Posted by SLS on December 18, 2013, at 0:15:18
In reply to Re: should we have the Right To Die?, posted by alexandra_k on December 16, 2013, at 22:45:47
> cases of depression / anorexia etc are hard. cases of mental anguish / pain / suffering. it can be hard because when you are in the midst of it it can feel like things have never been any different and will never get to be any different. all there is is the eternal, horrible, now.
I agree.
That is an incredibly accurate insight that I needed a doctor to teach me.
> but often the depression does lift. eventually. i guess that is why doctors are reluctant to treat this similarly.Yes. However, some people develop Major Depressive Disorder that is expressed as a chronic, unmitigated, treatment-refractory depression that lasts for decades. The same is true of Bipolar Disorder, although the onset of illness is substantially younger (even in young children).
How do you judge judgment?
If someone is in the midst of a major depressive episode comorbid with ALS, and wanted to hasten death, how would you judge their decision? What if there were no ALS?
Heavy-duty.
- Scott
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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