Loss of life from self harm is the #10 cause of death in America.

There exists a stigma in the minds of Western Civilization, and a bit of confusion, as to whether or not mental illness is a physical disease,  an emotional disease, a behavioral disorder, or a result of spiritual weakness. When members of our families are ill with known physical disease, we empathize with them and care for them by looking for the best medical doctors and specialists that we can find. However, when we are faced with mentally ill relatives or friends, our first response is typically to ask them to fix themselves or we sometimes even leave them to face their ills on their own when they require professional medical attention.

Is it right to tell mental health patients that if they have more self-control, they will be okay; or if they give themselves to God, then everything will work out; that their ills have to do with something that they’re doing wrong in their lives? The answer is a resounding NO! We get upset when everything we have to do in our own busy lives is put on hold because someone we love has to be watched in order that they do not harm themselves; it is seen as more of an inconvenience with someone who does not want to face their own responsibilities than a service to someone who is sick. We have to see this in a different light, a chemical one that has to do with brain fluids, neurons, life stressors, trauma and individual predispositions for coping.

We sometimes assume that people are kidding or acting in order to get attention, to not receive full punishment for a crime or because they’re overly sensitive.  There are even a few that feel that people drive themselves insane by refusing to face reality and deal with life issues just like everybody else (yeah right).

There has to be, but I think the true reasons are multifold, including biological and esoteric reasons. Perhaps the Western mental health crisis gained momentum as a result of a numerology quirk, with the number of zeros in the years following 2000 depleting energy in the bearers of those birthdays and in those alive during those years.  Maybe it even has to do with many more having the number ‘two’ in their birthdays or living in the energy of the number. Two is an intuitive number, but with no formal training on how to deal with the added intuition, it could make you (and your family) a bit uncertain. Perhaps Uranus’ passage through Pisces caused us to question our vision and spirituality, pushing us into an identity crisis. Maybe it has to do with chemtrails; the New Age awakening;  or derives from biological and genetic differences in the types of humans that are evolving in this day and time due to ozone changes. Maybe it is political or economic. Whatever the reason(s), asteroid Chiron still feels it necessary to enter our heads as the wounded healer and to address the ills in our brains.