Physical injuries can be extremely painful, but they are visible, and
so treatable. Mental and emotional wounds can be far more severe because they are not always obvious. A broken arm can be
set - but a broken heart can’t.
Generally, health service professionals are ill-equipped to deal with
our emotional problems. It is only when our emotional distress becomes
a debilitating condition that is diagnosable (as being a mental health condition) that we become treatable.
The purpose of the emotional first aid kit is to look at a number of simple methods of dealing with emotional distress before it becomes debilitating.
