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EPISODE · May 9, 2021 · 40 MIN

More love, understanding, empathy and compassion more so than clinical help for neurodiverse and gender diverse peeps

from Bipolar Inquiry · host Andrea

I just finished reading an article online and it talks about this transgender teenager who ended his life in a Correctional Facility and the way the article was written just really bothered me because it's written in the context of hat the teenager had mental health help then perhaps this would have happened and that may or may not be true but the article talked about all the labels that this poor teenager inherited like schizophrenia symptoms borderline personality disorder trauma gender identity issues and just putting all these labels on this poor person who's no longer here and then at the end of the article it says if you're transgender or gender non-conforming and considering suicide call this number I thinking gender non-conforming what does that even mean like that is just the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard like as if somebody wants to call hotline after reading that oh I'm a non-conforming person it's just ridiculous and then the article talks about how this teenager was just granted a clinical help and then a few hours later was found not living and I don't think they yet were able to intervene with the clinical help but it acts like Oh had they just had clinical help everything would have been fine and that is far from the truth I feel like if this poor person got wind that they were going to have extra help that might have given them more impetus to say I don't want that help and this person was in there for lighting their house on fire setting fire to their house that kind of shows like the person's like fu that get away from me parents and then the parents are trying to come at this poor teenager with all this psychological clinical intervention the person's like peace out world it's just such a sad story because it's contorted in such a way that it's like oh well we need more clinical help for these people when it's not true we need more love and more understanding and more empathy and more compassion and daily life not more clinical interventions once somebody's out their wit's end like how did that even get to that point it's just so sad and terrifying it because what people think is help for people is not really that helpful it can be a good temporary band-aid but it doesn't fix anybody's problems I guess I'm just feeling a little bit ger about it because I have to make a choice between staying here and working and and maybe leaving the country for a bit to explore different opportunity and I don't know right now I'm on the path of the job but I don't even know if I feel comfortable working in the job and maybe I do more so on some days than others it's really difficult because I don't know peer support really fits that well within the mental health system it's like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole as its said just doesn't really fit and so am i setting people up for for disaster for failure because I know for myself working in peer support was kind of a failure and a disaster for me and I love supporting people but it's so difficult to support it within a context of something's wrong with the people not something's wrong with the greater whole of things and why do people get to that point and what I shared about that talk I went to her they said well how do you deal with so much child abuse and societal inequalities well you just medicate the people that aren't able to get through it because it's sort of designed so it happens to a large portion of people and I don't know if I want to work in terms of the reaction to something that happens so far down the line and it's putting the blame on the person like to put the blame on a person and say oh they're mentally ill is psychological scapegoating so I'm just having trouble with that today and maybe other things in general and this morning I woke up and I felt like huh maybe I'm sort of done making videos I don't know if anything else is going to really come through me and then I was editing my last two videos and I wrote bunch more stuff

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