-Locked facilities are terrible, and often suicidal people have the option of either getting treatment and telling the truth, which will be guaranteed to result in an expensive locked psychiatric stay that will be painful and degrading and not help at all, or the option of trying to get help while lying to a therapist or treatment provider and pretending to be sad enough for treatment but not suicidal enough to be degraded, confined, and humiliated in a locked facility. These are really awful choices caused by the mental health industry that alienate people
-Being diagnosed with a mental health disorder can make it impossible for people to do certain careers or own firearms, which is why men are reluctant to get mental health services. It's not that men aren't depressed or don't realize there's help, it's that the government has created a regulatory environment that results in people actively not wanting to get care for rational reasons. Even just being diagnosed with a major depressive disorder means that certain rights are impacted in many countries.
-Psychiatric inpatient stays are terrible expensive. People are not guaranteed to not lose a job, it can prevent people from completing school, and if people know you've been hospitalized there's a stigma attached. If someone is hospitalized involuntarily, they can be billed even if they never consented to treatment in some countries, enriching doctors and impoverishing the hospitalized and their families
-Society tends to enact rules that make them feel collectively better, but don't really solve any problems. It's not a lack of mental health awareness that results in suicides. No one goes "Hmm... I am sad. I really wish there was something I could do to change it, like take some pills or talk to someone, but I'm not sure how to figure out how to make that happen. Instead, I'll just end my life."
-Many suicidal people are not that irrational and just are tired of pain. Often talk therapy and pills are expensive, time-wasting, have side effects, and don't really solve the underlying problem going on. Many suicidal people have already tried these things.
-Mental health awareness months are insulting to people who are suicidal and depressed because it implies that we just don't realize that they are benevolent and wanting to help, and only if they put up more posters and ads about suicide hotlines (which typically result in involuntary kidnapping and imprisonment in hospitals), then it would solve everything
-They should change the name of "Mental Health Awareness" month to "Let's Try to Feel Better About All The People Who Are Saying Fuck This and Exiting This Awful Existence by Promoting Drugs and Therapy to People Who Already Know About That."
