Have ever seen that 70's film Harold & Maude?

[wonderbunny]

As a mental health advocate (One who helps people with mental illness, suicide prevention) this film makes me throw up. I can't believe there would be anything remotely funny about depression, mental illness, or suicide. Mental illness is a lifethreatening illness, duh! Thank God we are living in more intelligent times. Imagine if Charles Nash, the genius mathmatician committed suicide? He won the Nobe Peace Prize for the amazing business theory of compromise (win/win solution) Kind of makes you wonder, doesn't it. I'm sure electric shock was not the way to treat that man. I wonder how many brain cells were destroyed in his 'treatment' of schizphrenia?

[quirky]

I think they say....about as many as you kill if you get good and drunk.

I had six of them.

[wonderbunny]

I guess you might be right... I admit, my college days and fraternity dances there was a lot of drinking (games, etc) I just don't equate electrick shock with drinking, maybe I'm naive. I never thought of it that way. Now if you wanted to compare shock with drugs (marijuana, meth, and ecstacy) now that I can relate. Both cause permanent brain damage. I knew a woman with severe depression, and diagnosed with personlity disorder. The doctors said she was permanently disabled. She elected to have shock six times. Incidently, shock treatment is very expensive. A family member of mine in the 50's who suffered from mental illness and (MIA in WWII) the doctor ordered it for him as well. There has to be a better way of treating illness. No wonder so many have died from suicide. Pain is too much, and our knowledge of the suffering is so primitive. How disposable is a human life?

[quirky]

Pain is too much, and our knowledge of the suffering is so primitive.

Correct.

[fluffy]

That's a really tough health area , it's still got a lot of stigma attached to it and it should be seen with as much credibility as physical malaise...... often they are linked..........
I just hope, that if folk are brave enough to go to their Dr and reach out for help, that the Dr takes them seriously and gives them all the help and support they need to get back on a level plane......

fluffy

[quirky]

all the help and support they need to get back on a level plane......

747? Yep...I haven't traveled by plane in awhile.

[fluffy]

oops should that be plain?............och you know what i mean!!

fluffy

but maybe a holiday IS what you need............

[quirky]

Kewl! I made you distrust your own spelling.

[wonderbunny]

Its funny how socially, we have genre's of what is funny and then is becomes socially unacceptible. I guess it called Enlightenment... Someone finally steps up and says this is not acceptible! For instance I happen to think Blazing Saddles was so far off the scale, it was so racist I could barely breath. Yeah, some of it was funny, but I turned it off. I never saw Animal House or Caddy Shack. Then you have a bunch of people saying lighten up, have a sense of humor. Touchy subject, comedy. Pushing the envelope has its limits. Some things are just in poor taste.