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When we think deeply, something happens that is out of context. Belief is in context. What does that say about mental health?

The nature of mental health concerns two aspects:

• what reaches real people
• the truth of the reaching

The beliefs that informs us to mental health are not necessary, just as knowing the truth of the matter is not required.. Because truth is subjectivly mediated, the meaningful reality that is occurring for individual people is not required to reflect itself into the expressed knowledge of the individual in order for the person to be mentally healthy.

However, due to the conditions of history, at least of the last 10o years or so, when such truth is come upon, people typically do not recognize it, but justifiably become nervous about ideological and political power plays.

They say “who are you to tell me what the truth is?”

or

“Truth is relative; you can only know your truth.”

Nonetheless, these statements would have no meaning if they were not supposed to be expressing some truth of the matter.

The cyclical nature of a relative reality constituent of subjective viewpoints poses an ontological argument that functions outside of a kind of belief that one chooses.

your health is not your belief

In the real modern circle, mental health takes the form of subjective opinions. Mental health becomes a point arising amidst willpower, choice, and conditions that the person has no control over. For regular people to live the life they live, most people do not care nor have time to think about things. In fact, I could even say that they do not generally think about their own experience because they believe that either they do not need to, or they are doing it already.

So this is modern reality. There is no fault in people believing that they think, and thinking out of their beliefs about reality.

Nonetheless, just as statements of subjective opinion and the ontological relativity they garner must necessarily have some sort of leg in truth, even as the subjective opinions might be really false or at least arguable, they are not required to think in order to be mentally healthy.

When this knowledge is come across by most people, again, most will automatically question the authority of such a statement, or will allow for the author’s subjective opinions.

The irony cannot be overestimated.

Two Beliefs of mental health

Due to the condition of knowledge having no logically semantic escape from the limits posed above, only two kinds of belief occur.

The truth of mental health arises between these two semantic operations:

• Ontological arguments.
  • This is the main kind of modern belief. It is a sort of ‘believing one’s own script’ but functions in a manner that people are usually unable to choose out of.
  • These beliefs close knowledge in on itself, and are the main sort of issue that therapy and counseling works with.
  • This kind of belief is evident when one is asked if they could choose not to believe what they believe is true.
  • The usual answer is “no, but it is because it makes the most sense” or some sort of similar disclaimer, like, because that has been their experience (subjectivity) or because “that is the way it is” (ontology).
  • Those two answers rely upon each other to support reality as it is.
    • To suggest that everyone is like this, like: we all can only have our experience and opinions based on them, but we should try to be open minded and consider things that challenge our ideas of things.
    • It is an ontological belief which uses such arguments to support the essential nature of the belief. It is not relative, for, if that were able to be admitted, then the supposed ‘personal opinion of reality’ would have no meaning.
    • Ontological arguments support reality. This is not a subjective opinion or a relative statement. It is the only conclusion that can be had if we choose not to make another ontological argument that about what we believe.
    • For mental health, any sort of ‘reasonable’ idea can exist.
      • it could be cognitive, spiritual, religious, somatic, semantic, wellness, sickness, predisposition, neurology, neuro-chemistry, and so on.
      • The veracity of any of these ontological arguments are weighed in the social milieu.

• Currency
  • Belief of this type appears as openings to possibility:
    • for example:
    • “I believe I will have coffee instead of tea this morning.”
    • “I believe the sun will rise tomorrow morning.”
  • These kinds of belief say nothing about what is supposed to be true, but speaks from the nature of believing itself, the ability that the notion of ‘belief’ enacts and embodies.

The difference between these kinds of belief is found by orientation on things. It might seem that it is a body problem, social problem, brain problem, and so on, but none of this arises without knowing. An experience does not mean anything in particular necessarily, in fact, it does not even have to mean anything. Nonetheless, there is something about what we know that is contributing to the mental problem as we experience it. Orientation speaks to knowing knowledge known.

Neither is more correct, and argument about what one is supposed to do now that such epistemological operations are revealed merely resorts to the idea that the first manner of believing is correct.

Mental health is the dynamic between these types of belief. The actuality of the knowing person in a known world (phenomenology), where the key is knowledge itself, and not the nature of the actor that is the knower.

Phenomenology is one part of the truth of things and this now noticed brings into focus what we mean and what we are dealing with in mental health.

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