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- Jul 27, 2024
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I don't want to discourage anyone from trying to find help from mental health services. I personally know people who have been helped by doctors, psychiatrists and therapists.
Several times in the past few years, I volunteered for some corporate-funded "mental health awareness week" at my university. And my God, I hate the material we handed out.
On one pamphlet, there's a picture of some guy sending a text to a friend or coworker saying "u good?" And a caption that said something like "reaching out could save a life." And I'm like, sending a text saying "u good?" isn't going to save a fucking life. Either the person will reply "yeah I'm fine, just a bit tired lol" when they're really on the verge of suicide, or worse, they'll respond "actually man, I've been feeling pretty horrible because..." followed by a litany of problems that the original texter couldn't possibly solve.
Normal people want to live in some fairytale world where every suicide is preventable, where no one actually has unsolvable problems, and where the only reason anyone commits suicide is because they haven't looked for help. And all it takes is one appointment with a doctor to give you some magic pills that will make the depression go away, or a few appointments with a therapist who will quickly make you think "wow, life isn't actually so bad!" And then you're cured.
But people suffer in this world. They suffer for real, and they suffer for years, decades, lifetimes. And many of them suffer from depression that is resistant to treatment, or in many cases from life circumstances that inevitably cause depression (in my case, an incurable chronic PHYSICAL illness that makes every fucking day agonizingly painful!!).
But yeah, after I commit suicide, make sure everyone knows it's because no one texted me "u good?"
Several times in the past few years, I volunteered for some corporate-funded "mental health awareness week" at my university. And my God, I hate the material we handed out.
On one pamphlet, there's a picture of some guy sending a text to a friend or coworker saying "u good?" And a caption that said something like "reaching out could save a life." And I'm like, sending a text saying "u good?" isn't going to save a fucking life. Either the person will reply "yeah I'm fine, just a bit tired lol" when they're really on the verge of suicide, or worse, they'll respond "actually man, I've been feeling pretty horrible because..." followed by a litany of problems that the original texter couldn't possibly solve.
Normal people want to live in some fairytale world where every suicide is preventable, where no one actually has unsolvable problems, and where the only reason anyone commits suicide is because they haven't looked for help. And all it takes is one appointment with a doctor to give you some magic pills that will make the depression go away, or a few appointments with a therapist who will quickly make you think "wow, life isn't actually so bad!" And then you're cured.
But people suffer in this world. They suffer for real, and they suffer for years, decades, lifetimes. And many of them suffer from depression that is resistant to treatment, or in many cases from life circumstances that inevitably cause depression (in my case, an incurable chronic PHYSICAL illness that makes every fucking day agonizingly painful!!).
But yeah, after I commit suicide, make sure everyone knows it's because no one texted me "u good?"