Posted by cubic_me on January 31, 2007, at 4:13:05
In reply to Re: 'Not always a cry for help' - » cubic_me, posted by toojane on January 30, 2007, at 16:07:34
> > although it's strange that after an attempt (before the program) no-one used the councelling services.
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> I don't think it is strange at all. I think the way psychiatric professionals treat you after a suicide attempt is criminal. Try to do those kinds of things to a "sane" person and they'd be jailed so fast their heads would spin.But surely people wouldn't know that about the councelling service if they didn't try it in the first place? I know two people at my university who have used the councelling services after a suicide attempt, it wasn't great, but they tried it.
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> The assumption that if you don't want to have anything to do with them, it MUST be because you are power tripping in some kind of self-important power struggle is laughable.I wasn't assuming that at all, ofcourse, the councelling service may have the reputation from hell. I just found it interesting that no-one went, I don't know the reason why (there could be 100 different reasons)
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> Notice how there is always something wrong with the suicidal person and never anything wrong with the 'service' being offered. If you are selling cookies and I don't want to buy them, generally it's because your cookies suck. So what this guy did was force people to eat his cookies, under threat of expulsion. Doesn't mean his cookies are good. It just means he figured out a way to make people choke them down. The ones who want to stay in university swallow his cookies. The ones who refuse to eat them get thrown out.
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>I understand this totally, but these people hadn't tried (or even seen) the cookies before deciding not to buy them. Although, like I said, perhaps the cookies had a bad reputation.
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