Venting being mentally ill in todays capitalistic world

[Endstati0n]

I'm expected to work most of my life, have a social life, a wife, kids, house... while being mentally ill. It's already very hard to pull off for a mentally stable person...
I'm 30 now and all my life i was in a deep depression, couldn't keep relationships, always overwhelmed with social interactions and being alone all the time. The "best years of my life" are gone, spent wishing i was never born. I will never be fixed. I will always be damaged. The most i can expect, is for it to get mildy more managable over time, which it has, but that's not enough to make me want to stay. I already did the whole therapy and medication bullshit for years. People like me usually just become bitter miserable and old, probably addicted to cigarettes, alcohol or hard drugs. I can see myself in 50 years being that weird quiet old dude that chain smokes all day. I see those people now and they were probably once like me. But i'm not interested in becoming like this, what's even the point? I don't want to make myself suffer any longer.

It shouldn't be so hard for us to just call it quits. Humanity should finally accept, that life is not for everybody. Suicide should be a viable thing, a normal thing to do when you've had enough. Go to a doctor and talk a couple times, maybe over a period of some months and when you don't change your mind, you get prescribed a medication to end your life for free. It should be like that. I think the world would be a much better place. Let the lucky fuckers live there lucky little dumb lifes but please spare the rest of us from years of unnecessary torture.

 

[Arioso]

Let the lucky fuckers live there lucky little dumb lifes but please spare the rest of us from years of unnecessary torture.

well said

 

[notsosillybilly]

It shouldn't be so hard for us to just call it quits. Humanity should finally accept, that life is not for everybody. Suicide should be a viable thing, a normal thing to do when you've had enough. Go to a doctor and talk a couple times, maybe over a period of some months and when you don't change your mind, you get prescribed a medication to end your life for free. It should be like that. I think the world would be a much better place. Let the lucky fuckers live there lucky little dumb lifes but please spare the rest of us from years of unnecessary torture.

heavily agree omg, like none of us chose to be here so why not let us go?

 

[gentarouhongou]

I agree. It would lovely to have easy access to MAID rather than decoding acronyms to obtain obscure chemicals or doing painful methods because that's all you are able to access. However, on the flip side I can see how controversial it can be to regulate. There are many people who - unlike us - aren't chronically or terminally suicidal. There are people who only experience a wave of suicidal ideation at a low point in their life that has a solution or an ending. Therein lies the problem the government likely faces, it would take very extensive research to find who is truly suitable and who isn't. However, a simpler way of achieving this is possible by making MAID exclusively accessible to those who have documented efforts of attempting different ways to improve their lives and have experimented with various different medications and treatments, all to no avail. Those are very easy to track and subsequently be referred to a MAID program by the discretion of psychiatrists. However, we all know the complexity of the matter isn't the reason the higher ups don't grant us a peaceful way out - it's because they need us, the lower, unlucky class as cogs in their systems to make them richer and give them more control. It was never about us!

 

[Endstati0n]

I agree. It would lovely to have easy access to MAID rather than decoding acronyms to obtain obscure chemicals or doing painful methods because that's all you are able to access. However, on the flip side I can see how controversial it can be to regulate. There are many people who - unlike us - aren't chronically or terminally suicidal. There are people who only experience a wave of suicidal ideation at a low point in their life that has a solution or an ending. Therein lies the problem the government likely faces, it would take very extensive research to find who is truly suitable and who isn't. However, a simpler way of achieving this is possible by making MAID exclusively accessible to those who have documented efforts of attempting different ways to improve their lives and have experimented with various different medications and treatments, all to no avail. Those are very easy to track and subsequently be referred to a MAID program by the discretion of psychiatrists. However, we all know the complexity of the matter isn't the reason the higher ups don't grant us a peaceful way out - it's because they need us, the lower, unlucky class as cogs in their systems to make them richer and give them more control. It was never about us!

100% agree. I also think that there is still a stigma around suicide which is the main problem in all of this. If i see someone wanting to jump to their death, my first instict would be to save that person, even tho he/she may have good reasons to do so, but who am i to decide if they should live or not?
This primal instict to save someone is why assisted suicide is still not very accessable for someone without a shit load of money or a terminal disease. It's like when old people are expected to die soon from cancer and the doctor knows it, but instead of doing the right thing which would be to put them to sleep, we just give them pain killers until they die. That's just crazy. It's just a waste of money, pointless use of a hospital bed, and unnecessary suffering