It seems to me that a mental health crisis is always the last thing you consider.
Probably somewhat so--but in the same breath, some just put all to that too. Okay, that's what it was, and I do NOT mean you, they drowned, it was a mental health crisis and so on, and more so these days than ever. Case closed. Over. And it is often not the case, that's why I can be like that.
And you are right, to a point. I'm not young and I come from the school of you just get through and do what you have to do.
It may sound dumb and off track but I watch a lot of life and cooking channels, almost all are in their 30s and 40s. A lot of them home schooling, various things. And most of the mom's are on about their own mental health, just had to take a week, etc. and I'm like in my head you have KIDS. Just going through a hard time. Well not sure about you, but boy been there, hard times. And I have a daughter in her 30s and one in her 40s and not all are like that. I don't deny there can be mental health issues but I think a ton of things are easily put down to that when it comes to crime and such. Oh sure she suicided, nothing wrong there, it was her mental health.
So I agree with you that I don't easily go there. I just don't. I'll allow for drugs--but even then no one has proved to me they weren't given to them, forced on someone. I don't believe in closing cases if there is not definitive proof.
AND I trust my instincts even though I've went against them in my life but the older I get, the more I know that.
But yeah, I admit it, I don't often go there-- have mental crises just developed in the last how many years? Mel has said many a time on here you can have such but it doesn't mean you go do this or that. Doesn't make you do this, or kill, or run, etc. And that's where I sit at.
Most of us probably know of someone with some issues or have a family member that has some and so on. I'm not clueless to it. But again, doesn't necessarily mean you don't have a life survival instinct, or you never ever kill someone instinct and so on.
That's why I don't go there much. Not sure if I made sense but it's not an excuse and in the worst situations instinct takes over imo. Been in a few myself. Yeah, I don't go there easily. I don't close the door without answers.