Suicide

Worse. In my vast experience. When I finally after 30 years of wrong diagnoses was correctly assessed I spent a full year in isolation just getting off all meds. 24 tabs a day. There was a really great voluntary group called "Involuntary Tranquilliser Addiction" who I learned from on the phone. The doctors knew NOTHING so I kept getting prescritions lest they just stop everything suddenly ( NB when I was clear I parcelled up all the meds and sent them to an overseas medical charity) The vicious headaches that literally felled me to my knees lasted many years afterwards. As soon as I was clear i left the UK permanently and they cannot here access my records without my permission. I had excellent legal help with it all.

Now I get the pain relief I need. Period. I take nothing unless I know exactly what it is and the risks etc My body. My choice. Have refused a few things. Nearly 80 and going for long life!

There is so much skilled info online now. And trust me that there are times with this incurable illness I have been tempted. Oh and been offered illegal drugs as being " better" then prescription meds.

I did not say that and never would.. Shameful accusation. I am permanently housebound and in isolation and there is help available and you can give help also. Did you seek out folk needing contact? There was a lot of help out there. It was and is a hard hard time. Suicide is never acceptable but is in the end a personal choice. And that statement is not "victim blaming"

Signing off on this. All has been said .

NB there are resources and numbers etc here on boards ie... Thank youi boards ie! Great folk....If you need resources, they are there

.Oh one thought occurs re stats. In past decades there were far far more mental hospitals/bed than now.

Wondering how this affects the stats re sucide.

In eg Sheffiedl in the uk where I knew the scene well, there was a huge mental hospital ( Middlewood) and a separate clinic for less serious cases. Whitely Woods.

Now both those are long closed and there is a ward in a general hospital only.

Certainly is not that fewer folk are encountering mental health problems as this thread shows and this could affect stats re eg suicide.

It's the same here all the large mental hospitals are closed now too. And mental hospitals are on wards in general hospital here also.(Well the majority are, there are still a few purpose built one)

The reason they had large mental hospitals years ago is once you were admitted it was very difficult to get out. You get put in and you were nearly there for life.