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[Blackjack]

*Rambling Thoughts for a Friday Afternoon*

I never gave this concept much thought until I found myself seriously contemplating ending my suffering.

This is more rhetorical than anything, but why is someone who is suffering and wants to end that suffering labeled and thrown in to the psychiatric "crazy" pile? What seems "crazier" to me is sticking around longer than necessary when your suffering becomes unmanageable with no chance or hope of reversal.

Suffering is toxic. If someone wants to remove themselves from that toxic existence and how it negatively impacts those around them, that should be their right. And they shouldn't be labeled, or sent off to a psych ward, because of it.

I've gotten to the point where I cannot and do not speak openly or freely about my "ideation" because of the many negative implications of doing so. I am not a "danger" to myself because I want to end my suffering. I am not "crazy" because I want to spare myself & my loved ones my toxic existence. Dare I say it's "crazy" to expect the person suffering to want anything different than a release from this excruciating bondage.

Anybody feel me? Talk amongst yourselves.

 

[Jean Améry]

Suffering is toxic. If someone wants to remove themselves from that toxic existence and how it negatively impacts those around them, that should be their right. And they shouldn't be labeled, or sent off to a psych ward, because of it.

Amen to that. Short answer: society owns you, has a vested interest in keeping you alive and psychiatrists provide the ideological justification for the gross human-rights violations that befall the suicidal.

 

[Dawn0071111]

Because they are high value placed on enduring, persevering, overcoming, pulling ones self up from thebootstraps..... never giving up..blah blah blah