I'm so angry with folks who push 800# crisis lines on those who struggle with mental illness-I get it that they can't handle our mental illness-they don't comprehend it. But when they say things like "permanent fix for a temp problem" or similar when someone commits suicide, that's BS. Mental illness is a LIFELONG thing to be managed, with ups and downs that can be severe.

While external things can be the "straw that breaks the camel's back" the mental illness is NOT a temporary problem, and it ticks me off that people only attribute suicide to external factors... this is terribly SHALLOW.

And let's talk about quality of life. The person who spends 30 years in a bottle due to mental illness does NOT have quality of life- they're not managing their illness AND they are killing themselves SLOWLY. And everyone is ok with this... because- slow, passive suicide is better than sudden, violent suicide. All this while society shuns us, among other things...

#Depression #Anxiety #MentalIllness #Suicide #socialnorms