Wednesday, October 28, 2009

A Mental Health-Care Service for the Chronically Homeless.

Diamonds in the Rough.


In major cities, the social problems surrounding chronically homeless people with mental illness have engendered many programs and well intentioned discussions. Yet the programs offered or mandated to psychologically disturbed and homeless people are rarely comprehensive enough to ensure such a person can become a healthy and productive citizen.

In the real world, for the people at the bottom to become healthy and productive they must first find effective relief for health issues like depression, addiction, brain fog or chronic fatigue, and secondly, they must learn how to reenter society by developing a fulfilling life.

No small tasks. But the simple truth is that unless these two problems are solved for each individual there can be no lasting solution for the “homeless issue” other than relocation.

Currently, if there is any mental health help for problematic homeless people it relies on pharmaceutical drugs and/or talk therapy. In actual practice this maintenance approach solves few, if any, of the client’s real problems.

With a more comprehensive approach the mental disabilities of many homeless people could be diminished or eliminated, resulting at the least in less problematic behavior.

Many of the mental health problems that make a person too unstable to care for themselves, such as unproductive beliefs, over toxicity, chronic malnutrition and trauma based psychological damage, could be treated and relieved.

Some of the unhealthy citizens that we see every day could be rejoined with a rewarding life if more effective healing and guidance could be offered, saving more than a lot of money.

But the methods to achieve real health and a fulfilling community life are seemingly misunderstood, and certainly not comprehensibly applied in the homeless community. So in a real sense little has been done and the problems and costs of the mentally ill and chronically homeless individual continue to perplex us.

The following is a framework for strengthening the foundations of mental health and guiding an individual toward a healthy and productive life. Within this framework are five components of a person’s general health and mental health in particular, from the physical to the social. Each of these levels must be cleaned, balanced, optimized and enlivened to enable a healthy person to pursue a successful life.

A given individual may not have problems with all of these aspects and yet if all are in working order there will be no “infrastructure” to support pathology. By attending to the health of these five levels, chronic disabilities can often be eliminated and a gratifying life can be more easily restored.

This program describes a process involving therapeutic techniques and practices that an individual might go through in order to revive the five levels of mental health.

Some of these therapies are traditional common sense and some have only recently been developed, virtually unknown to the general public. To understand the effectiveness of this program it is important to understand the different therapeutic approaches and how they work together. Following the links that are provided will help you to be acquainted with therapies that you might not have heard of before.

The mentally ill homeless are the focus here because they are the neediest and as such they could most dramatically show the effectiveness of this program. If chronically homeless people could find fulfilling lives then the drama of the events will attract media capital which can then be leveraged to expand the program.

To the extent that we find individual successes, the leadership and citizens of the city would see improvement in a high profile issue and millions of taxpayer dollars could be reallocated.

We believe that a significant percentage of the mentally ill will find full relief from their symptoms and a fulfilling life in the community after working with this program. When a mentally disabled person becomes healthy and reenters society in a productive life, we will all benefit.

The following is a description of our foundational principles and philosophy.


The Five Levels of Mental Health.

1. Physical.
2. Bio-chemical.
3. Electromagnetic.
4. Conceptual.
5. The World.

1. Physical.

Unhealthy people have improper physical substances lodged in the gut and throughout their bodies such as; heavy metals, toxic chemicals, parasites, excess acids, impacted feces and bacterial plumes of yeast and fungus.

The first step in healing is to remove these inappropriate physical substances.

This variety of unsuitable organic and inorganic materiel can cause distress, dysfunction and disease by depleting nutrients, generating poisons, blocking pathways and denigrating bio systems, thereby lowering the quality of our mental health.

For optimal mental health these physical impediments must be removed.

A quality program of colon cleansing is the beginning of the elimination process enabling the body burden of toxic chemicals and heavy metals to pass through.

Mercury and many other mental illness causing neuro-toxins are stored throughout the body in teeth, fat cells and organ tissue. These poisons can be removed with a good detoxification program. Drinking large amounts of alkalized, micro-clustered, antioxidant water provides an effective foundation for this process by balancing the PH of the body, rehydrating the cells and reducing free radical damage.

Parasites play a greater role in affecting our physical and mental health than one might assume. Parasites consume nutrients and excrete toxic waste; they can also restrict digestive and eliminative process and even influence body sensations like hunger. Parasites of all kinds must of course be eliminated from the gut and body tissue.

All this and more can be taken out with herbs, super foods, psyllium fiber, chelating agents, vegetable juice or raw food fasting and a far infra-red sauna. A body, clean to the cellular level, is the foundation of a well functioning mind.

2. Bio-chemical.
With unhealthy substance gone, the body’s cellular structures must be repaired, replaced and jump started with nutritional supplementation and proper care.

