When it comes to mental health, our science is at an infantile or at best adolescent level of development. Next month, it brings us a new bible of pathology — the DSM-V, which will tell us again how many ways we can be sick, yet with no guide as to what mental health actually is or how it might be strengthened. That, it appears, must become a common effort — crowdsourced, if you will. One of the founding documents of our nation insists that government allow us the “unalienable right” to seek happiness; but no state or institution can actually deliver it.
Work without a vision is slavery, Vision without work is a pipe dream, But vision with work is the hope of the world.