I was watching BBC News yesterday when I caught a news in brief about the latest report by the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, which recommends that mental health should be taught as part of the school curriculum.

Well, duh, I could’ve told them that. I figured that out last year after just a few weeks into my 6-month contract working as admin support for a mental health day unit.

Anyway, muchos kudos to the Sainsbury Centre for releasing this report and getting some good press for mental health, and hopefully some reforms to the schools curriculum.

I think there’s still too much emphasis on physical health in the modern world. It’s there, it’s solid, we can see it change and do things - the physical. Subtler realms are often laughed at or disregarded because they’re harder to perceive. Doesn’t mean they’re not there though. I can’t exactly ‘perceive’ germs with the naked eye, but someone proved they existed and now everyone takes that information as being correct.

If I recall rightly, the meticulous reports and diaries that Florence Nightingale made when treating soldiers in the Crimean War proved that good sanitation and basic hygiene stopped many soldiers from dying. Eventually, germs, bacteria, and other such nasties not visible to the naked eye were discovered. It had been these which had been helping many of the soldiers to their deaths.

Personally, I look forward to a day when everyone is aware of maintaining their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health. I just feel they’re all interlinked and one impacts on the other.

Ok, my serious moment is now over. If anyone is feeling this is all just too cerebral for them, email me, and I’ll send you some dick jokes so you can get back into your comfort zone, ‘kay?

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