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We Can Be Doing So Much Better On Mental Illness
A Book Review of We Can Do Better by David Goldbloom
Humane…Accessible…Brilliant! Mental illness is such a yawning, abysmal public issue. Whether it’s as pedestrian as trying to help suffering friends and family, to acting in the capacity of legislator, advocate, innovator, or full-fledged psychiatric professional, the battle seems hopelessly Sisyphean. I believed (until recently) it’s so intractable that to think our way out is analogous to jumping in the hole pulling the hole in after you.
“[I]f dignity and compassion are not persuasive enough, then let the money speak. A psychologically more sound citizenry measurably relieves our already overburdened Emergency Unit, and lifts everyone up economically.” — Derek London
In We Can Do Better, Dr. Goldbloom — a rockstar of the Canadian mental health industry — offers concrete, measurable, and compassionate reforms we can be implementing right now. We can do better, so much better, in raising the level of well-being in our society. The epidemic of mental illness is not only one health crisis among many — I mean, take your pick: heart disease, cancer, lung disease, stroke, diabetes, COVID-19, homelessness, etc…
