Why This Form Of Support Is Needed
The present mental health system offers no real options, most particularly, what is provided in our psychiatric wards is for many inadequate, inhumane and detrimental to their emotional well-being; an alternative is desperately needed.
There is an awful lot of pressure from government and society at large on people experiencing mental health difficulties, especially those that are out of work. ' Get a job it will help you feel better' is such a common comment at the moment yet it is encouraged with coercion and a determination to bash an individually shaped peg into a square hole, rather than empathetic support. As well as supporting those in emotional crisis The Root And Branch Project aims to provide stepping stones back into everyday society, stepping stones shaped to individual need, yet also stepping stones for society to help it open its arms wider in the way in which it accepts, perceives and supports mental health issues. I believe that people diagnosed bipolar and schizophrenic are simply emotionally sensitive people, yet this is often viewed as a weakness that is not 'normal', a weakness that needs to be overcome rather than a strength to be nurtured and accepted. Society needs people who are sensitive to the injustices and lack of care and compassion we are surrounded by in the modern 'rat race', otherwise it will be blind to its own flaws.
There is an awful lot of pressure from government and society at large on people experiencing mental health difficulties, especially those that are out of work. ' Get a job it will help you feel better' is such a common comment at the moment yet it is encouraged with coercion and a determination to bash an individually shaped peg into a square hole, rather than empathetic support. As well as supporting those in emotional crisis The Root And Branch Project aims to provide stepping stones back into everyday society, stepping stones shaped to individual need, yet also stepping stones for society to help it open its arms wider in the way in which it accepts, perceives and supports mental health issues. I believe that people diagnosed bipolar and schizophrenic are simply emotionally sensitive people, yet this is often viewed as a weakness that is not 'normal', a weakness that needs to be overcome rather than a strength to be nurtured and accepted. Society needs people who are sensitive to the injustices and lack of care and compassion we are surrounded by in the modern 'rat race', otherwise it will be blind to its own flaws.