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Originally Posted by Só leigheas
Spend one single day in the shoes of those who deal with intense SI, those who are so down they can't lift their head off of the pillow, those who are so overwhelmed by anxiety they can't go shopping in normal hours of a day. Spend one day wanting to end all of the pain you're currently feeling. Then, maybe, just maybe you'll get it. And maybe you'll see that we are not weak.
And I swear, I hear one more person tell me that someone who commits suicide was 'too weak to handle the world'; I'm going to lose it. You think it's the "easy way out"? Who the **** actually wants that as their only option to stop the pain? It's the most difficult choice to make, ever. And maybe if you weren't such a self-righteous, hard-headed, stubborn jackass; you would see how many attempts to get better that person made, because they didn't want to hurt those they loved.
(This isn't about anyone on PC. I'm really just venting.)
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Not sure how many times I have said similar words. Problem is - its like us trying to imagine what its like not to be able to smell. Doesn't seem major. But the sense of smell can let you know when something you are cooking starts to burn. Your balance is actually affected by not being able to use the nose properly, all sorts of little things make life a bit more difficult - for something that to others seems laughable.
For someone who has never been through mental illness problems - imagining their intensity or the desparation it causes as you try to cone up with solution after solution ... is next to impossible. There are some that will sympathize - but sympathy only goes so far before it becomes "I am tired of this now".
No, its not right for them to belittle and berate us...and I will not sayvit is.
I will say its a lot like the abused child that equates love with abuse. Those children do that because that's the life they have always known.
These people berate and belittle because we seem to threaten the only world they've ever known.
Perhaps one day we will all be able to communicate with one another so nobody has to guess the magnitude of the emotuin. That would be nice...
Until then - we just gotta keep trying to be strong while we search for people that can n will support us as we travel our path to healing