Posted by one woman cine on January 31, 2007, at 7:47:00
In reply to Re: 'Not always a cry for help' - » cubic_me, posted by toojane on January 30, 2007, at 16:07:34
> > although it's strange that after an attempt (before the program) no-one used the councelling services.
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> I don't think it is strange at all. I think the way psychiatric professionals treat you after a suicide attempt is criminal. Try to do those kinds of things to a "sane" person and they'd be jailed so fast their heads would spin.
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> The assumption that if you don't want to have anything to do with them, it MUST be because you are power tripping in some kind of self-important power struggle is laughable.
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> Notice how there is always something wrong with the suicidal person and never anything wrong with the 'service' being offered. If you are selling cookies and I don't want to buy them, generally it's because your cookies suck. So what this guy did was force people to eat his cookies, under threat of expulsion. Doesn't mean his cookies are good. It just means he figured out a way to make people choke them down. The ones who want to stay in university swallow his cookies. The ones who refuse to eat them get thrown out.
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>I'm sorry you feel this way - that's not the feeling I took away from the article.
"I think the way psychiatric professionals treat you after a suicide attempt is criminal. Try to do those kinds of things to a "sane" person and they'd be jailed so fast their heads would spin."
This statement you made is a big assumption and generalization.
I posted the article because it spoke of community, accountability and how to reduce the completion of suicide. It was an alternative view of a difficult subject.
"The assumption that if you don't want to have anything to do with them, it MUST be because you are power tripping in some kind of self-important power struggle is laughable."I don't think this statement is fair either. I find nothing funny about suicide and the attending issues.
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