When separation and microaggressions are legitimized and put into public policy and discourse, we become second class citizens and subhumans. This is oppression and bigotry systemically supported and then denied by almost everyone, including those most seriously affected. We come to believe these lies. ...
In an email group with mental health professionals someone said that they thought that it was difficult to communicate optimism if one is themselves pessimistic. This was in reference to folks who are labeled mentally ill... I can tell you right off the bat, transformational healing will not happen in such a setting. Because: It's not difficult but impossible to communicate hope if one is pessimistic. And this is the foundational problem with the mental health system and most mental health providers within that structure. Most do not know what is possible in terms of transformative healing and cannot help but perpetuate their pessimistic ignorance...it's not even their fault. It simply is what is. (and I might add we are all guilty of this at one time or another because it's part of being human...none of us know the full extent of what is possible in any given situation especially for another human being)
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