Mental Health is a state everyone wants and wishes to be strong and stable. Yet any attempt to get that strength and stability by forming, shaping, or expanding it is often viewed as revelation of underlying weakness or instability. After all, if we need to build it, does that not mean that it is weak and unstable?

At Prometheum Institute, we see that mental health is driven by mental strength, a property that is not innate but must be developed particularly. When the mental strength is poorly developed, affirmed, or recognized relative to the conditions that challenge us, mental health can become destabilized. Since these conditions change randomly and continuously, the most useful thing people need when their mental health is compromised is the knowledge - of why their mental strength is lacking, what caused the deficit, and what is needed to correct that deficit (not how to stabilize the conditions). To help someone whose mental health is disturbed, therefore, we can suggest the solution for each condition where they experience distress. Or we can show them how to get it from themselves. To do this, they only need the guidance to look at themselves analytically, examine life constructively, and believe in themselves realistically. This is what our platform offers to both providers and their clients alike. The online guidance is free and quite comprehensive.

In the nineteen nineties I worked as a physician with a special interest in mental health and addictions. I presented papers on mental disturbance or distress and as conditions resulting from insufficient psycho-socio-spiritual development rather than an illness or imposition. In 2004, I opened Prometheum Institute and had it registered as an educational facility to provide instruction on life management studies including Neoplatonism, existentialism, and spiritual realization. Our platform has been accepted in Canada as a teaching module for counsellors granting 25 hours of study credits at CACCF and CCPA.