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Mental wellness Needs met.

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@simplephysiological  People's perceptions of mental health illnesses. Once apon time, the conception of a person with mental health problems, was someone in a straight jacket and a sliver bowl over there head getting electronic shocks as treatment.  Centuries ago, being gay was considered a Mental Health condition and, anyone who came out as gay, was issued for treatment. Fast forward centuries and what perceptions of Mental Health have changed?  After spending some time in a, 'Mental Health Hospital' I could see and felt very little had changed around the stigma. Nor the treatment. Okay so, some treatments need medication and some people what that kind of resolution. However, while in the hospital I come to realise, Mental Health patients are treated all the same and so are the methods of treatment. I also saw that some people including myself, needed Mental wellness, not medication. I needed a clean space, it is Okay living in your own shit. However, when y...