If you would like to refute my assertion that suicide is a by-product of mental illness then go right ahead.
I refute it entirely. I also refute the validity of the mental health model, and the laughable treatments it provides.
The field as it stands is not dissimilar to chanting away the devil, and it has no reasonable scientific basis for diagnosis let alone treatment.
I'd expect that having kids marked out as suicide risks based on a mental health assessments will be a futile exercise in labelling; at best achieving very little, at worse simply increasing someones sense of alienation.
Probably better to stick with what we intuitively know works, strong family and community ties, good culture, mutual respect, playing sport etc etc.
Certainly better than f**k arsing around with dipshit clinicians hell bent on putting 'at risk' kids on preventative doses of anti-psychotics (proposed by Pat McGorry of all people, and he was widely laughed at by his own profession for attempting to trial unscientific, undisprovable bullshit).
Don't tackle bullying, tackle the root cause - mentally ill people. Good luck with that. When you have a cure, let us know, we can stop youth suicide in its tracks and leave bullying for the harmless fun it is?
Idiot.
