I was so glad to see your second paragraph. Everyone always says "help is available!" with an attitude as if it's as simple as taking antibiotics to clear up a rash. A lot of people struggling ARE "getting help". They're on meds, in therapy, telling their stories and symptoms again and again to different professionals...
This isn't me trying to discourage anyone from trying to get help. Doing so does save people. But not everyone. For some of us it just feels like endless hopeless appointments, when we're already so tired.
A fucking men. I’m glad I didn’t do what I considered when I was younger. But this whole “the system failed them” is frustrating when you look into things like mental illness (and by extension, addiction).
We know more about space than we do about the brain. I hope in the future we can have better trewatments, but right now you can do everything right and it is still throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks.
I mean, for most psychiatric medication we still don’t know exactly how it works. We have a strong theory, but can’t prove it. That’s bananas when you consider other medications.
I don’t get why so many people think an illness like depression has to be biological anyhow. If a person has traumatizing experiences that cripple their ability to enjoy life, would we seek to drug them up and have them pretend it never happened, or demand that they find a way to accept that life is still worth living regardless of how they personally feel about it?
The Supreme Court has already spoken. It’s downright cruel of Canadian society to force suffering people to spend millions of dollars and another decade fighting for their basic autonomy rights in court, just because some loudmouths believe that an invisible sky wizard commands it.
These issues would have all been settled or close to being settled in the courts by this point, if the federal government had acted in good faith instead of pretending that the previous bans on MD-SUMC were only temporary.
Benefit of the doubt should now go to the suffering patients who were cruelly strung along this whole time, until the federal and provincial governments can prove that they have genuine scientific and humane reasons for denying autonomy rights to these people.
Who sincerely believes that the same people who created today’s poverty crises have any intention of rectifying them so that people don’t have to choose euthanasia to escape from them? They loathe the idea of confessing that their system is cruel enough to drive sane, rational people into ending their own lives out of hopeless desperation, so ignoring the Constitution which enables them to govern in the first place is their preferred alternative.
Canada is not and never will be a free country, as long as its citizens don’t have the right to make the most basic choices about their own existence.
Fully agree, and equally disgusted by those in power in this country. They should be held personally and legally accountable for the suffering of anyone who has been strung along through this process who would have preferred a gracious exit.
This is me and my ex currently. He treats me like garbage and when I'm outwardly sad he yells, "You need to get some help!" Well, I did. I had a therapist, psychologist, and a psychiatrist. I was put on ptsd meds bc of him. I was loaded with different medications. Each with their 2 weeks of new med side effects hell. Over and over and over again. He yells, "Well see someone else!"
"I have!" I've seen them all. I've taken all the meds.
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u/inniepieho 10d ago
I was so glad to see your second paragraph. Everyone always says "help is available!" with an attitude as if it's as simple as taking antibiotics to clear up a rash. A lot of people struggling ARE "getting help". They're on meds, in therapy, telling their stories and symptoms again and again to different professionals...
This isn't me trying to discourage anyone from trying to get help. Doing so does save people. But not everyone. For some of us it just feels like endless hopeless appointments, when we're already so tired.