RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention
June 4, 2018 at 12:28 pm
(This post was last modified: June 4, 2018 at 12:33 pm by Mystic.)
(June 4, 2018 at 12:22 pm)Losty Wrote: Despair is not evil. People can’t even help it when they feel despair.
We can help ourselves, and if we can't, God and his appointed guides of the past to the present, can help us.
(June 4, 2018 at 12:24 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Right. Religion is evil.
Why because it put's some responsibility to mental illness?
Most religious people are taking secular approach. I just don't buy it and in fact, one good reason for me to believe in religion was due to it's approach to mental health which is been forgotten and neglected in this century.
(June 4, 2018 at 12:21 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(June 4, 2018 at 12:15 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: I been through it.
It's not out of malice true, but out of despair.
Despair is a great evil and sin too, when there is no reason not to hold on to hope.
No, depression isn't about despair, it is a electro/chemical imbalance in the brain which leads to feeling of despair. AND NO it is not evil, it is quite NORMAL. I didn't say desired, but normal. Your calling it evil is why humans with mental illness get stigmatized. An imperfect human body should NEVER be stigmatized. Your talk of "evil" is why those who suffer from it DONT get help.
I do not like you calling my condition "evil". My brain is not controlled either by a magic super hero or a guy with a pitchfork. My condition is a result of my genes, my upbringing and my current electrochemical state of my brain.
"Hope" isn't fostered by calling a condition evil. Hope is when you can trust others not to judge you for your condition.
It becomes a chicken and egg thing, which came first.
Anyways, anti-depressents can help if it's just taken as a like boost to a battery, but the person has to take the right steps.
And religion helps more to take the right steps more than any psychologist in my view.
