suicide

Suicidal man on Next Door Neighbourhood

~ Vickyw

The subject of suicide on the local Next Door Neighbourhood site came up over Christmas, following a post from a suicidal man.

A local suicidal man living nearby felt so ill he spoke of ending his life on the local neighbourhood forum and came up against the typical negative responses.

Guess what? He was blocked and deleted from the site and told that this content was inappropriate for the site. As a mental health blogger and sufferer, although I wasn’t surprised to hear this, I’m furious that people with suicidal thoughts are ignored and treated like dirt.

This brings me to local authorities. Yes, the police again threatened to arrest the man with mental health problems, and he was suicidal! What’s wrong with Devon and Cornwall Police? They appear to either assault people or threaten them with arrest or, in some cases, do both!

So people living in Cornwall with a mental health condition can’t see a GP due to COVID restrictions or the CMHT. The local CMHT only see you for a short while and then refer you back to the GP.

By reaching out for help, you get the “Not in my backyard” response by threatening the police, and we all know how useful most of them are or delete and blocked from the site because it’s not what we want to hear.

To those clueless and ignorant, you never know it could be you or a close family member feeling this way, so think before you judge and act!

Last night a man called me from the mental health charity Rethink. He confirmed that since the pandemic, the number of people suffering from mental health has doubled during the pandemic.

The charity is currently hoping to raise £100,000 towards better treatments for sufferers such as one to one help, once the role of a CPN on the NHS and counselling.

Every time a mental health story is published, the papers think it clever to print helpline numbers. If this worked, we would have fewer or no reports on suicides or how the establishment criminalises mental health.

Let us know your thoughts about mental health and stigma on our new forum.

Taunted for having a mental health illness?

~ Vickyw

mental health bullying

I was disgusted to hear that people find depression and bullying acceptable after a former Eastenders actor revealed in an interview how the public recently taunted his character for having a mental illness on social media.

Danny-Boy Hatchet who played Lee Carter in Eastenders said he was honored to have taken part in the storyline which sees his character pushed to the brink of suicide, bullying at work, resorting to taking out loans, arrested for a raid on his families pub.

However, he said that he was also disappointed to hear that viewers were taunting his character on social media by tweeting comments such as “Lee is so miserable” and “Lee needs to do the unthinkable and own up.”

He said: “If Lee was a real person he would feel even worse than his character.”

On New Year’s Eve, Eastenders fans watched as he climbed on top of a roof and went to jump off before being talked out of it by a lady who was on duty.

https://youtu.be/hKHxxFSl31o

I have personally been a victim of being snubbed and taunted for having a mental illness by several people who have pretended to be my friend and ditched me for being too miserable.

People have even accused me of doing things I haven’t done and called the police on me because I have a mental health illness.

I knew someone at school who used to have bulimia, and I would hear them laughing and egging her on to make herself sick.

It’s disgraceful how sick and twisted this world really is.

Some people joke about mental illness because they don’t know what to say or how to deal with someone with mental health or they sometimes think that tough love can help.

However, mental health issues go a lot deeper than trying to get someone’s attention or trying to get out of trouble.

An article published last month in the Huffington Post says that “Suicide is the leading cause of death of men and women aged 20 to 34, overcoming heart disease, road accidents, and cancer.”

“Men find this particularly challenging, which is why the suicide statistics are increasing, especially for older men with families who feel the weight of financial responsibility and keeping stability.”

Have you ever been snubbed or taunted for having a mental illness? Comment below or tweet @AdminChick #Neverafraidtospeak.