Many people have become chronically malnourished after decades of a diet that is not nutritionally sufficient. A good place to start rebuilding the body for the more serious person with the appropriate support, is a blood chemical analysis test and a 30 day raw food/supplement/fiber diet to begin repairing the body at the cellular level. Of course, proper nutrition, exercise, sunshine, stress release, and fresh air are all essential parts of this biochemical process.

Healing the body heals the mind.

By enhancing and balancing the biochemical systems of the body through proper diet and supplemental nutrition the health systems can be quickly strengthened. Omega 3 fats, vitamin D and B among other supplements can have an immediate positive mental effect for those who are deficient.

By alleviating or eliminating the effects of food allergies, nutrient deficiencies, brain inflammation, PH imbalance, chronic infection and hormonal imbalances the body and brain can be healed and mental health can be restored.

3. Electromagnetic.
When the body is clean and healthy, the effects of traumatic experience can be dislodged and dissipated by balancing electromagnetic brain-wave and heart-wave patterns.

Trauma, including difficult birth, injury and psychological shock, can permanently unbalance the electromagnetic brain and heart wave patterns associated with thought and emotion.

These unbalanced brain and heart waves can house or cause a dysfunctional mental and emotional process leading to psychological problems and antisocial coping mechanisms.

There are a few methods for optimizing one’s brain and heart waves into “whole brain thinking” and “emotional coherence.” The oldest brain balancing technique is drumming or meditation and the oldest emotional coherence technique is practiced forgiveness. Recently other methods have been developed.

For example; “Binaural entrainment” is a way of holding a brain in a generalized state of brainwave balance once a day until a more balanced pattern settles in naturally. Another very effective way to balance brainwaves isolates the brain into an EEG based self stimulation loop, allowing the brain to find its own harmony.

Portable biofeedback devices can help entrain ones heart rhythms to be stable and coherent allowing for a balanced emotional state on a consistent basis.

These and other techniques can be used to clear the neurological and bio electrical residue of trauma, freeing the patient from old and dysfunctional electromagnetic patterns of thought and emotion.

When the electromagnetic waves of brain and heart are in an optimized state, psychological pathology finds no place to reside.

4. Conceptual.
All of us find limitations in the beliefs, concepts and expectations of ourselves that are assumed and then held in our subconscious mind. To be mentally healthy the self image must be examined and reestablished to provide a more functional vehicle for one’s persona and psyche.

Advanced forms of NLP/Hypnosis can have profound results by replacing non supportive beliefs and unhealthy self concepts, with images of confident motivation, positive expectation and a healthy outlook.

5. The World.
To be mentally healthy one must interact with people and the world in mutually beneficial ways.

To create a relationship with the world the major talents of the individual must first be discovered. With the development of one’s talents a person can effectively find fulfillment.

Through the practice of goal setting these talents must then be refined and developed until they may be offered in exchange for a rewarding participation with people and the world. By this participation one finds one’s "place" and so can generate the stability needed for friendship, love, family and community.


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How Does This Program Actually Work?

A pilot program is to be staffed by a team of four to eight health practitioners, a director and an assistant. The team of practitioners will include a functional medicine naturopath (levels 1 and 2), a licensed Brain State Conditioner & Heartmath practitioner (3), an NLP/hypnosis life coach (4), and qualified re-entry caseworkers (5).

Because the program requires some modicum of a stable home life including cooking, bathing and sleeping facilities we will create a clinic within or working closely with an established homeless shelter. The initial two or three month process begins when an eligible person from among the residents in a homeless shelter signs up for, or is mandated to the program.

Part 1.
The healee starts out drinking a gallon per day of alkalized, micro-clustered, antioxidant water and meets with the staff and a life coach who will be explaining, anchoring and guiding the individual through the process.

As the week begins the client ramps up to a different diet and routine. Day by day they consume a lot of antioxidant water, raw food based meals and extra psylium fiber, detoxifying and anti-parasitic herbs and multiple supplements to clean and rebuild.

With exercise, access to a daily far infra-red sauna, sunshine, socializing and plenty of good sleep the detoxification and re-nutrient [levels 1 and 2] process begins. After only the first week the healee will have very noticeable effects, pleasant and unpleasant such as a significantly more grounded sense of well being and feeling very tired from the release of toxins.

After a few weeks the person begins brain balancing sessions in the afternoon while relaxing in a chair, dissipating the affect of previous traumas and allowing the brain waves to resettle. It’s a pleasant enough experience while viewing a screen displaying the energy of the brain as it defragments and optimizes itself. Most patients will need 10 to 20, one and a half hour sessions over two or three weeks.

