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| ... and seeking professional help doesn't mean running off to whatever quasi-spiritual healing trend in vogue. |
There are usually so many yes-men
around people in leadership positions that their perceptions can, not only take
them in the wrong direction, but, they can also bring along with them entire
groups of people no matter how rational the original intention. No one I’ve
ever met is free of their own delusions and positions of leadership can feed
these in such ways as to cause serious, social and physical/spiritual personal harm.
Even those of
us who prefer to take the back-seat to leadership can succumb to the same
misapprehensions of ourselves because we tend to chose friends who are not
inclined to criticize us. This is one of the chief reasons to seek professional
help… even when, or, perhaps, especially when… I think there is nothing wrong
with me. After all, I wouldn’t go to a friend to remedy a serious disease such as cancer; no matter how
much that friend loves and cares for me. Compassion and caring are helpful but to neglect professional help is foolish and sometimes fatal, as in the case of Steve Jobs.
Friends and prayer can
support and encourage me but some things fall into the venue of someone who has
training, treats these health issues daily and has seen the symptoms thousands
of times in their practice: i.e., depression is the most difficult one for us
to go to a professional to treat because we think we can take care of
ourselves. It has become responsible for far too many
suicides because we think we don’t need help, can chin-up through it, or are afraid of the stigma we
believe is around treatment by a mental health specialist.
And seeking professional help doesn't mean running off to be treated by whatever quasi-spiritual or pharmaceutical healing trend in vogue (vitamin therapies are the best example). I have seen too many in Southern California who call themselves healers by the laying on of hands, passing a crystal or waving burning sage around the room and chasing out malevolent spirits or some such oogah-boogah crap: go to a friggin' doctor and get help!
And seeking professional help doesn't mean running off to be treated by whatever quasi-spiritual or pharmaceutical healing trend in vogue (vitamin therapies are the best example). I have seen too many in Southern California who call themselves healers by the laying on of hands, passing a crystal or waving burning sage around the room and chasing out malevolent spirits or some such oogah-boogah crap: go to a friggin' doctor and get help!
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