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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
I do like how people make out increasing suicide rates can be solved by "taking measures", "increasing support" etc...
Suicide rates are increasing because the western world is in the midst of an existential catastrophe that is only going to get steadily worse. Bleak, but that's the situation.
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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
Well not to get too down on things but... the youth of today are cast adrift into a declining, indifferent, vapid and jaded world and then laughed at or told to get over it - or even to be grateful - when they complain that it leaves them feeling existentially hollow.
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...I don’t really want to agree with you TS...because yeah that does all seem a bit bleak and down...but sadly I have to agree, though...I’m not sure the western world is in the midst of an existential catastrophe though...that does feel a little ‘dramatic’...but I do think in some areas it feels quite regressive..or hindering of progression, if you like...it’s quite ironic really of our progressive modern day world...that we have ‘so many answers’...so much understanding and awareness etc in terms of mental health issues ...but that’s all kind of a bit pointless if what we don’t have is the funding to implement these things...it’s always been a fight and a struggle to get the help needed with mental health issues in very young people..but now no matter how hard the fight and no matter how strenuous the struggle...it’s sadly becoming an impossibility for the many...
...I fear it’s becoming or has become a little bit of a disclaimer world in which we live...in that if a mental health issue is diagnosed, then there would be an obligation to address in the funding given to the help that’s needed...so let’s just not diagnose in the first place...oh it’s just a phase that child../..young person is going through or whatever...I’ve actually been given that exact phrase myself when referring to a young person with multiple attempted suicides...
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...’back in the not so distant day’, things like post natal depression wouldn’t have even been recognised or understood as we know....so we have all of this ‘understanding’ through time of so many mental health issues and illnesses...only to be told...sorry, it’s all too expensive...just pull yourself together, baby...life could be worse don’t you know...
...I mean crikey, you’ve got a phone and an iPad, don’t you know...what on Earth are you moaning about, life has never been so good or free of anxieties..
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