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Originally posted by kiwidoc:
re Suicide is the cowards way out
Sorry if this is a little off the orginal topic but I can't let this go unasnwered
As someone who has more knowledge and more experince of suicide attempts and actual suicides than almost all of you here I would like to explode this myth.
* Suicide is seen as the only option to deal with overwhelming pain, whether emotional or physical. People who try to die genuinely believe there is no other way to end this pain.
* Emotional pain can easily be as bad as physical pain.
* People who suffer severe emotional pain due to psychiatric illness aren't weak, oversensitive or somehow second rate any more than someone with diabetes or asthma is. These illnesses have a biological basis (inheritance and past damage) and an environmental trigger - and psychiatric disorders are just the same.
* Judgemental attitudes like this are VERY offensive to people who have been there but survived.
Let me tell you the stories of some of my patients who have suicided. The 27 year old man who had voices abusing and reviling him 24 hours a day since the age of 17, and no treatment helped in the slightest. The 75 year old who still had nightmares about his time in Dachau and the guilt of still being alive finally overwhelmed him. The 40 year old man who crashed his van and heard his son die next to him, and who's head injury left him with unbelievably severe muscle spasms that did not respond to treatment. The 16year old girl whos father chained her to the bed and raped her after burning cigarettes on her leg as far back as she could remember, she finally gathers up the courage and runs to grandad - who raped her as well.
If you think you could have dealt with this level of pain with bugger all support and no sign of away out then youtr imagination is a bit lacking.
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suicide is an easy way out...
if you can just hang on another moment longer, blessings just might come, you know?
my best wishs for everyone who is going through a crisis, be brave