Mental Health Sunday (12 Oct 2025)
Per my commitment to do something for USCCB mental health Sunday this year, I decided what I will offer is my own testimonial and share it with two people. And that will be it, at least for this year :). And here it goes. When something tragic happens in society, we as bystanders say it's a mental health thing. "We need more mental health." We don't necessarily blame a person or a social milieu but an illness. Yet when we experience something in our own lives, we blame ourselves and our morals, and we get mad when others ask or show concern for our mental health. There's an incoherence here. And I would like to help elucidate that with my own experiences with mental health in my life and from what I've seen. Maybe we should stop calling it mental health and just start calling it health. The mental part is what we don't like. To be told we are weak when others are merely just trying to assure us we are human. And really, health is a much more apt term at l...