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Humanizing Mental Health

Humanizing Mental Health

JATA (Jeremy Alcorn and Trenton Akers)

Treat the person... not the illness.

You can only ever hit the target you are aiming at. Society’s mental health “target” has been mental illness. Unfortunately that target is getting bigger and bigger as more people experience mental illness.

We believe it is time to change the target. It is time we humanize mental health. It is time we bring new understanding that a disease focus will only bring more disease.

It is time to focus our target on wellness.

Categories: Health

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In this episode Trent, Amy and Jeremy use the therapeutic story "The Magic Kitchen" This story is adapted by Richard Schwartz and helps in understanding how we work with the parts of ourselves to find a sense of internal cohesion. In particular this story is a metaphor for how we connect inward to become healthy in order to be able to connect outward in romantic relationships. It is the old mental health adage that one must be able to have a healthy, loving relationship with themself to be able to have a healthy, loving relationship with others.

We integrate the ideas and themes brought up in the story and discuss how this relates to mental health.