I find it F'ing hilarious that some humans on here, having experienced extreme emotions themselves, are incapable of even LEARNING any concept of how they work and how they can affect someone.
How much intelligence does it take to understand that when you are angry, distressed, desperate and never having any peace, you do wish to die, you hate yourself so much that you do wish to maybe even die a painful and slow death. Wishing for that does not mean you are disrespecting those who have the said disease, in my opinion. Especially if you would gladly swap with them and give them your life to use to the best of their ability because you cannot heal yourself.
I get tired of people considering physical illness to be more serious and more painful and debillitating than mental illness, simply because with one, you can see the symptoms more obviously. To me, this is utter and total crap. Many mental illnesses are biologically based and many of these can cause death...and before any smartarse says 'it is someone's choice to take their own life', maybe it is, but if one has a biologically based, serious mental illness...or multiple mental illnesses that cause them to be unable to live even a close to normal and peaceful life, who is anyone to say that they chose to die?
Living with mental illness can be just as frightening and just as painful as living with physical illness, and can be just as out of the person's control.
I am sad that all that is important to some is the wording I used, as opposed to the meaning behind the wording and the obvious distress. I do not care if this is a forum for AS, I am close to someone who was diagnosed originally with LFA and they are perfectly capable of seeing past my words.
It would take many hands and fingers to count the number of similar posts in the Haven by others who have, at a very painful time in their lives when they could see no way to turn, wished they were dead or said they were going to kill themselves.
I would have thought that by now it would be fairly obvious such things are cries of desperation, for some sort of help/support, and for someone, anyone, to see what they are going through, even if they cannot fully understand.
It is human nature to turn to others when in need, and to berate anyone for that is to tell them to have that stiff upper lip and conform to this idea that we must not show any weakness nor need anyone else to support us.
Even if we are not a shrink, even if we are not a doctor, that does not mean we cannot be a voice of reason, or a voice that let's someone know that they are not alone, and that there is some hope out there for them.