My girlfriend intended to suicide herself in December 2014. This was a few months before she met me in March 2015. She's mostly better now.
There are reasons that people feel depressed. American psychiatry does not treat causes, it experiments with drugs that hopefully help the undesired symptoms go away. [1]
I wonder what the mental health system is like in Belgium. If it's anything like the American state-of-the-art, it's ineffective at best.
In several countries in eastern and western Europe it is pretty much the same (as the American psychiatry). My brother has been depressed for quite some time (about 10-ish years) now and has seen psychiatrists in, for example, The Netherlands. The treatment there was indeed trying out a few different drugs to see what the effect of these is.
Fortunately, he is steadily (but slowly) improving but not thanks to drugs and psychiatry(he mostly stopped with any prescription drug 6 months after starting because it didn't do anything besides numbing numbing him).
When I see things like this, it makes me really think to the root of who we are as people and how depression plays into our role as human beings. I often wish it was possible to provide a genetic "vaccine" to depression in early embryonic stages of human development. If there was some way to encourage growth of 5-HTT alleles (longer alleles equal less prone to depression) we could see people born seemingly "immune" to this state of being.
Decide weather, really? Really? A comic reference, are you serious? I mean, this is kind of a serious topic so your comment would seem inappropriate, but I appreciate the helpfulness towards language learners. It's just the person making the mistake would not even get the joke if they don't know it's supposed to be spelled 'whether'.
Seems ridiculous anyhow that anyone would seek permission for suicide. If somebody is so dependent, allowing it is obviously grossly negligent. If she doesn't recover, her death is a problem that will eventually solve it self, it just takes patience.
There are reasons that people feel depressed. American psychiatry does not treat causes, it experiments with drugs that hopefully help the undesired symptoms go away. [1]
I wonder what the mental health system is like in Belgium. If it's anything like the American state-of-the-art, it's ineffective at best.
[1] https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-doctor-isnt-...