I put my own Life forward as an example of the present failures in the Mental Health System

I am going to use my own life as an example of where the present Health System failed me and put forward ideas how this suffering may have been averted so that future clients of the Mental Health System might be able to live more fulfilling lives.

I was born into Mental Illness. My mother was Bi-Polar and I was taken from her at birth and looked after for six weeks by my Grandmother. I was the second child and I honestly believe that, in this time of overpopulation of the Planet, we should consider restricting multiple births to people who suffer severely from Mental Illness and other serious Health Issues. Thus we could reduce the human cost of suffering in future generations. Children need stimulation if they are to thrive and my mother was so lost and isolated I believe that she was unable to provide the necessary level of care to enable socialisation of her children.

I watched my mother suffer the humiliations and degradations of being stigmatised and when I was 16 I wrote a speech on Euthanasia. It seemed to me that she was living a life of Hell and I believed that she should be able to have the option of Euthanasia. My mother, in her old age, has since gone on to find happiness in her golden years in a nursing home but I argue now for the right to have the choice of Euthanasia for myself.