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Let's say you have a very severe psychiatric illness which is bound to get worse with time. It affects every aspect of your life (even speech), and turned you from a sociable person with many friends into a cripple.
Most of the time, you don't even realize you have it. And when you do realize how shitty the situation is, you want to kill yourself.
Do you think that killing yourself is the best option in this case? The only reason I haven't done this is because I know that my parents would feel devastated, as I'm their only child.
I guess life was beautiful while it lasted.
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>>17523983
What illness do you have OP?
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>>17523983
As a schizophrenic, I'd have to say no. Neuroscience is advancing pretty fast. We might see a cure within our lifetimes. It's not so bad if it's medicated, as-is, so I'm just suffering through it.
Bear in mind, though, that one of my paranoid delusions is the certainty that my life is a prison sentence, and if I kill myself I'm just trying to get out of serving my time/break out of jail, because I did something to deserve all this and my pain must be justice
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>>17523995
>As a schizophrenic, I'd have to say no. Neuroscience is advancing pretty fast. We might see a cure within our lifetimes.
No. Stop deluding yourself. There won't be any cure in our lifetime. Not to mention, there isn't even any treatment which alleviates the core symptoms - it only manages acute psychotic symptoms.
The decline in social functioning and intellect isn't treatable.
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>>17524007
you're behind on the literature then I see
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Huntington's Chorea?
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>>17524042
You can stay in your passive-aggressive schizophrenic fantasy all you want. There won't be a cure in our lifetime.
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>>17523983
No, suicide aint even an option. But sitting patiently while watching other people TALK about it until they talk themselves to death over the advisement of your suicide is certainly amusing watch.
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>>17523983
I believe killing yourself is a excuse of sorts. I mean if you think about conception, and how much that one swimmer fought to fertilize the egg to make each individual, then to be carried to term, and survive.
Does that not defeat the purpose Op to just give up? I know you may have to live through some very difficult experiences on a mental and physical level, but maybe that will provide insight on some level by helping yourself or others. Maybe you will grow closer to your family, friends, or people you do not even know yet that have the same disease.
Do not label yourself as a specific disease, and understand a disease does not define you. You as a whole define you. Also, never give up on hope. When you give up on hope- life becomes pointless, and therefore we miss the points we could have made by living our lives and experiencing the rainy days to appreciate the sunny ones.
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