I've had friends who've attempted suicide, been in and out of mental hospitals, and had a hard time with others not seeming to understand them...... yet on the same note trying to 'fix' them.
The problem is in what society is essentially sweeping under the rug in denial in regard to understanding so many problems that our young people are having trouble in coping with today.
We're not going to be able to really help anyone, young or old, until we start looking at the root causes that exist today that are pushing record numbers of youth into depression and suicide. It's sheer madness to be prescribing medication to a person who is "professionally diagnosed" with some kind of disease or having some kind of medical problem... when the reality is there's nothing wrong with them at all that can't be fixed by addressing the root causes for the 'ailment.' The problem exists in society by its unwillingness to address these problems at the root.... which are also the problems, namely stress, which manifest themselves into the form of physical ailments and diseases.
We choose to medicate and misdiagnose because we're unwilling to face the problem our society has created and has also chosen not to deal with.
Blame society? Okay, but just remember: society is only the sum of its individuals... should people choose to be individuals and not sheep. We are the only ones who can fix these issues we've created.... but we never will by taking the path of denial. And interestingly enough, any professional psychologist will say the same thing.
So many problems can be solved immediately if we just listen to one another rather than deciding we already know ahead of time that we 'know better.' So when we listen these people who have been pushed to the brink, we start to understand where they're coming from and 'why' they feel the way they do and why they may have felt the need to 'end it all....'
I really care a lot for people and I don't see our current infrastructure set up in a way that caters to an individuals mental or physical health at all; instead it puts the individual into a position to be a cog in the great money machine, which takes its toll, with many, in the form of stress and physical ailments, which then get 'cared for' by attempting to cover up the symptoms and badging those whose minds snap as 'insane' and those who have attempted to kill themselves as 'criminals' who are also mentally unfit. In a position like this, can you blame a person? What hell must they be going through to decide to want to kill themselves.... it reminds me of the folks who chose to jump from the world trade towers as they were burning. To them, it seemed the only escape. They'd rather jump and plummet than be burned alive. Can anyone here put themselves in those shoes?
Rash impersonality and widespread 'systematic' procedure in everything we do in an attempt to stay alive is stressful. Stress is the root of many of today's ills.
Facing this would mean recognizing that our infrastructure needs to change.... and this would seem to have dire consequences carried with it to so many people-- both those in cushy positions and those in workaday positions who, even though they feel and act part of the system due to feeling that they have no other choice, are afraid of the unknown that such massive change would bring. These are also the people who feel that they are 'caught in the middle' and can do nothing to change things. Stress? Suicide. This is the reality. The same goes for any number of issues an individual is experiencing in their life in which they feel 'alone' and bereft at having to deal with 'alone.'
And so the issues are ignored until a time at which it will all backfire in everyone's faces.
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I don't want to sound like a doom and gloomer but looking at our problems with common sense says that there are some major changes that need to take place if we're to start really taking care of ourselves.... caring for each other as real human beings with real problems and real feelings instead of looking at one another with apathy and denial.
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That was lame.
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