Facts about mental illness

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those Jaws of thinking which are inherent in the mind itself. There fore freedom of thought does not lead to anarchy and confusion but to harmony, for all facts exist in the system of nature, and all truth is in harmony with itself. When we Masons contend for the right of the free intellect we are contending for the right and healthful use of the intellect, the normal use of it; not for mere caprice.—THE BUILDER. FACTS ABOUT MENTAL ILLNESS The patients going to mental hospitals just this year for the first time will lose about $1,750,000,000 that they would have earned during the time they arc sick. One out of every two patients going to a medical doctor is suf fering from an illness which is tied up with mental or emotional dis orders. The same is true for one out of three patients who go to general hospitals. For each patient being treated for mental illness, less than $4.00 per year is being spent on research to find new ways of prevention and treatment. Since 1934 Scottish Rite has sponsored more than 50 separate projects at research centers across the United States and Canada in a coordinated effort to help humanity’s fight against Schizophrenia, the chief mental crippier. Today this Scottish Rite program is acknowledged by leaders in the field as one of the greatest contribu tions in the battle for better mental health. The Supreme Council Benevolent Foundation, supported by thousands of Scottish Rite Masdns, provides the financing for this vital work. Mohamet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled. Mohamet called the hill to come to him, again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, “If the hill will not come to Mohamet, Mohamet will go to the hill.** — Francis Bacon THE CABLETOW

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1958

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