Jann Demystifying Affects

Hard pressed to find rare examples of mental health recovery, a first hand proof is success of Work Plus. Working enough for independent living without supervision is what I call Work Plus recovery, without regard to feelings in the Social Security bureaucracy tradition. Similar in a finer vein was working 2 full time equivalents (1 FTE is 40 hours a week) 2 weeks in a row, making a busy business owner who additionally spent time developing products for his own private sole proprietorship. Calling myself a union sleeper with business & sales executive duties has funny connotations.

Behavior out of a sense of loyalty can follow emotions of bonding or it can damage potential relationships by blocking feelings that are not explored. Loyalty can add to love, parochial interests, and patriotism in a healthy manner. Today's interpersonal and economic climate of "what's in it for me" can cut off relations with negative or toxic people like the sick. For a gentler and kinder nation, families and close connections need to invest in Emotional Banking Units with the disabled as keepers.

Like a Supreme Court Justice saying, "I am my father's son," we each need to develop meaning from whoever is our father. A close bond can develop the younger person fully in current times, particularly at certain stages of development. A distant relationship emotionally and/or geographically can be intended by the father to generate a tough background some say is necessary for importance. A father that abandons his children or is of unknown parentage to them can lead the children to seek the world through less intense direction, and people will discover if the community has a heart.

A mother who's loved likes to be recognized with a visit, a call, or a card on Mother's Day, regardless if with a token gift and she does need to know she's appreciated every day. Acknowledging people to show they have a place in the world and they are not anonymous and unknown is real to them and the decent thing to do. Consumers of mental health often get what psychiatrists cite as negative symptoms, which make many consumers unable to visually notice someone else through their facial movements, tone of voice, in active body language or in remembering names.

Spirituality gives a feeling of oneness among people and is a wholesome force for the more complete self. It can help people feel someone is guiding them with a greater strength to make the right choices which may be difficult socially and biologically. For others faith and churches can be divisive influences if they are not appreciated.

Stalking someone for fun, profit or just to know is an illegal situation in states like California. The U.S. belief in freedom and privacy does not coincide with the small world of conspiracy and theft of a person's identity builders or stealing another person's known or potential positions in society. How can checking in from afar on a past relationship with a person, a troubled family, or forgotten client be ethically and warmly done to give distant support when someone might need to hear from somebody nice without bothering their stability?

We need to listen to people we don't normally listen to. The facetiously termed "flat stomach competence" is rating intelligence and ability on a person's sharp communication that is clear, with fit body language, and carrying a crisp image. FSC is not respecting people by listening to how valuable the content of the message is. For both sides of the channels of communication, how do you overcome barriers of not looking competent in appearance and behavior, when the person being judged is making a worthwhile contribution to the momentary interaction or in a larger context?

Getting active in an altruistic cause or a movement of ideals is a good way to interact and meet people or in finding freedom of mental expression. Non- and bi- partisan thinking created my formula in public policy successes by stating the self help movement fits conservative philosophy in responsibility and work ethic. This is combined with educating people that mental health is a government spending program that requires understanding of what people we have are to the general public, which is what liberals are like.

Psychiatrically disabled people are often pleasant company in social interactions, with just a question-mark to close observers about their level of independence. The standards war debate of the "that" era of the singles scene in the 80s and early 90s highlighted the fact that many people in bars and elsewhere were striving for dishonorable or immoral singles behavior, and were also leaving out squares and all men and women who weren't perky or witty enough for quick, ready fun.

Teaching mental health concepts and with some idea of a hopeful reality improves classroom student's emotional intelligence, life skills, and perhaps vocational outlook. Does classroom education on psychiatric disabilities affect the school's culture? Teachers, students, alumni, and professional counselors can tell us if mental disability instruction can assist the school's climate to be more positive and understanding or negative and less tolerant and encourage verbal harassment or worse.