DURING these difficult times, words of encouragement from leaders and experts are important factors when attempting to navigate the obvious difficulties associated with covid-19.
For those experiencing mental difficulties and anxieties, it's even more important that they receive words of hope for the future.
Recent predictions from senior UK psychiatrists have done little or nothing to lift spirits or give hope dealing with mental troubles.
In fact, they are more likely to have deflated anyone who’s been listening to them.
Dr Adrian James, the new President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, has continued painting a bleak picture that was started by his predecessor.
He has pointed to an ‘inevitable’ rise in mental illness due to recent restrictions.
His outlook does nothing to give those in need a lift when they need it most.
It’s therefore important to be informed of what psychiatrists have to offer for those who end up on the receiving end of their ‘treatments,’ voluntarily or involuntarily.
There are mind-altering psychiatric drugs that chemically mask individual problems but which never resolve them.
They also have the potential of causing other more serious physical illnesses.
If more people were to express hope for the future and perhaps do something unconditionally to help their fellow man, there is the possibility that morale would go up, that personal productivity would increase, and where optimism would replace the psychiatric doom and gloom.
Brian Daniels, by email
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