Mental illness is still one of the most misunderstood illnesses in our society today. Fear of mental illness and people with mental illness still breeds ignorance, stigma and discrimination. A lot of states in the richest county in the world (USA) have severely cut back on services for the mentally ill, as they are considered to be a burden on society. Many states social services will quickly treat alcohol and drug related illnesses. However, they hesitate to treat mental illness, because there is no quick cure. It is a lifetime recovery journey.
Many psychiatric hospitals across the nation are being closed and patients are being transported by police or ambulance many, many miles from home to receive care. Many sufferers of mental illness have been released from the hospital with nowhere to go, but the streets. The homeless across our country represent the growing neglect of our United States Citizens with mental illness. As a society we are not moving forward in the treatment of mental illness, instead we are hoping that these people and their illness will simply vanish. The United States as a whole are allowing the police to be on the front line and our jails and prisons are full of the mentally ill.
No one sets out to become mentally ill and when it happens one desperately needs family, friends and the community to be as supportive as possible. This means more education for the patient, family, community and public at large. This means better tools in treatment. Certainly this means more human dignity.
Many people think that the mentally ill brought this upon themselves by alcohol or drug use and abuse. This is a false perception. Many suffers of mental illness have no addiction to alcohol or drugs. Those who do, usual self-medicate to escape the day mares and nightmares associated with their illness. Most mental illness is a chemical imbalance in the brain and many issues are exasperated by childhood traumas, etc. We need more compassion as a society.
Theodocia wrote Footprints In My Life Journey because she deals daily with mental illness and she desires to help others who suffer with Bi-Polar, Depressive Disorders and Other Mental Illnesses to better track their daily moods, medicines, etc. This workbook is a not meant as a medical guide or instructions for anyone with Bi-Polar, Depressive Disorders and other Mental Illness. It is a version of her daily diary in her lifetime recovery program with mental illness. She gives permission after the purchase of the workbook, for the user to save the bonus day at the end to copy and continue to use in a notebook as the reader needs. This workbook is a tool to accomplish daily tracking with as little or as much journaling as one desires. She gives enough examples and choices to check off each day so that little journaling is necessary. Her desire is that the workbook will be used as a tool to track daily moods, goals, successes, regressions and track medicines and their side effects. She desires that the results of this daily tracking workbook will be shared on a regular basis with one's mental health providers. Click on the title to read reviews.