During a few of the sessions, while the brain is finding its own harmony by interacting with the EEG machine the skilled NLP hypnosis life coach works to emphasize the client’s personal strengths and bolster their self image.

With some hypnosis sessions in the day and guided visualization tapes in the evening, effective encouragement for releasing addictions, rebuilding self esteem, a commitment to personal excellence and a desire for accomplishment can be instilled.

During these weeks the client will also be practicing with a heart rhythm biofeedback device that reflects a state or degree of “emotional coherence.”

With the guidance of that device a person can learn to quickly regain a sense of peace by using “forgiveness” breathing techniques, eventually developing a much greater control over their emotional state. The training of this ability helps a person regain mental and emotional stability.

The ideal setting during the first few months will be within a residential community facility because it is important that the person under going rapid transformation be living in a stable situation with access to the capable and understanding response of the staff.

After two or three months the client will be mostly detoxified and many of their malnourished cells and systems will have been rebuilt with nutrients. Much of the neurological effects of past trauma have dissipated and a capable future vision has been set with brain training and life coaching.

These past months have been a comprehensive and compressed, fully therapeutic experience.

True, profound and long-term healing occurs when the structures that support pathology are eliminated. This can be done by detoxifying the body, nourishing and catalyzing healthy cellular activity, optimizing and harmonizing the heart and brain’s electromagnetic state and reestablishing a compelling self image.

Spurred with hypnosis and monetary incentives the person will soon get more comfortable with plant based food, exercise, micro water and the desire for goal accomplishing behavior. From then on, the process of maintaining a healthy body and mind can continue as permanent lifestyle changes.

Part 2.
With this new lifestyle as an ongoing base for constructive activity the individual can begin in the second or third month to identify and develop the talents and skills that they can offer to the world.

The second half of the program is focused on reentry and based on the premise that each individual is born with innate talents. These talents are what must be offered to the world in exchange for a healthy participation in community life. The inherent talents of each individual must be found and developed to the point of implementation in the real world.

This part of the program requires skilled caseworkers to implement individually tailored testing and evaluation, advocacy and interviewing abilities, and enrollment in the appropriate schooling or vocational training facilities. This reintegration process will require, of course, the ever greater involvement of the people, services and institutions of the community.

This part also requires skilled life coaches to help a person develop the leadership qualities required to create a successful life. In a program like this, the art, science and determined practice of a goal setting technique become a major part of a successful outcome.

To enhance this goal setting process small monetary incentives for each accomplishment and stage completed can also be awarded.

The full and successful completion of this program will bring a high percentage of applicants from dysfunctional mentally ill homelessness and problematic situations to a healthy and productive life within the wider community.

If a significant percentage of the most problematic citizens in this regard could be returned to some semblance of a productive status, the city would save a very large sum of money every year. The wider benefits to the community of such an outcome would be expressed in our quality of life and the value of our society.



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A Few examples of relevant Links;

http://www.lifeionizers.com/ Alkalized, micro clustered, antioxidant water. Balance PH, re hydrate, repair cells….fountain of youth. The basis of a good detox program. Tell 'em I sent you.

Http://www.Drnatura.com/ Colon clean/detoxify. Check their photo gallery after lunch. + “Detox or Die” book by Dr. Sherry Rodgers.

http://www.theultramindsolution.com/ “Heal your body, heal your mind.” Everything you need to bio chemically fix your broken brain.

http://www.Drmercola.com the source for sensible naturopathic health practices.

http://www.brainstatetech.com/ Brain State Conditioning.

http://heartmath.com And interesting biofeedback device for optimizing ones emotional health by training the practitioner to stay in a state of optimum emotional balance.

http://www.centerpointe.com/ These are high quality Binaural beat therapy CDs used for brainwave entrainment. An hour a day for six months alleviates most dysfunction.

http://www.immrama.org/ Binaural beat therapy CD.

http://www.stopsmokinginstantly.com Hypnosis + NLP. 96% success with addictions. Useful implications for life coaching and obtaining better life habits and goals.

http://www.emofree.com Energy psychology, emotional acupuncture. This site deals with a technique called EFT, the emotional freedom technique, but there are many other variations of the methodology. The effects are not consistent enough for this program but having a skilled practitioner on hand would help.

http://www.landmarkeducation.com/ An intensive 3 day life coaching reorientation to life. This one is for the high powered but something like it could be scaled for the more serious reorienting we will need.

http://permanentpeace.org/ Through powerful group Sidhi meditative techniques this organization has demonstrated the ability to affect the mental health of whole neighborhoods at a distance. Put them in the attic? Too funky for this program but the implications…



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Disclaimer- Nothing about what has been stated in this article should be construed to mean that anything mentioned here is a cure or treatment for any disease. If you have a medical condition, please consult your doctor for medical advice.

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