Nurah Speaks

Most discussions on mental health seem to focus on how to improve our mental health, ways to heal, ways to cope and manage.  What I see often ignored is what contributes to the erosion of our mental health.  And frankly, normalized aspects of our own culture degrade the mental wellness of our people. If we take a careful inspection of our media, our families and our education, we find aspects of each that create anxiety, grief, fear, alienation and insecurity.  Couple this with the availability of degenerate food, drugs, alcohol and toxicity in our air and water, we must accept that there is more than a person’s singular traumatic experience that impact the mental welfare of our communities.   The saying goes, ‘That an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”  We should apply this idiom to our mental health.  So let us identify the causes of mental strain as we promote healing.  In a future episode I will talk about some of the preventative measures we can take to support our mental health. If you wo