Protecting Mental Health

If you are a well-informed and kind Australian citizen, you are likely to feel ashamed of Australia's political mess. 

The corruption and cruelty associated with Australian politics will most likely have caused you considerable mental distress already. 

You are even likely to be experiencing distress at present.

You are likely to be angry with most Australian citizens for foolishly voting for despicable people.

You are also likely to feel embarrassed for the people of other countries with corrupt governments.

 

Most countries have recently been and/or are currently run by blatantly corrupt, hypocritical despots and deluded megalomaniacs.  That is a diplomatic fact.

Widespread societal despair, in every society, is a matter of fact too, as is the inadequacy of every mental health system.

What, then, is a good mental health system, and how can it quite easily be developed?

One of the most urgent tasks, in any difficult political situation, is to ensure narcissists, psychopaths and Machiavellian bullies are prevented from gaining and/or maintaining political power.

That should not be too difficult to achieve with the appropriate psychological testing of all political candidates.

The adequate provision of quality citizen journalism, and the adequate provision of quality journalism more generally, will also help to ensure politicians are properly held to account for their actions.

Quality journalism will also help to ensure the voting public can easily become acquainted with the truth.

Of course, the political narcissists, psychopaths and Machiavellian bullies known to the public through various media will try to prevent that from happening, as will those acting without proper public scrutiny.

Encouraging citizens to practice good governance themselves, particularly at the local level, and especially in their personal and professional lives, is how good politics can thrive. 

 

If citizens can govern themselves better, through consistent self-discipline and the regular use of research skills, much can be achieved for the greater good.

That is how mental health is best protected.

In practice, however, even the most self-disciplined, well-informed, suitably kind citizens face many dilemmas and other sources of confusion.  They are likely to be forced to confront much rudeness, and even much deception, possibly even on a daily basis.

Many young people show no interest whatsoever in investing in reasonableness, including the reasonableness of well-informed kindness and thoughtful reciprocity.  They have been indoctrinated, through education systems, the mass media, advertising, and especially through popular culture, into being bigoted, competitive, greedy and gullible.

The same applies to poorly educated individuals of any age, and bullies, and unintelligent adults of various ages.

Of course, unintelligent people may have cognitive impairments preventing them from being adequately reasonable.

Young people may not yet have reached the more mature stages of intellectual, emotional and moral development.

And any person, at any time, of any age, may experience a mental illness or a brain injury or a neurological disease or an interpersonal difficulty or severe pain or overwhelming grief.

Addressing mental health problems appropriately begins with the protection of mental health, across the entire lifespan.  That begins with the development and maintenance of well-informed, kind, organisational cultures rather than aggressively competitive ones.

The culture associated with the Civility Party of Australia is obviously well informed and kind.  That is probably why the party is of no interest to the mass media.

Better communities are co-operative, not competitive.  They do not encourage stress-inducing rivalries.  They encourage mutual helpfulness and respect for peacefulness.  They express respect for differences in temperament, particularly differences associated with introversion and extroversion.

Mental health is easier to protect with a well-informed and pleasant feeling of certainty.

All policies of the Civility Party of Australia are fairly and firmly based on the lived experienced of real people, not theoretical hunches or political whims.

Unwanted changes in people's lives cause distress.

All other unwanted uncertainties cause distress.

Unwanted distractions cause distress.

Unwanted communication causes distress.

Incompatibility causes distress.

Conflicting expectations cause distress.

By providing certainty through civility, the Civility Party of Australia places integrity and empathy in the service of the public interest.

By properly understanding distress, the Civility Party of Australia acknowledges that much distress, all over the world, is caused by political corruption.

By offering priority membership possibilities, the Civility Party of Australia encourages prospective members to make serious commitments towards protecting mental health as a constant priority. 

By training pleasantly accomplished candidates, the Civility Party of Australia raises the standard of public life: locally, nationally and internationally.

By presenting voting options appropriately, the Civility Party of Australia educates the public about the political system and the problems within it.

By exploring possibilities for the future with adequate evidence and insight, the advanced members of the Civility Party of Australia ensure all party policies are reasonable and all the party's leadership practitioners are adequately enlightened.

By developing purposeful policies, the Civility Party of Australia is able to give mental health the attention it deserves.

 

By encouraging practical approaches to providing support, protecting mental health becomes much easier.

By peacefully and politely placing political putridness on the compost heap of history, the Civility Party of Australia improves democracy considerably.

By preparing appropriately with a proper plan, the Civility Party of Australia has already begun the educational process through which to protect mental health and address any associated problems.

By demonstrating public accountability, the Civility Party of Australia is showing real leadership.

By preventing corruption, the Civility Party of Australia is protecting mental health in the best possible way.

By seeking perfectly suitable supporters, the candidates of the Civility Party of Australia prevent themselves from being associated with unsuitable persons and inappropriate organisations.

If you are seeking to be a supporter, a trainee member, an advanced member and even a candidate on behalf of the Civility Party of Australia, how do you already protect your own mental health, and the mental health of other people?