Covid: Like It Never Happened
Remember the windshield repair company that ran TV commercials that told you that if you used them to replace your cracked windshield the experience would be, "like it never happened"?
That's how I see counseling professionals and professional organizations treating the past 5 years; "Covid: like it never happened!"
Why Are We Not Talking About Covid Issues?
Here's why I think this is happening.
1. Academia directing our discipline decided 20 years ago to hang their hats on a social agenda rather than science-based platform. Now they not only don't want to give up their positions they're going to have great difficulty ever doing so. How do you tell your membership that what you've been preaching full-throat in recent years is wrong now? Talking about it would be an admission that their position statements of the recent past have been very harmful. Not going to happen.
2. Mass denial. More than 70% of the public took 1 or more jabs. For there to be denial there first has to be bad news to deny. The bottom-line is that no one wants to think that what they've done to themselves might be harmful. They don't want to believe they were lied to.
By extension that means they don't want to talk about the published material connecting the surplus of deaths, disabilities, physical and mental harm. Direct and irrefutable links between the jabs and horrifying physical and mental outcomes have been established.
3. To complicate #2, our licensee base is not immune to the denial. It is logical to assume that 70% or more of licensees took the jab. You can't talk with a client about physical issues potentially caused by the jabs that may be affecting them mentally, if the counselor isn't willing to face the issue for themselves.
4. The internal pressure we all feel to just "get back to normal" is overwhelming and a much more agreeable path to follow than thinking about the alternatives.
5. You might be wondering, where's BHEC's voice? Well, it's "not their job" to be concerned with public medical issues or take social stance positions. Not in their charter. Their job is to implement state law as it applies to the licensing of mental health counselors.
Covid: Like It Never Happened
If we can't count on the mental health profession and all of our professional organizations to admit what happened, to face it no matter how ugly it gets and deal with it personally so we can then help our clients then we're in for a very long recovery road.
But people are dying. People are becoming permanently disabled, irreparably harmed both physically and in their mental presentation. They're walking into your offices right now! They won't announce that they are Covid injured because most of them are in denial, the rest of them don't know. It's up to us to ferret out these issues and their possible connections if we truly want to help them. But we have to first put on our oxygen mask before we can help our clients. We were lied to and people are dying.
What are you going to do about it?
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Phillip's background has blessed him with a variety of interests, skills, and tools to get things done. He spent 25 years in the printing and marketing industry before meeting Kathleen Mills in 2015. They quickly figured out that they made a pretty good business team and, owing to Kathleen's story, embarked upon a mission that would see the creation of PracticeMentors.us and eventually the Association for Mental Health Professionals.
