My husband is a paramedic, he says things like this ALL the time about psych patients.

In the city I live there's this one bridge that is (was) notorious for people jumping off of. So much so, they put up "suicide fences" to prevent it. Ironically, at the one end of this bridge is the local psych hospital. Also ironically, not a half mile across the valley is another bridge (on a very busy highway) with NO suicide fences.

Last week some man tried to climb up the suicide fenced wall and failed. And instead walked into the ER of the hospital. My husband is telling me this story and I say "awww poor guy, I'm sure that's a better place for him".

To which HE says "god if it were ME in the ER that day I would have just told him to go to the other bridge".

I say with no pause "yes, as someone who's actually thought about this... THIS is how I'd actually do it" and go on to explain how I've actually thought this all through.

He was shocked and immediately felt bad. I said, "hey, you want to knock it, let's talk about it, funny man". I tend to get very defensive of the psych patient's he's always making fun of so much.

I found that the tactic of comparing it to mine own life very helpful with him understanding it. But... at the same time... I really doubt he'll stop making fun of it.