Reply #177: Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your compassionate AND educated reply. [View All]

[Dem2theMax]

I wish every person on here who used the terms 'selfish and coward' had to live with a worst case scenario of bipolar disorder for one month.
And they would have to take mind altering medications that not only don't work, they make the condition worse.
Add to that NO support from family or friends because they are too busy calling the sick person names.
Yeah, a month of bipolar disorder. That would shut them up in heartbeat.
People who commit suicide are in horrible, horrible, HORRIBLE pain that they cannot take for one moment longer.
Why is it OK for someone with terminal, PAINFUL cancer to opt out? But those who have a mental illness and are in the same pain,
they are mocked, scorned, called names, and made to feel guilty for being sick.
There is no cure for mental illness. Just as there is no cure for cancer. Only treatments that sometimes work, and many times do not work.

Mental illness is just that, an ILLNESS. WHY are people on this board blaming people for being sick and for no longer being able to stand the pain?
*waving my magic wand over them and giving them a month in the black hole of bipolar disorder* Enjoy. :mad:

And for anyone who wants to argue with me on this point - don't even try. I come armed with 54 years of first hand experience.
Anyone shooting off their mouths with the words 'selfish and coward' - you are shooting with blanks.