Mental Health Philosophy: You are mattering

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Counseling, Mental Health, Psychology, Psychotherapy

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June 8, 2024

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The Veritable Counsel has become Mental Health Philosophy.

Welcome.

Appealing to innate intelligence, the solution to mental issues are found in one’s Self.

This Other name of on’e Self, the activity of intelligence that is one’s existing person, is called philosophy.

Whatever you might think and do by it, you are establishing and maintaining philosophy.

So it is that here I mostly will not offer people quick ideas of how to be more mental healthy. At times I will though because it can be helpful.

Mental health philosophy is the category by which all things mental health arise necessarily, and the process by which the movement of awareness is coupled with the intentional activity of doing things in reality, and the elaboration and discussion of such involvement.

It is not so much “the philosophy of mental health” because whatever a philosophy of mental health holds or asserts is described, explained or otherwise is accounted for by mental health philosophy. This is not therefore a “philosophy of…” anything, but the involvement in a particular way of knowing and being by which such “philosophy of…” gains its bearing.

We are able to address psychology due to mental health. Psychology defines mental issue, the issue that mental health philosophy deals with.

More to come !

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A note on how I use AI. I write everything on this blog myself: the ideas, the arguments, the words. I do use AI, but as an editor, not a co-author. It helps me with grammar, formatting, and structure. That use is recent: AI has been part of my process only for roughly the past year’s worth of posts. Everything older was written without it, because there was nothing like it to use. What I have found is that AI most often misinterprets what I write philosophically, so its suggestions are usually wrong, and a good deal of my attention and editing goes into sculpting each post until it reflects the ideas correctly. The ideas are never AI’s.

For transparency, I keep a Word document of my original writing and the full exchanges, back and forth with the AI, that produced each post. If anyone is interested in how a piece came together, that record is available.

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Essays in mental health philosophy—less “tips,” more why things work (or don’t). I look at the first principles under therapy, psychiatry, psychology, and everyday life, and occasionally share notes from papers and books-in-progress.

This space stands alongside—not inside—my counseling practice. If you’re seeking therapy in Colorado, there’s a link in the footer.

About the author

Lance Kair, LPC, blends philosophy, mindfulness, and counseling to help clients find agency, meaning, fulfillment, and healing through deep understanding, self-awareness, and compassionate therapeutic collaboration.