Are We Moving Backwards? Moving Forward? I Have No Idea Where We Are Anymore...

[chibam]

So recently, this popped up in my youtube reccomends:
(Trigger Warning: Suicide)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpWuf96-G7g&rco=1

It mentions several times that "suicide is not rational" (or words to that effect) - and those are apparently not mere the sediments of the maker of the video; they are official commentary from a couple of senior mental health professors!

Recently, I'd began to hope that there was a change in the air, away from this sort of dogma. I'd read numerous reports and inquiry submissions lately - from high-profile sources - stating that suicide needs to be broken apart from 'mental health' treatment and treated as a completely separate issue. They've been acknowledging that suicide very often has nothing to so with mental illness, and is instead a response to a real-world crisis in the patient's life that needs to be remedied. And for the past year or so, it's been like there might finally be a light at the end of the tunnel; that the people in power are finally starting to get it, and might finally start giving us the help we've been crying out for for years!

And then I see this video, touting this 'new' stance of 'mental health experts' system towards suicide.

What makes it worse is that it actually advocates for therapists to superficially embrace the attitude that suicide is a response to a real-world crisis; to express an interest in their patients' real-world problems... but only as a means to get inside the patient's head, so that they can attack the patient's suicidalness as a "mental illness". It all comes back to a self-righteous brainwashing campaign of convincing the 'defective' suicidal people that "suicide is not rational".

Except now, their using the guise of compassion and genuine concern for our real-life problems as a tool to play us. Their using our own words - our own advocacy against us! Using it to develop new strategies for being able to manipulate us into serving their own ends!

It makes me wonder if every word I've read expressing supposed sympathy for the fact that suicide is not a sign of mental illness is just a scam. Just another case of the big boys in charge telling us loonies what we want to hear, in order to make us more cooperative...

The little guy never wins.