Wow, I'm gobsmacked by the original post and by some of the ones that followed.
The following is from a column you can find at the link below:
The power to hurt or to help During my most desperate times I wanted to die. Not because I truly wanted to be dead, but just because that seemed like the only way to make it all stop and get some peace.
If someone had told me 10 years ago that what I was experiencing was “all in my head” or to “snap out of it” or simply to “stop worrying”, I would have been devastated. Now I just hope that one day doctors will discover a cure for stupidity.
To those who don’t “believe” in mental illness, you have no idea of the power that lies in your hands to hurt, or, if you educate yourself, to do good.
Instead of repeating tired old mantras about “getting out the house” or “pulling your socks up”, you have the capacity to choose understanding, acceptance and empathy; to reach out into someone’s fog of despair and hopelessness, show a bit of compassion and, just maybe, help save their life. https://inews.co.uk/opinion/columnis...ful-ignorance/