Mental health - some people seem to think it was only discovered yesterday so, ergo, the myths are all true
(let's toss scientific fact out of the mix).
Having an issue with a lecturer who thinks some learning disorders do not exist.
Apparently he knows better than the millions of scientists, doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists and the bloke down the street.
This is teaching our future leaders to disregard medical diagnosis' children will struggle with in the future.
FB is not a happy camper but it is in hand.
Did you know Oz was the leading country of alcohol-related deaths for umpteen years?
Cos the stingy Govt didn't want to sprinkle vitamins in the flour like 100s and 1000s.
Serious.
The nut houses ...sorry, state-owned and run
Lunatic Asylums were filled to the brim with alcohol-related mentally unwell soaks, majority of them being unwell for the simple reason that they were not getting any vitamin B while guzzling grog, scoffing rubbish food and throwing pies down their gullets while on a bender.
Of course, other countries had taken heed of the
scientific facts that adding vitamin B to flour ensured that not only the socio-economically challenged
(that's poor people to you and I) got the relevant vitamins needed to keep their brains chugging over but those gargling grog on their way to the grave could replace what vitamins the alcohol was leeching from their bodies.
But did Oz listen?
Noooooooooooooooo.
Don't be silly!
Urban myths are
much more colourful to buy into, let the media write up reports of those dreadful drunkards sipping metho and white spirits into death on park benches, let the Salvos put the fear of beer into the youngsters but don't
ever let the scientists get their facts printed to the masses so that the govt might actually have to follow the commonsense of other countries.
Until the early 1960s we could stand up
Proud! to have the leading cause of alcohol-related deaths in the whole world and then, suddenly, govt ministers were lining up to sprinkle the magic vitamin B into packets of flour, loaves of bread and kiddies teething rusks everywhere.
For a number of years in the 1990s Australia was again a world leader, this time in youth suicide; something they didn't often trumpet from the rooftops, but then it suddenly changed.
Single vehicle accidents were suddenly 'accidents', farming accidents with guns, tractors, etc, were 'accidents' and, thus, the statistics were re-written and Oz could slough off the mantle of youth suicide without ever addressing the causes that may have been mental illness, identification as gay/lesbian, bullying, etc.
And, so we find that little has changed in the intervening 40-odd years as regards attitudes towards scientific fact for medical conditions with ignorance, urban myth and loud redneck opinion ruling the way in which children will experience their schooling and formative years.
Good on ya, Oz.
