For a time those that suffered the anguish of separation and isolation were condemned as mentally ill and with a condition that defined a way of life.  This is no longer true.  In a country painfully seeing its way through World War III there was a great deal of confusion, broken families, losing loved ones to death, and alienation.  It must be said that alienation was somehow abridged by the ability of Americans to suffer together.

We have overcome, and in the light of a new day, the mental illness of this generation is passing.  We have learned not to reject people that are sick and suffering.  Insisting on the label of Mental llness is a way of rejecting idividuals that demand, in the need of understanding and belonging, that we take stock of ourselves and our lives in that we can mend our broken bridges.

If we are to need psychologists it is only because we have accepted that the pain of loneliness is everyone’s wound and that together we can heal it.

We do not need and army of Psychiatrists to establish a new order in society.  As we fall like reeds in the wind the psychiatrists collect us like a adromeda strain until we must struggle to be any kind of individual at all.

Christ taught us the perscription for loneliness in the Beatitudes.  He sat down on a small mountain and taught his Apostles and the crowd that with Christ, himself, as our center we will be able to live aas a happy nation.

A token acknowledgement of a Christian Society we have given up on quickly becomes a token economy.  Our values, having been forgotten cannot inform and inspire us as to the worth of things in our lives.  We take and give just what we will without any treasury or treasure.  This is a county whose would be citizens are mentally ill.

Our minds, supported by our conscience are meant to be inspired and to inspire the truth.  We do not hide our light under a bushel as Christ taught us.  With courage, patience and love we must face tomorrow dispite the pain of the present day.  We are meant to help one another do this.  Saint John wrote, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God.”  We can shatter the truly frigid cold that surrounds us when we are lost with the words
God gives us to reach out to one another when we are suffering.  We must never surrender to the pagan day of Mental Illness.