humanity

Mental health is a fundamental right; the future of humanity depends on it.

Failure by Design
Every time he heard those sounds in the back of his head, only reminded him he wasn't yet dead. They say loser, they say wimp, they say everything that brings him closer to his own death. If he didn't ask for it then why do they pressure him on. On to the next level of insanity, the next level to never face anyone again.
By Magnar Arne4 years ago in Psyche
Religious conflict and Intergroup Theory
Abstract This paper examines various causes of religious conflict such as resources, the minimal group paradigm, and misinformation. Research has shown that the media plays an important role in the creation and development of attitudes and beliefs, especially in intergroup conflict (Paluck, 2009). Thus, it is important to alter the media rhetoric to help improve relations. Several resolutions to religious intergroup conflict are described. These resolutions are alteration of media rhetoric, promotion of interaction between groups, and a bottom-up targeted intervention related to altering the attitudes and behaviors of the individual. The interventions listed are applied to describe their potential at promoting positive social change.
By Cobe Wilson4 years ago in Psyche
IV.
Jermaine Lamarr Cole released his fifth studio album, KOD, appositely, on April 20th, 2018. The title, having three distinct meanings, reveals the work's thrust, the problem that inspired his conversations. Kids on Drugs, King Overdosed, Kill Our Demons. We are dying, he says, before we have lived.
By kp4 years ago in Psyche
III.
Bump? The young man apologizes, revealing his assumption that I’d accept any drug. He determined this, he says, by my relaxed sweats and Hawaiian button-up; lime-green GameBoy; Hokusai copy (not the great wave) hanging; Jose silver next to game leaves; and my confessed exploits with microdosing during this day’s regularly scheduled programming. I tell myself (hardly in earnest) that he is most likely correct and accept his offering. He says I am ‘the real,’ and I am left to decipher what this means from his earlier list of observations. I decide it must refer to people who are chronically depressed and filling pesky emotional voids with persistent substance abuse and tedious displays of appropriated interests. He rambles for some time before he tells me again that I’m as real as it gets, adding that this assessment includes people who don’t have social media profiles. I don’t tell him I don’t have social media profiles. He has lionized this misanthropic manic enough.
By kp4 years ago in Psyche
V.
Apple juice. VeggieTales. Grape juice. Olive fingertips. Saturday mornings. Visiting the library and reading stacks. Climbing trees. Scooby-Doo and the gang.
By kp4 years ago in Psyche
II.
I moved to Ypsilanti, Michigan, at twenty-four years of age and thought I had lept before. I had lived in Kalamazoo for a year while attempting to attend Western and moved into a trailer on my own in Big Rapids. Yes, a two-hour drive to my parent's house down to a 10-minute bike ride, but independence was maintained, nonetheless. So I thought. I had paid only $250 a month for rent and had only juggled the cost of one or two utilities. I had never tried to manage a forty-hour work week to afford rising rent costs or the monopolized prices of energy and internet while managing a full course load in college. Up to that point, I had only done one or the other at any given time. I moved to Ypsi and learned I was slightly behind on the curve. With only a few hundred dollars in my bank account, it didn’t take long for the eviction notices to start piling up. The final call to court prompted the mass sale of my personal belongings. Clothing, games, pills and weed, services, and a keyboard my parents paid six hundred dollars for. That money should have gone towards their mortgage, but they believed in the off-chance that I would learn how to play.
By kp4 years ago in Psyche
I.
When the staff at Timberwolf Lake greet you at the camp entrance, they choose you and one other person from your car. You, daughter of Eve, and a son of Adam, are helped into a harness that squeezes tightly around your waist and between your legs.
By kp4 years ago in Psyche
My Past Lives
“Why should I fear death?If I am, then death is not.If Death is, then I am not.Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?Long time men lay oppressed with slavish fear.Religious tyranny did domineer.At length the mighty one of Greece Began to assent the liberty of man.”Epicurius
By Emily Marie Concannon4 years ago in Psyche
How do I find acceptance (Within Myself)?
How do I find acceptance (Within Myself)? I sit here and wonder why I am forever dissatisfied. I want to roam free on Earth.
By Bonnie JS Eglin4 years ago in Psyche
When Will This Enddd?
Laying in bed at night, where it's still and quiet. I've put my phone down, and I stare up at my ceiling. My body ceases movement, but it seems as if my mind is running a marathon and my emotions are on a roller coaster.
By Felisha Danyelle4 years ago in Psyche
Meditation – The Right Way and The Wrong Way
It is fascinating to observe how the world is going and how people think, but it is also sad because there is so much self-created human misery. As my understanding of how the ego operates in our mind becomes more apparent, my perception of reality becomes sharper. When comparing ancient civilizations with our present ones, I see no progress in understanding our minds. They created an escapist world then, and we are doing the same thing by following them now with a bigger and better one with our advanced technology. Thus, as we become more out of touch with reality, one does not have to be a prophet to predict mental illness increasing in societies worldwide.
By Mal Mohanlal4 years ago in Psyche
This Too Shall Pass
Nothing stays the same and nothing lasts forever in the physical world. Life itself is a cyclical process, an ongoing progression of changes we refer to as evolution. Time marches on and space is infinite so everything is constantly shifting, both in spatial position and in linear time, from moment to moment. Everything is in perpetual motion, existing as energy on a quantum level.
By Lisa Pearlman4 years ago in Psyche