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Mental Health and Science

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92% feel mental health is as or more important than physical health for wellbeing, with 46% saying it is more important – according to the Wellcome Global Monitor.
— Read on wellcome.org/news/what-role-science-mental-health

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Science is a reflection of the condition of mental health.

The issue is in the word itself: mental. Of the mind. Science is at best and imprecise word that describes a series of meaningful practices. Meaning is inseparable mind, whereas science is easily separated from the mind, and so the question of the current state of science is really a question of the current state of mental health.

However, science being what it is now the impression that we’re finding out something about mental health through doing scientific studies. In general, we call the science of the mind or the science of mental health psychology, but it has cohorts such as psychiatry and neurology and such.

These studies give an information by which to assess mental health to the extend that their conclusion give further example of the state of mental health and not so much what is actually happening. Science proposes to be getting to the heart of what mental health is and so to offer better treatment, but as anyone who works in the field, knows, these treatments aren’t getting better. at times they do stumble across new ways of understanding itself, which is to say mental health science, which then help us to reassess what we’re dealing with, however. Another words, science is helping us, just as any other sort of information and knowledge that we are involved with looked at in a certain way, helps us with our mental health.

This is because mental health is the actual condition of knowledge known in reflection of itself.

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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.

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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.

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