Make no mistake about it suicide is a choice for those who make it. I know it can be hard to understand and hard to conceptualize that someone in that frame of mind can make an actual choice but it is theirs to make. I know that it can be hurtful to those who love and care for that person all too well for it cost me friends and loved one’s more than once in my lifetime.
I have spoke up on several occasions to loved one’s who came to DBSA meetings in my area regarding their suicidal loved one’s. They want to watch over them but I tell them the truth. You can watch over them only for so long till you are worn out yourself and begin to hate that person for putting you in that position. I know it sounds impossible to believe but I have been there and seen the look on their faces sensing what they are thinking, feeling about me personally.
It can seem heartless to let them make the choice but for some it’s a better option than keeping them around making them suffer while their providers struggle to figure out what to do. Locking us up in mental wards doesn’t help honestly it just keeps us in pain that much longer. While they act like we are getting better taking meds and sleeping, attending groups till we tell them what they want to hear to get out.
Once out we go back into the same detrimental world we lived in before and head right down the same path we were already on.
If you have a similar story to tell contact the Senator going after the VA in this particular case Senator Tammy Baldwin.
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