assisted suicide vs suicide prevention

[Rev. Rye]

Mental illnesses can be cured. I will prove it with my life and all symptoms will disappear entirely.

Correction: they can be treated, not cured. You may lose the symptoms, and you can certainly learn to cope better with the stressful external factors, but there’s always a good chance that, if left unchecked, and given the right circumstances, they can recur. It’s kind of like cancer that way, except a bit less deadly. Just a reminder, I have been professionally diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, depression, and OCD and have done a lot of reading in this area. The last two are in check and I’ve been learning to cope with the first for the last 28 years, but I’m not cured. If you really have it, you’re never really cured, but you can (usually) improve. To insist otherwise is ignorance bordering on hubris.