As someone who has educated myself on psychology, mental health, neurology, and philosophy, and have various mental illnesses (PTSD, Personality disorders of the Paranoid, Addictive, Dependent, and Avoidant type, OCD, ADHD and Major Depressive Disorder), not only can I evaluate myself, but feel as if I have a greater understanding on my own situation and others in similar situations than the people who counsel me. Not to brag (I’m not a pride type of person), but most psychologist and councelers I been to said that I am very intelligent, articulate, and incredibly self aware compared to there other clients. Some even told me that I should go to school to become a therapist. What they don’t understand is that I am mentally incapible of handling a job like that. I’m on SSI for a reason.
I am also pro suicide as being a choice. I prefer to call it self euthanasia. I want to write this article to debunk the myths and stigma that comes with self euthanasia using my own philosophy and ideas that transcend our current pro life culture.
Myth #1. “Suicide is a perminate solution to a temporary problem” – the phrase “perminate solution” automatically appeals to me. Anyways, who said my problems or others in this group are temporary? I think it’s alittle arrogant and black and white to assume that these problems will just go away. As I mentioned above, I suffer from a barrage of mental illnesses and I’m sure my dopamine receptors are fucked up beyond repair as they always have been. These things just don’t “fix themselves”, and with my experiences, medications are nowhere near powerful enough to correct it. To me, suicide is a perminate solution to a perminate problem.
Myth #2 – “People who want to end there lives are insane” – absolutly not! You could make the argument that we are ahead of the game. Since we are all gonna die anyway, I see it as sort of speeding up the process. There has even been studies done that say depressed people are more likely to see the world for what it really is. I’m guessing this is because people with functioning dopamine receptors are too high on life to realize what a tragity human existence is. Plus “normal” people have something called the Positive Brain Bias which allows people to have a more optimistic view about there life and the world around them despite evidence against their beliefs. It’s a type of neurological deception, like religion, that keeps people going so they can reproduce and keep living. It’s an evolutionary function.
I’ll write more on this later. Losing my concentration
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I love this honestly. It’s exactly how I feel.
Thank you Lisa. This group is incredible. It’s rare that I can relate to so many people like this. Most of the time, nobody can relate to me because they haven’t been what I been though. It takes a suffering person to know and understand someone else who is suffering.
id like to hear you thoughts on the “suicide is selfish” myth
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I do understand the logic behind people thinking suicide is selfish. Than again they don’t understand our unbearable level of pain. It is selfish a way BUT that doesn’t mean it’s wrong. I like to use the term Justified Selfishness. When I do it, I’m gonna do it for me. Not to punish others but to stop the pain. People, even loved ones, need to reexamine the issue and know that people who do commit suicide are no longer suffering. I am a victim in life, but I’ll be a victor in death!
Valid points. In my opinion EVERYONE can be viewed as selfish. Loved ones would likely see as a death by suicide as selfish…. that said… isn’t it selfish for them to want someone to remain alive for them? I know you kinda imply this with the statement of reexamination of the issue.
If someone wants to die, for how long can they stay alive for others and not for their own accord and will?
I am perfectly agreeing with you.
exactly my feelings. why keep fighting to live for someone else when you no longer want to fight for yourself
I have to agree with both of your points. Most psychiatrists tend to put people on this sort of “box” where every person that doesn’t want to live is just wired wrong, or just needs some kind of adjustment to “go back to normal”. While that might be right regarding a good amount of people, i find it insulting that they just assume it’s like that for everybody.
Not long ago i had an argument (friendly one) about that same subject with a classmate. They were arguing that people who are depressed can overcome everything with therapy or meds (it was a psychology class). Even after i mentioned chronic conditions (mental and physical) they were still bent on saying that if people didn’t get better after a prolonged period of time it was just by choice. It was just an introductory class but the thought of having people with that mindset as psychologists… just makes me cringe.
Sadly i’ve met some psychologists that do have that train of thought. With professionals like that, what else can you expect from society?
Bingo and well put. I too am on SSI… 300mg of effexor and 10 mg Latuta. I too am pretty sure I’m f.cked up as I’ve been on SSI for 10+ years. In your 2nd myth, the world is very pointless. We (as a society) put ourselves through mental hell trying to survive another day… jobs, gridlock, day to day social pressures, trying to keep up with the jones’, etc etc… we (as a society) are stuck on the hamster wheel running, hoping to get somewhere (life) only to not (we die).
Life is illogical. The stresses that we put ourselves through is also illogical only to last one more day in a world that will inevitably not (ie. Death).
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Hey I got it sorry I didn’t reply yet. Wasn’t sure if u wanted me too or not
it’s okay, just didn’t want you to be randomly alarmed by random stalker person on the internets. 😛
Thank you everyone. I believe I have found my Tribe! I didn’t realize how many people in here think pretty much the same way I do. Hate that we are united by pain but relieved that we are also united in understanding.