Investing in community is investing in our emotional health
The headline is a quote from this article:
Reclaiming Community and Connection for Mental Health
I don’t think you can make a simpler, yet stronger, statement. Community and connection save lives. They are part of our human identity, and without them, our mental and physical health suffers.
If we, as a society, want to improve mental health outcomes, we need to create a culture as connected as possible.
That’s not the society we’ve been building. You can’t “other” whole groups of people and claim to be building community. You can’t post constant hate and outrage online and claim to be connecting. You can’t build community when people are forced to work 60-80 hours per week or two or three jobs to afford rent. We need a commitment to connecting people and building community with everyone. Our current path will only harm all of us.
