It's been a while now recommending a suicide prevention hotline, psychologists or psychiatrists has largely become synonymous with absolving oneself of responsibility.

A move by those who seek to protect themselves rather than others, and who lack the courage to tackle the problem at its root. It’s a structural problem, so entrenched precisely because ordinary people don’t even grasp how serious it actually is.

They make assumptions: Mental suffering? Go see a psychologist. Call the suicide prevention folks. Problem solved. Done and dusted.

There is no shortage of evidence and reports demonstrating that this is ineffective and harmful.

And the person who suffers the most is that one depressed individual who has already tried everything over and over again and continues to hear exactly the same things from others, as if they were what? Deaf or stupid?

Now, we no longer directly say that depressed people are lazy, that it's their fault. What we do today is give a generic recommendation that people have heard thousands of times and be surprised when it doesn't help at all.

When people understand that it is thede people who end up killing themselves, and not those who are actually able to benefit from conventional treatment, the suicide epidemic will finally end. Will that ever happen?

The truth is, no matter how brutally useless psychologists can be for me, whatever the method, even though I was willing, motivated and often desperate for help, all I ever hear is that same old line, "seek a psychologist.", "call de prevention hotline."

Hardly anyone or anything ever bothered to even listen to my words before immediately firing off that stock, empty answer, which over time became synonymous with scorn. With everything I said at the start of this post.

The only I'm writing this is because I carry a very strong feeling of resentment about all of this, but also to bring understanding to some people.

I hope that you, reading this, have the least bit of empathy, and try to communicate to other people. Otherwise this whole matter will keep being neglected, because what's bad and everyone knows it, it's already being fought against. What's bad and no one knows it, and even continues to replicate the very bad action, is what is actually destroying our society from the inside out. Thank you.