When Something Is More Than A Fad

 Recently, I came to this new realization.....that mental illness is more or less....a fad.

Yes, you turn on the 6 AM news and your local news folks are interviewing someone who you can readily define as having a mental problem, but everyone seems to act like it's all normal.  

You drive to work, and there's some radio interview....same deal....person with mental issues, but the moderator seems to place it in a 'it's ok' package.

You get to work, and the HR person comes around to chat with you, with some training requirement that seems to be about you needing to accept mental illness in the company as a 'norm'.

Your kid comes home from school....chatting about his teacher.  From what he describes....the teacher seems mentally ill.  Week after week, you get more data to fill in the blanks.  The teacher needs mental help badly.

You go to church on Sunday, and the sermon from the minister seems to be about some mental illness, and you needing to 'forgive' the person or honor their wishes.  You sit there for a while and just kinda remember that Jesus and Moses never had to deal with Paranoid Schizophrenics. 

If we all sat there and thought about it....we must know a minimum of ten people each, who ought to be in a mental clinic, or housed in a permanent facility.