Unmet Mental Health Needs. Bacon, egg and Cheese Sandwiches

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I think it uncontroversial to suggest that Brains and Bodies are connected. We got the Vagus Nerve, a vestige of the primordial ooze that offers the professionals a chance to come up with expressions like "The Gut-Brain Axis" and go on to minutely explain why the Vagus Nerve is a source of so much unidentified and ill-defined stress. 

And yes we're talking about the structure of language as a means to usefully develop a Symbolic Order that permits the Professionals to communicate with the subconscious. We're also talking about an alien invasion of culturally homogenizing psychotherapists employed by corporate interests to rid our species of Unregistered Passions and replacing them with Cognitive Distortions about the centrality of washing machines, Selfies, beaches, bacon, egg and cheese sandwiches to a happy and fulfilled life.

Bobby does go on a bit, but he assures us that 'studies' have found that while the incidence of experiencing 'mental distress' is almost exactly the same throughout the spectrum, there are gaps in 'mental care utilization' between political party affiliation. Democrats and Independents are 'significantly more likely' to have engaged the services of a Mental Health Care Professional, than are the humorless and sexually frustrated Republicans who have 'substantially higher unmet healthcare needs.' Naturally Bobby is very thorough, he has examined trillions of words on the met and unmet mental health needs of the average US Citizen.

"Liberals," Bobby suggests, "who tend to be less inclined toward system justification and more critical of social and economic inequality, may recognize external factors (like political stress or systemic injustice) as contributing to their distress. This critical awareness may make them more willing to frame their feelings as a health issue requiring treatment."

So there you have it, the more liberal minded in our number should end their addiction to therapists as a substitute for bacon, egg and cheese sandwiches, they should allow their passions free rein, stop moaning about the debilitating affects of irony on happiness, find a unifying hat color, raise the banners and march.