By Frosty Wooldridge
9-8-26

Is it any wonder that millions of Americans suffer from mental health issues? Let’s face it—no other society in the world speeds along life’s tracks at Warp Factor “Too Much to Handle.”

One network reporting on the “hung jury” for Lindsay Clancy added that 61,000,000 (million) Americans suffer from mental illness. Another 15,000,000 suffer severe mental illness. That’s one in five adults. How do we deal with such stunning numbers of people suffering mentally-emotionally-spiritually every day?

Key Mental Health Statistics

• Adults: According to the National Institute of Mental Health, over 60 million adults experience mental illness. This includes mild, moderate, and severe conditions.
• Serious Mental Illness (SMI): About 1 in 20 adults experience a serious mental illness that severely limits major life activities.
• Youth: About 1 in 7 youth aged 6 to 17 experience a mental health disorder each year.
• Treatment Gap: Roughly half of U.S. adults with a mental illness receive treatment, leaving millions without professional care.
• Breakdown of specific conditions like anxiety or depression.

Several thousand young people, below age 30, commit suicide annually. Others buy guns to shoot people in schools and on the streets of our cities. Ultimately, they shoot themselves after their deadly rampages.

Then, you see a case where a young mother of three children, seemingly normal, and operating with her children and smiling husband—smothers all three of her children.

During Lindsay Clancy’s trial, prosecutors exposed that she took a boat-load of anti-depressants, and chemicals with names that start with X’s, Y’s, Z’s—and there’s no way to pronounce them.

On TV every night, chemical companies pitch chemicals for ailments that have never been heard of before in the history of the world. Yet, if you suffer something, that pill will save you, return you to health, and make your life perfect once again. The caveat to each pill, they announce, is that it could cause you a heart attack, nausea, high blood pressure, don’t take if you’re pregnant, bleeding in your stomach, and constipation along with headaches.

But right after announcing the bad items, the product goes back to smiling actors who benefited from taking all that chemical crap.

When you think of all the chemicals in our foods, all the GMO’s, all the dyes, all the artificial sugars like “high fructose corn syrup”, and all the sprays like Roundup with glyphosates that we eat—it’s small wonder that we all aren’t half-crazy in our minds.

Along with that, companies pitch everything that goes fast, faster, and fastest. If you don’t own the latest 10 G I-Phone, you’re left in the Stone Age. If you’re not influencing 10 million people, you’re not worth much. If your Facebook page doesn’t feature 100,000 friends, you’re friendless in an unfriendly world. You don’t have to grocery shop because a computer will do it for you, and a robot will deliver your stores.

While we’re at it, after church on Sunday, my friends and I ate at “Mad Greens” in Lakewood, Colorado. The teen girl that served us, featured horrible tattoos on her arms…skeleton heads, spears through hearts, and a dragon frying someone. Incredibly negative energy locked onto her body for life! But underneath her chin, on her neck, a huge wingspan of a dragon. Un-Godly ugly! It will mark her for the rest of her life in any conversation, any social situation, and any sense of normalcy. Maybe a tattoo on your arm provides some kind of mark that makes you feel good, but marking your entire body up may be yet another form of mental illness in America. Just my opinion!

With all the craziness going on in America, along with several huge wars that are killing millions of people—is it little wonder we’re all not just a bit mentally ill? Isn’t the Ukraine-Russia War insane? Over 2,000,000 killed. How about Gaza-Israel war? Somewhere around 700,000 killed. Intense suffering. How about the craziness of Iran and nuclear weapons in the hands of Islamic religious crazy people?

Little wonder there aren’t hundreds of Lindsay Clancy’s walking around snuffing out the lives of their children, or anyone that happens to get in the way of their guns, knives or automobiles. You probably saw that one lady in New York City who stabbed to death a 28-year-old VP of a bank, and stabbed a 68-year-old guy, who, luckily, lived. At 42, the two-knives lady died “Suicide by Cop.”

No question that since the Columbine High School mass shootings by two teen boys, and that 20-year-old in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the Uvalde, Texas school shootings—we’ve got a major mental health crisis America.

How about that 7 hours and 22 minutes that our teenagers spend on their cell phones, DAILY? Any mental health problems coming out of that nightmare? How about this statistic:

“Recent studies indicate 90 percent of teens have viewed porn online, and 10 percent admit to daily use. This is partly due to increased smartphone usage among children and adolescents, with elementary-age smartphone ownership rising to over 50 percent in recent years.”

Decades ago, I read a book by Izthak Bentov, Stalking the Wild Pendulum. It’s been over five decades since it published, but in that book, he said that Western Societies are going so fast, and that everyone wears shoes, and all of us walk on concrete—that we have lost contact with the electrical energy of the Earth. We’re out of sync with the planet we live upon. It’s driving us crazy to be out of touch with the Natural World.

Another, man, Clint Ober, author of “Earthing” in Evergreen, Colorado, discovered that we need to go barefoot on the grass every day for at least 20 minutes to balance our electrical waves with the planet…just like all the other animals on earth. If you can’t you do that, you can buy “Earthing or Grounding” sheets to sleep on during the night to keep you connected to the planet. (I bought one three years ago. It’s pretty incredible.)

Finally, yes, computers are a wonderful tool, but they are pushing all of us to go too fast, with too much overload, and too much information with 24/7 BAD news blaring at us in-ad-finitum.

How can you spare yourself in this high-speed society?

• Choose to read a book rather watch the news.
• Exercise daily for one hour to use up your body’s energy.
• Eat a healthy diet.
• Share with friends on a hike in the woods, in the desert, on a beach.
• Take a bicycle ride.
• Go on a picnic with your family.

You may find a dozen books on how to live a healthy lifestyle. Let’s all work toward healthier, happier and more peaceful lives.

Finally, Lindsay Clancy’s life will be a living hell for the rest of her existence. She was/is mentally ill. Pray for her children. Pray that her predicament doesn’t become ours, and that she receives some kind of mercy, even forgiveness, if that’s possible. Let our health professionals bring “mental illness” to the top of the list to solve instead of spending trillions of dollars trying to fly to the moon!

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-- Frosty Wooldridge
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