Reflections From a Murky Pond

Personally, I have exactly zero doubts that America has a mental health crisis. However, I sincerely believe that the nature of that crisis is different from what the mainstream media consumers think it is. I don’t believe that the crisis isn’t a lack of mental health care; I think it’s poor, cheap, and dangerously poorly considered mental health “care.”

Cue the Democrat outrage! RFK Jr. recently said essentially the same thing, and we all know that will set off these filth.

Our mental health system is predicated almost solely upon prescribing various psychotropic pharmaceuticals, many of which have serious negative side effects in statistically small numbers of people. But, with approximately 41 million people on these drugs, a statistically small number of them – 1/10,000, for example – is still 4100 people at any given time who have become a greater risk to themselves and/or others solely or primarily from taking those medications.

Yeah, I firmly believe that our mental health crisis is overdiagnosis of certain “mental disorders,” getting them on serious medications, and providing no real care beyond that. And, all that while claiming that not enough people are being “treated.”

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The tale of the Hanging Stove is a wonderful story about three intelligent, well-educated men coping with the rigors of the wilderness.

An engineer, a psychologist, and a theologian were hunting in the wilderness of northern Canada.  Suddenly, the temperature dropped dramatically and a blizzard was upon them.

Fortunately for them, they came across an isolated cabin, far removed from any town. The three hunters had heard that the locals in the area were quite hospitable, so they knocked on the door to ask permission to shelter from the storm. No one answered their knocks, but they discovered the cabin was unlocked, so they entered.

It was a simple place — two rooms with a minimum of furniture and household equipment.  Nothing was unusual about the cabin except the stove.  It was large, pot-bellied, and made of cast-iron.  What was strange about it was its location: it was suspended in midair by wires attached to the ceiling beams.

“Fascinating,” opined the psychologist. “It is obvious that this lonely trapper, isolated from humanity, has elevated this stove so that he can curl up under it and vicariously experience a return to the womb.”

“Nonsense!” scoffed the engineer. “The man is practicing the laws of thermodynamics.  By elevating his stove, he has discovered a way to distribute heat more evenly throughout the cabin.”

“With all due respect,” interrupted the theologian, “I’m sure that hanging his stove from the ceiling has religious meaning. Fire LIFTED UP has been a religious symbol for centuries.”

The three debated the point for several hours without resolving the issue.

When the trapper finally returned, they immediately asked him why he had hung his heavy pot-bellied stove from the ceiling.

His answer was simple……… “Had plenty of wire, but not much stove pipe.”

Education is wonderful thing, but it often colors the perceptions of what passes for the intelligentsia and these elitists end up ignoring simple common sense and pragmatism, occasionally to hilarious effect.

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