Yes please continue making videos.. your works are amazing!

He has ready started the second trilogy - check out Map of Days :)

It's common to know something and still not know its full relevance. I believe this is the case of the ineffective mental health care profession. When the Virginia Tech massacre occurred everyone was aware that the shooter had been in the mental health care system. But no one questioned why he did not receive help for his boatload full problems and why he did not see the system as a place to receive assistance. Everyone just assumed we had a useless mental health care system and has zero expectations for it. We were told the shooter at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut had a history of mental illness. But no one questions just what occurred or do not occur with his treatment. Apparently everyone accepts we have a useless, broken mental health care system that is not even worth discussing. I don't believe it should be the case. We do not have a mental health care system with a reputation for helping. The 14,000 murders and 30,000 suicides each year is one example. Another example is the fact that the average person can likely name 4 people they personally know that had seen a therapist for very good period of time but are still walking around with the same issues. 2 out of 3 suicide victims never had any mental health care contact. The reason likely being is that our entire culture does not see the system as a place for help. I had a lot of personal experience with the mental health system. I have been down the road and I'm doing the only responsible thing by saying, “The bridge is out!” I have to honestly say it appears they do not have the intent or ability to help anybody with just about anything. I could easily fill three pages with just a brief mention of all the absurdities I have encountered. Ask 20 therapists to define their job. Most would likely have a hard time answering. You could easily get 20 different answers and if you ask their current and former clients if that's what they were getting I am sure they would answer no. I've seen it's consistently very obvious they are at a complete loss or have a strong mental block to be of any use. The reason people get ill is because of a lack of humanity in their environment. They go to a hospital where there is no humanity at all. Everyone gets worse. Good for business. Every therapist is told to be a non-person in the office. There is no motivation or ability for a non-person to help a person. The nightmare continues for the client. Another word for a non person therapist would be sociopath. In the profession some are behaving like one and many really are sociopaths. No desire to keep them out. The profession can always look back just 20 years and admit they did a lot of things all wrong. The profession should not think they have it correct now. The mental health care profession is focused on the flow of money and not helping people. The people in the system and system itself is ignorant, ill and corrupt. I've seen this firsthand more times than I can count. It's the reason behind why our entire culture does not see the mental health care profession as a place where troubled individuals can become healthy individuals. People in the know are aware that the system can do much more harm than good in many circumstances. After the Sandy Hook school shootings I heard talk of spending more money on the mental health care system. Throwing money at a broken system is not the answer. I once had a therapist 'whose eyes quickly swelled up' as he briefly mentioned he saw that therapists that go into the field of helping troubled children are very often extremely disturbed themselves. Do we want to give more funding to that? The system is so far from functioning the only hope for repair would be from current outsiders with totally new approaches. Or we will just receive more of the same. It's an inconvenient truth. I'm here to help and not harm self or anyone. Unlike the system. If you want to save lives re-post this. Ask the basic questions. We can all be better qualified than the professionals. Because they are just a comedy freak show. Drop in with a hidden camera and it will look like SNL.

@@timgoes Yes, I agree with much of the reasoning behind this and even the facts until the last few paragraphs. It's so difficult for a new patient to get a therapist to begin with because each one cultivates a regular income flow with their clients. They'll never do any actual healing work with them because that's bad for business. Never challenge clients psychologically, never ask the right questions that get them thinking, never get them working on actual therapudic practices and habits outside the scheduled 50 minutes. Real therapy takes place on the client's Own time when they read the right books, look up the right articles, practice holistic care, etc. The real revolution must come through cultural expectations of what to expect from therapy. Nothing will change any other way. When I look for a new therapist, I interview them to make sure we'll be a good fit. After all, I'm paying them for a service, which makes me their employer, or contractor. If they don't pass the interview, they don't get the job. Every single therapist has been shocked and surprised by this. Am I really going to trust my true vulnerability and deepest secrets with any stranger, who then charged ME a few hundred dollars for less than an hour? Yes it's broken, and only broken people will care. There's still a lot we can do that ripples outward and onward forever.

Wow. That exceeded my expectations immensely. You're really inspiring Mr. Riggs. Thanks for creating. Your work motivates me to do mine.

He is

Aerasus thanks! I didn't know if he was

Aerasus OMG HE IS????

Wolf Girl OMG OMG OMG OMG YEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS PLZ! !!!!

Ummmm... But the series ended..... What would it be about?

It's common to know something and still not know its full relevance. I believe this is the case of the ineffective mental health care profession. When the Virginia Tech massacre occurred everyone was aware that the shooter had been in the mental health care system. But no one questioned why he did not receive help for his boatload full problems and why he did not see the system as a place to receive assistance. Everyone just assumed we had a useless mental health care system and has zero expectations for it. We were told the shooter at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut had a history of mental illness. But no one questions just what occurred or do not occur with his treatment. Apparently everyone accepts we have a useless, broken mental health care system that is not even worth discussing. I don't believe it should be the case. We do not have a mental health care system with a reputation for helping. The 14,000 murders and 30,000 suicides each year is one example. Another example is the fact that the average person can likely name 4 people they personally know that had seen a therapist for very good period of time but are still walking around with the same issues. 2 out of 3 suicide victims never had any mental health care contact. The reason likely being is that our entire culture does not see the system as a place for help. I had a lot of personal experience with the mental health system. I have been down the road and I'm doing the only responsible thing by saying, “The bridge is out!” I have to honestly say it appears they do not have the intent or ability to help anybody with just about anything. I could easily fill three pages with just a brief mention of all the absurdities I have encountered. Ask 20 therapists to define their job. Most would likely have a hard time answering. You could easily get 20 different answers and if you ask their current and former clients if that's what they were getting I am sure they would answer no. I've seen it's consistently very obvious they are at a complete loss or have a strong mental block to be of any use. The reason people get ill is because of a lack of humanity in their environment. They go to a hospital where there is no humanity at all. Everyone gets worse. Good for business. Every therapist is told to be a non-person in the office. There is no motivation or ability for a non-person to help a person. The nightmare continues for the client. Another word for a non person therapist would be sociopath. In the profession some are behaving like one and many really are sociopaths. No desire to keep them out. The profession can always look back just 20 years and admit they did a lot of things all wrong. The profession should not think they have it correct now. The mental health care profession is focused on the flow of money and not helping people. The people in the system and system itself is ignorant, ill and corrupt. I've seen this firsthand more times than I can count. It's the reason behind why our entire culture does not see the mental health care profession as a place where troubled individuals can become healthy individuals. People in the know are aware that the system can do much more harm than good in many circumstances. After the Sandy Hook school shootings I heard talk of spending more money on the mental health care system. Throwing money at a broken system is not the answer. I once had a therapist 'whose eyes quickly swelled up' as he briefly mentioned he saw that therapists that go into the field of helping troubled children are very often extremely disturbed themselves. Do we want to give more funding to that? The system is so far from functioning the only hope for repair would be from current outsiders with totally new approaches. Or we will just receive more of the same. It's an inconvenient truth. I'm here to help and not harm self or anyone. Unlike the system. If you want to save lives re-post this. Ask the basic questions. We can all be better qualified than the professionals. Because they are just a comedy freak show. Drop in with a hidden camera and it will look like SNL.

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