Comments on: When Darkness Traps People, Consider The System

By: Jason Aull

Jason Aull — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 18:52:48 +0000

I’ve been suicidal many times. Lately, I’ve been reading articles here at MIA about suicide. Maybe it’s not healthy for me to do that. There was a guy here where I live that from what I’ve heard talked about killing himself and pulled it off. He wasn’t the first since I’ve been here to commit suicide. There were 3 or 4 things that kept me from trying to commit suicide. For starters I wanted it quick and painless and that didn’t leave me very many options. Even if it was quick and painless, I wasn’t sure how it would affect the afterlife. There was also the concern over what would happen if I failed the attempt. I didn’t really give a damn about my parents or how they would feel about it. In a way, I hated them for all the crap I went through in the mental hell system. Anyone related to me that could have done anything to stop the relentless forced “medical treatment” was as far as I was concerned AWOL to the suffering. The people that I had a hard time over looking were the kids. How would my brother’s wife explain to the kids why their uncle Jason killed him self? How in the world is that going to compute for a kid? I kept telling people that getting readmitted and getting more mental hell drugs was just kicking the can down the road. Such a statement consistently rolled off the psych practitioners like water off a ducks back. Finally, I was able to see a functional medicine practitioner who gave me some tests and some targeted supplements. I was able to get OMT sessions. I was also able to see a psych practitioner who lowered some of the drugs. Digging out of the hole of psychiatry is not over but the light at the end of the tunnel has become a lot brighter.

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By: Birdsong

Birdsong — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 22:25:02 +0000

In reply to KateL.

Well said, KateL

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By: KateL

KateL — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 19:32:27 +0000

Thank you for writing this. You are absolutely correct. The system itself is sick.

I wonder how many of the people who disparaged Ter Beek are the same people who make disparaging comments about “borderlines” (which Ter Beek was also diagnosed with) and “the mentally ill” in general. Do these people ever stop to consider what it’s like to seek help and in return receive extremely harmful “treatments”, dehumanizing and hope-destroying labels, and finally a collective shrug from the system that caused so much additional damage on top of the person’s original trauma?

If the public wants better outcomes, it should look to the system itself and stop scapegoating patients every step of the way.

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