With the daily number of searches on the web in the 10′s of billions and 70% of them focused on health – people need a place to connect with those who have real experience and actual treatment insight. In fact, 1 in 2 Americans today suffer from a chronic illness, more that 75 million caregivers exists and greater than 50 million have been diagnosed with a mental health condition. Serious social implications also lead to illness with a divorce rate among the chronically ill at over 75 percent, and pain resulting from chronic illnesses factor into 70% of suicides, etc. all and all validation of this growing market need. There is without question value in bringing people together who share health and life related struggles.

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Contributed by Amy of treatmentdiaries.com

Cooperative Ideals

This is my proposal: Let everyone who understands the benefits and believes in the power of cooperation join together in building the worlds largest democratic cooperative on earth. This should be the goal anyone who truly understands the following statements:(1) The sum of the parts as a whole; is greater than their sum individually.(2) Two are better than one; for they have a good reward for their labor; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. If two or more people agree on anything they can then work together which multiplies both the velocity and chances of success through the power of cooperative action. For thousands of years the rulers of this world have perverted the principles of voluntary democratic cooperation; into inferior forms such as fascist corporate dictatorship, and divisive winner take all competition, seizing an inordinate amount of control over the earths material resources and defeating the popular democratic will of the people. Voluntary non-profit democratic cooperatives are simply the only way to combat and overcome the corrupt domination that for-profit corporations have over our economy and social institutions. Cooperatives seek the greatest good for both the producer and the consumer; while corporations seek to provide goods and services by minimizing cost in labor and materials, sacrificing quality, monopolization of markets to deny consumer choice, and inflation of overhead and to create excessive profits for a small minority of middlemen who sacrifice the least amount of time and work. This world cannot continue to oppress and persecute eighty percent of the population so twenty percent can live an unsustainable fantasy life while their fellow citizens live in a hell on earth existence. If we are willing we can begin building the cooperative(s) necessary to transform ourselves, and change our reality; thereby avoiding the catastrophic disaster which is inevitable if we fail to take proper action. In conclusion: God created cooperation for the good of all; while the devil himself invented corporation to divide and conquer humankind by taking away their equal rights and freedoms. Which side are you on?

Submitted by John Keister