Humans have proved that through knowledge and movement, All things are malleable. If your mind can bend, so can the universe. Anything is possible, even nothing. THe mind is a trick. Tricky tricky mind... Believe in your self, your energy, believe and imagine what you could do.. and guess what? What you imagine can come true.

Right on Meeko. Right on. I'm a huge Star Wars fan... huge. Thanks all, you just reminded me where my center is.

You cant move to the UK You are needed here to make a change, you have the right information, the right mind... more hands are needed to change this place. :) But if you do go, have fun and make sure to make things better.
We gotta try our best to make our own life's circumstances, better .. change it to be peace.
If you have a war going on inside your emotions, your mental, your physical, the point of that illness is to find your better half and make a difference. When someone is blind.. other senses start to heighten, the blind person becomes better at things that others who can "see" cannot ever experience. If there is a mental issue that seems to collide with the majorities views of sane, then other aspects of your stronger half of the mind need to be used... they need to be find.. understood, and then find those strengths and make a change.. help others understand what great gifts they accquire, when one fragment of the body "seems" displaced.. then there is something that makes up for it. We are all facets on a diamond, we must Learn what beautiful facet we portray in this grand picture of the universe.
You have strengths.. those must be the focus. Anyone can talk about their loses... we can weep and talk about it forever..
but that cant help you change.. unless you face your fears. Dont worry what others think... they to are at war.. spiritually and in life.

Those who experience such anger towards something... will achieve the strength, to push that energy towards the best intellectual and non-violent way to bring a positive change in our environment.

We must change.. to see change. And to be Strong, to hold strong.. in our change.

I agree it is not as bad for the mentally ill in other countries. I am from Australia and have a brother who has bipolar disorder. His medical treatment is free and he is on benefits from the government. He is also provided with cheap housing and the the public trustee here have control of his money (so he is paying his bills and not having the money to buy drugs) He is also on a court order so that if he does not attend an appointment with his doctors, or is not taking is medication, the police go and get him and take him to it. That is the way it is supposed to work anyway! It often doesn't because of the strain on our resources.

The problem being here is that they are trying to make our health care system like yours. You get a tax concession if you have private health insurance, which to me is not worth it. As you pay all this money for the insurance and they don't make the benefit of having it that great, you still have to pay money even when you have health insurance. But anyway it is free to visit a doctor in our country if the Doctor does not charge over the medicare amount.

As for our mental health system. We basically have to go through hell to get my brother put in hospital as the hospitals at the moment are always full as there is not enough money and resources for the mentally ill. My mother a couple of years ago complained to our Minister of Health about one of the hospitals, of the many, that my brother had been placed in. The minister actually did something about it as my mum took her through the hospital showing her all the problems, can you believe that the staff did not have a security camera??? Anyway at least thats one problem out of the way.

I should not complain about our health system as yours seems to be a lot worse than ours.

I do often worry about how many people are out there like my brother and not being treated properly. As the drug Ice or Meth is becoming more popular here we are seeing an increase in people becoming mentally ill through drug use.

Anyway we have a new government now so hopefully our health care system will get back to the way it should be.

The US being such a rich country should really have a look at how other countries health services operate. Even if just for the mentally ill. It would cut down the crime rate, the homeless, and make people feel safer walking the streets!