MY SOLUTION

My solution would be to have a town or city PILOTED to give all it's citizens work. People would be Mentally and physically healthier and there would be less crime and with less need for POLICE and health intervention the costs would balance out. Everyone would be healthier and happier and we would have a truly CIVILISED Society. I know it sounds and probably is naive but that is MY SOLUTION. I believe that so much creative intelligence is lost to one form or another of Mental Illness that we should do something. PLEASE!

SO AT LEAST THERE IS NO LONGER ANY WONDER AS TO WHY PEOPLE COMMIT SUICIDE

At the Bottom of the Cliff

At the bottom of the cliff everyone runs around trying to put back the pieces and coax you back to the positive side of life and behave in exemplary fashion. But I think it's all a pathetic waste of the "Health" dollar really. Plenty of people have jobs but their patients chance at quality of life is not improved greatly.

You know you are not doing very well when even your fellow psychiatric patients shun you and perhaps I have got the recipe wrong and should be grateful that I have the support I do have.

But I'm sick of the PLATITUDES!
PLEASE GIVE ME AN OUT!

I was Traumatised from the Age of Five

I was traumatised from the age of five my fear of having a Mental Illness was so great. Seeing how cruelly my mother was patronised and condemned and knowing that I was "different". I've spent the rest of my life trying to run from that fear but I have had a guts full. I had the I.Q. of a Mensa when I was young but because of the stress of trying to make the grade and trying to fit in either Breakdowns or Psychiatric Medicine have literally "fried" my mind. I am desperate and vulnerable and have been tortured and shunned most of most of my life. We care more about the treatment of chimpanzees than the Mentally Ill. Perhaps survival of the fittest is how it goes but if we are to go with that phillosophy I think we should be kind enough to the Mentally Ill and Euthanaise them. If we had a "Christian" Society we would make a place for them and give them occupation as we do with I.H.C. I am ANGRY and DISGUSTED with the way we treat the Mentally Ill!

The Scrap Heap of Human Souls

Nobody wants to be on a Human Scrap Heap and a Humane Society wouldn't have one. Our Society is a wonderful place for the talented and successful but it is full of loathing and contempt for those that are not as adept and learned or capable. We pick out people's weaknesses and use that as a way to justify their condemnation. The only way that I could cope with the tirade of criticisms was to live in a complete fantasy world and cling desperately to HOPE. Now that I've completely lost HOPE I can tell the Truth about my situation. People are NOT accepting of the Mentally Ill. They are generally cruel and judgemental to the point where the Mentally Ill person has trouble going to the Grocery Department even to get food. I've had the finger pointed at me for years and I've decided it is time to point the finger back! Sure I compounded things by turning to marijuana and really going completely out of my mind but I never stood a chance in the first place. We pride ourselves on a few warm fuzzy ads about accepting the Mentally Ill when in reality we laugh at, or mock or condemn them. Mental Illness would not be such an issue in our Society if we closed the "Abyss" which people currently fall into and gave people HOPE.

I've become Cynical

Actually I do believe Psychiatrists care. Why would they choose to be Psychiatrists if they didn't care? But when their magic potions don't work they lay the blame at the feet of their patient. We are now enemies and they don't have the decency to Euthanaise me. People live every day with the fear that they might become Mentally Ill. That is most people's worst nightmare and when it does happen and you are desperate and people do nothing but take advantage or condescend you are supposed to remain grateful and grin and bear it until you completely loose your mind. Personally I think it would be kinder to line Psychiatric Patients up against a wall and shoot them. One way or another they will always be at the mercy of other people's kindness unless we take it upon ourselves as a Society to protect the Mentally Ill. We don't give them WORK and therefore don't give them HOPE. I feel that I have had to live as a condemned woman ever since my first Breakdown and that I could be more positive if I were on death row because at least there would be an end to the suffering. To be Raped and have a murder attempt upon one's life and to realise that Justice does not apply to the Mentally Ill, to be wrongfully accused of molesting your own child when child molesting is not in my vocabulary, to have your child taken from you when you have been a good mother. All these things make you realise that, when the chips are down, there are NO RIGHTS for the Mentally Ill so why not JUST SHOOT THEM? And when the drugs cause Breast Cancer and A.C.C. won't even recognise the fact wouldn't anyone feel angry.

I saw My Psychiatrist Yesterday

I saw my Psychiatrist yesterday and when I tried to tell him that leaving people isolated in the community was worse than having them in Asylums he said to me to try and look at the "Positives" He also quoted "Lord give me the Wisdom to change what I can change and........................the wisdom to see what I can't change and know the difference". He's a lovely man and his advice is quite sensible and practical but I would like to see things change so that people who are diagnosed with a Mental Illness do not suffer quite to the same extent. For the Psychiatrist a patients suffering is actually their "Business" so why would they really care about trying to PREVENT that suffering? Too many of our young people are falling through the cracks in our Capitalist Society and we look towards those people with anger, hatred and hostility and they look back with the same emotions. If we want a comparatively Crime free Society we should be tailoring work for each and every citizen so that they can have the dignity of occupation. I believe that is the KEY.

What I really think is that he is glib and PATRONISING and sits on his PERCH judging those that have completely lost HOPE WITHOUT TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHY they have completely lost HOPE.