The road to mental Health

The road to mental health is often bumpy and full of potholes, but with work and dedication attitudes and a determination to get at the cause of illness, will, in the long run show results. As with tangible things, things that can be seen and felt, intangibles like thoughts and ideas, can be made more wholesome with right attitudes and right living.


That is easy to say, but it will take a lifetime to complete. And all own will have to work with is what was alloted to them at birth. That is why early childhood experiences and gentle guiding helps get those first steps on a firm foundation. A child learns by seeing and mimicking what they see their parents do, so parents, in order to get those little one on a firmer foundation, learn how to be good parents.

Love your children and see that they learn there is a God that loves them and then when they are old enough, watch how they begin to start on their journeys. They will be different from yours, but they are necessary. You can help by being understanding and by letting them know how much you love them. Whatever you do, instill into their little minds that life's road is bumpy, but it is all for a purpose.

Mental health as a first priority

It's always better to look on the positive side of any issue, and what better way to think of the mind. Is it sick or is it well. Most often is is a combination of the two. Hopefully mental health will be above the half way mark at sixty or seventy rather than the other way around.

Although mental illness is not to be ignored and called something else, it is best to use the healthy part of one's thinking to directly influence the negative, or the mentally ill part. While it is true, one can be negative and out of sorts, depressed and not necessarily a pleasant person to be around, and still not be classified as mentally ill, but then neither can they be said to be mentally healthy. Therefore on any given day, one or the other usually dominates.

The purpose of this switch around of focus from mental illness to mental health on this blog is a choice I feel I must make. It is wider in scope and will allow both situations to be aired, talked about, and will generally fit in with my own mind frame. And it will get closer to what I really want to do with this blog. And what is that? To get people to looking at their good mental coping skills first and then to use that positive approach to deal with their lesser, often denied and hidden areas of brain functioning that they prefer not to admit having.

Where to start? Why not with the National Institute of Mental Health.

Creativity and mental illness: How does it relate?

Creativity, creating something new, is nothing more than a way certain people react to their surroundings. This is their way of making sense out of their disturbing influences, and as such is healthy. It can be defined as a method of coping and trying to understand the misunderstood.

Poetry, art, music, sculpting, acting, and most other endeavors can be elevated, and often are, by applying the principles and practices of art to them. Another way of saying that is to say that nearly every undertaking, cooking, sewing, gardening, can be elevated to the status of art by one specially gifted in the venture, and at the same time, in another person remain simply a necessity.

I've long thought that each person has an art sense about them, all they need to do is to find it. It is that something that elevates a person above and beyond the necessities of the day, waking up, eating breakfast, going to work. Creativity needs that too, but it needs that certain something that can only be supplied by those who are tuned to its specifics.

All creation begins with God. He created us in His image, and to the extent that we recognize the source of our creative energy,is usually what separates the simply doing to pass time, from the original work of art. To deny a superior being in our lives is to compare a doll, a copy, with a real baby!