People for most of their lives are living out of environments with no idea at all of how they impact
their wellbeing. Whether it is environments at home, work or in specific places such as doctors
surgeries, hospitals all the time messages are fed back to us about the dynamics between ourselves
and what lies around us.
In my latest interview on the Role of Occupational Therapy I stress the importance of not ignoring
people's holistic needs by focusing on just the apparent area of damage. We are a society consumed
with putting a plaster over the area of hurt and walking away. No attempt to say where is this coming
from; is it an environmental cause such as water supply, geopathic, is it self esteem, self sabotage and
doing something specific that addresses the cause rather than the outcome.
Our worlds have slowed down to the point that we see from one screen the world but meanwhile the
world around us is being ignored and that includes relating to each other. One of the sources of poor
mental health that I have come across has been the social isolation, the alienation of people from one
another and a lack of social cohesion where people feel alien in an alien world.
The Health Chiefs dont want to address such issues as everything now has a solution with a tablet;
yes pharmaceuticals have taken over our life; a pill to be happy, a pill to forget, a pill to comatose and
a pill to change perception.
A Pill to take us away from being human; with feelings, responsibilities, responses and awareness.
Occupational Therapy is one of the few approaches maybe the only one that uses its own resources to
problem solve in a way that is not harmful to the client but has endless creative possibilities to
address every individual situation they meet.
If you want to find out more feel at liberty to contact me for further information-provided in the interview above.
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