Many people who die from suicide did not have people around them who understood them and knew what to say to them.

August 13, 2014

That doesn't mean that the people who knew them and to whom they were the closest didn't love them.

Sometimes that adds to the pain, that the people whom they love and who love them don't know how to help them.

Unfortunately, mental health is taken the least seriously of all the health professions.  That's obvious from how little training the people who spend the most time with patients in psychiatric units are required to have, and how badly mental health patients are treated almost everywhere.  It is an insulting idea that a diagnosis and/or a prescription can heal serious emotional pain, particularly that which results from psychological disturbances, trauma, or a client's realization that he or she has harmed people and feels that he or she can't ever repair the damage.

There are no substitutes for health, health care professionals who know and care what they're doing, or morality.

Copyright L. Kochman, August 13, 2014 @ 12:56 p.m./edited @ 1:01 p.m./edited @ 1:03 p.m.