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Ta555
Enlightened
- Aug 31, 2021
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I've been thinking about this and how so few people understand you when you don't want to live anymore. Most therapists and mental health people just push bullshit at you. However there are some mental health professionals and services that aren't all sunshine and rainbows and will truly listen and talk to you when you're suicidal and won't judge or call the cops on you BUT even then in the end they're never ok with the actual CTB. In the end they always say things will get better/can change and suicide is not the answer. I'm so fucking sick of this.
I wish I just had one person, one, who would understand me and accept that CTB is a legitimate solution to some problems.
I remember reading Albert Ellis, who was a big name in psychotherapy back in the 60s-80s. He came up with a therapy similar to cognitive behavioural therapy but anyway, I remember him writing about a client he had who was getting a bit aggressive and out of control in the session and basically got up and threatened to throw himself out the window right there and then and Albert Ellis just said to him 'Well, that's your decision, I'm not going to stop you,' and the guy was so surprised he calmed down and they continued the session and I thought whoa...hats off to that guy. He wasn't using reverse psychology or mind tricks or whatever, that was just his belief, that people have a right to make whatever choice they want about themselves and their lives.
I just wish more people were ok with death. It's become such a taboo and offlimits subject in society. It's so sanitised and hush hushed and out of the way. It's frustrating.
I wish I just had one person, one, who would understand me and accept that CTB is a legitimate solution to some problems.
I remember reading Albert Ellis, who was a big name in psychotherapy back in the 60s-80s. He came up with a therapy similar to cognitive behavioural therapy but anyway, I remember him writing about a client he had who was getting a bit aggressive and out of control in the session and basically got up and threatened to throw himself out the window right there and then and Albert Ellis just said to him 'Well, that's your decision, I'm not going to stop you,' and the guy was so surprised he calmed down and they continued the session and I thought whoa...hats off to that guy. He wasn't using reverse psychology or mind tricks or whatever, that was just his belief, that people have a right to make whatever choice they want about themselves and their lives.
I just wish more people were ok with death. It's become such a taboo and offlimits subject in society. It's so sanitised and hush hushed and out of the way. It's frustrating.