WANTS THE "MADNESS" PART.

It is about SLOWING DOWN in come respects--- but often not how we think or clinicians or even REASONABLE PEOPLE would think.

Clinicians in many parts of the world have gotten amazingly skilled at addressing the MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS --- even if there are still a lot of problems.

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What MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS often SUCK at --- is after the Crisis because they don't understand and the person often doesn't understand that under all this TURMOIL and UPSET and COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION is ----

• A Neuro-Developmental Difference(s) involving shared genes, developmental systemic inflammation and hyper-connected brains.
  • And this is making it hard if not impossible for the person to meet current demands as they are currently structured.
  • Due to differences in EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING and ENERGY.

 

• So at least some people in Colorado notably mental health advocate Amy Smith --- and myself --- find --- that to truly get better ----
  • You need to do your own RESEARCH, and
    • for some people --- you may ultimately need to get away from the MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL

It is NOT MY OPINION --- that is the IDEAL SITUATION.

I didn't do all this research because I just wanted to --- I'm a big believer in the PRINCIPLE of LEAST EFFORT ---

• everything you see on this website was an enormous amount of effort for me and came at great personal sacrifice ---
• I'm not very happy about it ---
• BUT my life and the lives of my family are NOW --- and I couldn't wait for MENTAL HEALTH and the SOCIETY to get on top of this.

Failure to provide the RESEARCH and TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH SUPPORT necessary and to FULLY INTEGRATE Physical and Mental Health mean Mental Health IS NOT COMPETENT and they don't have the TOOLS to become COMPETENT.