Discrimination to Depression

[syyaaahhhh]

I read books/websites that are recommended for assisted suicide but somehow I realized that mental illness especially depression is often pushed aside and told to get help instead of being given the same right as other illnesses. This is sad when most of us who are depressed are mentally and physically suffering as any other sickness.

 

[90starve]

just for clarification - do you mean you've read that assisted suicide is recommended to people with physical illnesses rather than mental illnesses?

 

[rawwar539]

Mental illness is not treated anything like anything else. When you seek professional help you are abused and treated as if you are not even a person. They will steal your freedom from you under the pretence of making sure you don't do anything foolish. Exactly how deliberately harming a person is supposed to help them is ridiculous. And if you have the misfortune to being held captive it is so much worse. It literally becomes torture. Apparently a depressed person deserves to be abused and their dignity ripped away from them just because of a mental condition. As a society we have not come very far from the middle ages in this regard.

 

[Goodgirlryeo101]

Honestly that would be an ideal solution for me as I can't live like this anymore my mental health is severe damaged ( beyond repair). I'm already dead inside and I just want to die, though I would have preferred dying in my sleep like with assisted suicide but I know it's impossible because of how anti - suicide the society is.

 

[Forever Sleep]

Yeah- I hate this too. I wish there was- or that they had focussed on finding physical signs for mental illness. The diagnosis to me just sounds so wooly. Tell me your feelings- or, fill in this questionnaire. Right- well- it SOUNDS like this- let's try you on this medication. We don't really know exactly how it works. We don't really know how the brain works in truth- but you should ABSOLUTELY trust us that we know what we're doing.

Imagine if they treated physical illness that way. Pain in the chest huh? Sounds like acid reflux- try these antacids. Oh shit- you're dead- so- it was a heart attack then? Oops.

Plus- yeah- how do they even decide if/ when mental illness isn't curable? Some people here are being told to hang on for a cure! Because it's just around the corner apparently... Again- imagine that with physical illness- yes- we realise you're not enjoying chemotherapy but you know- someone's bound to come up with something better soon...

 

[syyaaahhhh]

just for clarification - do you mean you've read that assisted suicide is recommended to people with physical illnesses rather than mental illnesse

Mental illness is not treated anything like anything else. When you seek professional help you are abused and treated as if you are not even a person. They will steal your freedom from you under the pretence of making sure you don't do anything foolish. Exactly how deliberately harming a person is supposed to help them is ridiculous. And if you have the misfortune to being held captive it is so much worse. It literally becomes torture. Apparently a depressed person deserves to be abused and their dignity ripped away from them just because of a mental condition. As a society we have not come very far from the middle ages in this regard.

Dude psychiatric wards are worst then prison here.

 

[90starve]

ok! im sorry - i didn't realise that you were referring to the PPH. thanks for clarifying :)

 

[FuneralCry]

The Peaceful Pill Handbook is just ridiculous, I just think the fact is that Exit International is a business to profit from old people's suicides and they say that their suicide materials aren't intended for younger people so they don't get shut down and can continue to make a profit.

But it's like the person writing that forgets that we are all going to die anyway, how can death not be appropriate as we are destined for nowhere but to die. But anyway people should be able to leave this world whenever they want to, I think that wanting suicide is always perfectly logical as it's the way to take control over our inevitable fate and prevent unnecessary suffering in the process. None of us are obligated to continue existing.