Article about Mental Health Service Booklets

I have read the booklets and leaflets you gave me, and the other booklets you allowed me to take from you. I don't want to be overly-critical nor bother you with my views on all of this, and I won't go into most of it all, but some of it relates to my late and beloved mum and her mis-diagnosis, mis-psychiatric-drug-treatment and refusal by the doctor, and basically these booklets only describe the symptoms of mental health problems, and not the real overall syndromes, nor the objective social and material reality and the causes and effects of all of this.

What's more they are labels of symptoms, which might be useful in a complete and accurate context and understanding, but they are also very simple, very abstract, text-book descriptions of mere symptoms and quite partial descriptions of both symptoms and syndromes, which do not correspond to objective social and material reality, internal psychological reality, nor the interaction and synthesis of the subjective psychological and objective reality of the two (as if there is no actual activity and interaction between all these things but total connectedness, merging, and absorption without any individuality as well).

Again, I won't annoy or bore you about all of this, but to give you just one very quick example, your booklets only describe psychosis in psychological and social terms as being delusional and losing touch with reality. Psychosis, actually has four aspects to it in reality, which are the personal, the social and volitional, the interpersonal, and the internal or psychological.

Firstly, there is much, much, more to psychosis than delusional losing touch with reality, as there can be depressive psychosis, and psychosis is also about an internal mental and emotional conflict, juxtaposition, and dis-order, between and where the unconscious mind (for want of a better word), negatively takes over and controls or dominates the conscious mind or thoughts, whilst the conscious mind alternately becomes unconscious in a way, as the unconscious becomes more unconscious.

Regarding and concerning the first of the four aspects of psychosis that I mentioned, personally and socially, it is to do with how these two aspects or things about psychosis interact, and part of the solutions perhaps along with some psychiatric medication, is to slot the personal thought-patterns and processes, into the person's actions, routine, pre-responses before their actions and their post-responses afterwards, and changing their situations and relatedness or relationships with others, all in certain ways, where there is a better connectedness and connection with the social, interpersonal, and where they are more in touch with social and objective material reality.

In isolation, as a separate thing, interpersonally, the term psychotic in the sense of so-called being out-of-touch with material and social reality, can simply mean and be the case, that the person has a different opinion, argument, view, vision, or much better grasp or different understanding of material and social reality than another person, a partner, or a so-called authority figure on all of this, who says they are mad or psychotic simply because they have a different or much better view, argument, opinion, and because they simply disagree with the other partner, so-called authority figure, or other person.

In terms of actual depressive psychosis, it is not the case really much at all that the person suffering from grief, sadness, and/or very negative or more realistic thoughts usually along with feelings of so-called depersonalisation, is at all out-of touch with reality - as was the case with my mum who committed suicide last year - but the reality of all of this on this issue and matter, is that in actual fact and reality, no one can really or appropriately and skilfully, care about, love, nor has real compassion for them, nor understands nor can relate to their mental, emotional, physical, social, and spiritual suffering in any real caring or altruistic way. Therefore, it is actually the case that society, the mental health services and some others, are often in actual fact and reality out-of-touch with them and their suffering and conditions psychologically, mentally and emotionally, socially, spiritually, and materially.

On a final point, a person can be out-of-touch socially and/or interpersonally with others, as in so-called personality disorders with inappropriate relatedness or relationship responses and behaviours - as others can also be these things in-turn toward them for social and cultural reasons of differences, or lack or equality, fairness, and integration - whilst this not usually necessarily mean, that the person being one-sidedly discriminated against and labelled in these ways, are out-of-touch socially with reality in an overall objective, social, and material sense, nor in terms of life-events, and to suggest otherwise, is again to very much to over-simplify, blur and merge categories, things, issues, personal, interpersonal, and social and material reality matters.