The focus of the psychiatric's chair

Subject: The focus of the psychiatric's chair.

How do we square the circle. More and more people are claiming help from the government coffers whilst the economy is in tatters.
No one wants to acknowledge the fact that we can't afford to balance the books
properly without a fresh look at how we tax people to share the financial load, across the classes, rich and poor, a reaffirmation of the concept of paying, when you can to pay, for those genuinely unable to afford to live. Of accepting our own responsibility for our financial commitments and if necessary moderating those commitments to what we can afford.
When I was young and growing up, it was a far less affluent time, the country was economically broke, having fought a World War and had to repay the money it borrowed from the Americans to do it.  We witnessed in 1945 a different type of political bravery from the one experienced during the war from Mr Winston Churchill, this time by the unexpected new post war Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.

He propelled a new magisterial social revolution in the post war social contract which included,  amongst other things, the formulation of the NHS. and a massive home building program of social housing for ordinary people. 

It reflected a political philosophy which was inclusive and not exclusive. It was about different priorities and a new understanding that "ordinary people count".
In those days the ordinary man and woman in the street hadn't heard of "rights" but they had an intimate knowledge of belonging to a community. They recognised the implicit commonality between human beings and hadn't, at that stage been  encouraged to forget their social contract in favour of the self centred, striving, individualistic life style propagated by Mrs Thatcher.
The old was thrown out virtually wholesale and in its place a hybrid of the American philosophy of winners and losers. The spectra of a society in which people cared for each other was replaced by one where people who didn't ask who lived next door.
The inter social responsibility of caring as much as we could for the people around us was replaced by the competition to express our financial success in the way we consumed and it's most visible influence was and still is the car on our doorstep. It became a contest to outdo our neighbour not to care for them, to exclude them from our calculations and become mired in self-interest. The individual "rights" was the result of allowing ourselves to become isolated and having to ask a rapidly disappearing government to take the place of things which previously society had handled.  The Government have continued to distance themselves from their people and the malaise of ill health, often brought on by stress, especially mental health, has produced a plethora of notifiable mental disturbances each the brain child of the psychiatric industry .The sufferers now on first name terms with their affliction, often mentally defined,  which mother's of children who they find hard to control can now be categorised.  Mothers of limited education can reel off, chapter and verse on this esoteric subject, mental health. It's as if they seek some sort of  fame to go along with their categorisation along with their ability to pronounce long, virtually unpronounceable Latin terms as if having having a child with so and so, brought them closer to some sort reconciliation with their day to day toil.
Whilst it does not disguise the personal trauma but it's often a trauma which would have been handled so much better by being included within a caring society rather than the individuality and focus of the psychiatric chair.