Life Sucks

Life Sucks

The following text does not represent the opinions of the blogger or other owners or contributors of the blog, it is simply presented here as a testimonial from someone suffering from a mental illness, or maybe someone simply tired. After all, it’s up to psychiatrists to judge and they are people too, and people make mistakes. Also, one of the reasons I decided to agree to post this testimonial (removing any names or personal details for confidentiality and anonymity purposes), is because some people have discussed in comments that psychiatry does not help people and that people are perfectly happy being sick, hearing voices and other unpleasant symptoms which accompany mental disease. While it is clear to most persons, that people do indeed suffer and even live in real nightmares when they have serious mental issues, some rebels without a cause continue to preach anti-psychiatry propaganda, often pushing patients further into isolation. Which is why I decided to post this testimonial to the contrary, explaining that at least some psychiatric patients feel relieved by the professional, psychiatric help they need.

Life Sucks. Illustration : Elena

Statistically, more women than men suffer from depression (MDD or major depressive disorder in clinical terms). But let’s say that this testimonial is from a young man called Patrick. Patrick struggled from depression from age 12, and his first suicide attempt was around then. However, psychiatrists believe that it was not a real suicide attempt, but simply a cry for help. Perhaps the young teenager, who was undergoing the transformation from childhood to adolescence just wanted to attract some attention to himself by ingesting pills. He was made to spit out the pills just in time, so nothing of physical consequence happened. He was referred to countless school psychologists and social workers. Here are his words and thoughts on the matter and on the whole system: But what can they do? Seriously, if you have a problem, how in the world is talking to some psychologist who hasn’t even gotten his Ph.D. going to help you? Chances are it won’t. Life sucks and that’s just the way it is. No pill, no therapy, no treatment can nor will change reality. If your reality sucks, then no antidepressants are going to change that.