Some Thoughts on Mental Health
8 years ago
So many people are willing to help someone in a crisis. You see it all the time, someone makes a cry for help, saying they feel depressed or they don't want to continue living. Loads of people go and help when they see that.
But once that passes, everything goes back to normal. How often does that actually do anything, though? So the person keeps on living for another few weeks. But if there's no change, then the circumstances which allow for those depressive thoughts remain, and eventually, you'll end up with the exact same crisis as you did in the first place.
But why aren't people more willing to help when it's not a crisis? If you can make time to help someone when they're on the verge of ending their own existence, can't those same people make the time to help the same person before they get to that point?
Living alone, it's very quiet here. I don't have anyone immediately around who I can just have a conversation with. There are some people who I know online, we talk on Telegram and such, but it feels like I have to extract conversation from them. Everyone is always so busy, and I can understand that. But you'd think, once in a while, someone might actually start talking to me, first?
I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling this way. And so, just how many other people feel like this? Ignored, forgotten, just simply feeling worthless to the world? If those who might feel so depressed that they don't want to continue living are made to feel valued, perhaps at least some of them would feel that life is worth living.
But once that passes, everything goes back to normal. How often does that actually do anything, though? So the person keeps on living for another few weeks. But if there's no change, then the circumstances which allow for those depressive thoughts remain, and eventually, you'll end up with the exact same crisis as you did in the first place.
But why aren't people more willing to help when it's not a crisis? If you can make time to help someone when they're on the verge of ending their own existence, can't those same people make the time to help the same person before they get to that point?
Living alone, it's very quiet here. I don't have anyone immediately around who I can just have a conversation with. There are some people who I know online, we talk on Telegram and such, but it feels like I have to extract conversation from them. Everyone is always so busy, and I can understand that. But you'd think, once in a while, someone might actually start talking to me, first?
I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling this way. And so, just how many other people feel like this? Ignored, forgotten, just simply feeling worthless to the world? If those who might feel so depressed that they don't want to continue living are made to feel valued, perhaps at least some of them would feel that life is worth living.
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