Value Choices: A series of value choices becomes the complex systemic path to one person's symptoms

“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” – H. L. Mencken I have been working on a mental health project for a large non-profit organization that owns the space for one major health problem. Leadership recognizes the importance of stress and mental ill health as a contributor to the onset and course of their illness and wants to tackle the various mental health contributors. They have been engaged with major corporations throught a wellness scorecard examining corporate wellness initiatives which could impact the incidence of their disease. I was engaged as a subject matter expert to provide context, update research knowledge with a critical eye toward the quality of that research, and contribute to a plan for this major NPO to affect MH policy, training, and service delivery of educational, marketing, preventive and treatment services. A colleague and friend who is a marketing guru helped me take a broader, even global, view of ...