Frankly all this talk about mental illness as though it absolves people of personal responsibility makes me sick. People need to be accountable for their actions and mental illness is not an excuse.
There is no such thing as personal responsibility.
From birth to death we are merely organisms reacting to our environments. One second bleeds into the next. No room for personal responsibility. The only explanation for how people act comes from learning what they experienced through their life.
Personal responsibility is an illusion to those who think they make their own choices. Who have found themselves in such luxury as to believe that their successes are somehow their own. Personal responsibility is just meritocracy, a foolish belief that says people get what they merit. It's all cause and effect. Social creatures kept from socializing will develop mental illnesses and become a social. Lashing out.
Point out the personal responsibility center of the brain? Or the personal responsibility organ? Can't find it right? Because human behavior is defined by the nervous system, which is neurons. Neurological paths are worn in through experience. Personal responsibility is the belief that those neurons should just be in some configuration magically. They should somehow conspire to form actions they can't possibly take, why? Because they have not been structured in the manner to make those decisions so they can't possibly.
And what happens if personal responsibility doesn't exist? Well suddenly every single person who thinks like ALPX is a giant asshole. Cause it turns out we are all in this together and if those who need help don't get help they are actually fucked. This means we actually need to help one another instead of expecting everyone to just bootstrap themselves out.
So whine all you want, your beliefs only perpetuate the problem. If we don't help each other then we are fucked.
I am seeking treatment for PTSD, I owe money to our government for student loans that I can't repay because I can't keep employed because of my illness. I am kept at the bottom, barely making ends meet and trying to convince myself to finally end my own life because I hate existing. Sadly personal responsibility isn't a thing so I can't just decide to kill myself, I have to fight my desire to exist. Spending hours talking myself up trying to get that lump in my throat to go away so I can finally get out of this fucking miserable existence. No luck yet and in the mean time I still have to subsist and drag my sorry ass through life. Treatment has been billed at $350 dollars a week. That's out of my pocket not any fucking benefits. I get $600 in benefits if I'm lucky and they aren't revoked for some bullshit reason. I also have several thousand being withheld in EI money because I left work for medical reasons. It's fucking insane to be put through this.
You essentially believe I deserve this, that I should be able to make different choices. It doesn't matter that my illness comes from being beaten, neglected, bullied and abused for fucking 13 years as a child. Where I was suffocated as an infant in my crib, or fought for my life and my siblings lives. It all happened while I was active in Canadian society, no teacher, no social worker or police officer stopped it. There was no family member or adult to prevent the abuse. Being held down and tortured until my screams and pain just bled into a numb white sensation. My fucking nervous system is shot. Sometimes I literally can't calm down to sleep, for fucking days. Do you understand how fucking hard it is to hold a job when you aren't allowed to sleep?!?!!?
I know I need help, I want help but I can't get help.
My choices are suffer immensely every fucking day, or kill myself. That's fucking it.
I'm not alone in having those choices, do you think some people might be a bit fucking bitter when they go to end their lives that they lash back out at the society that put them in that position?
Being mentally ill is hard enough but the way society responds to you is often way worst.