The Politics of Suicide Prevention
Submitted on December 21, 2011
By David Webb - Wednesday, 21 December 2011
The dehumanizing medicalisation of suffering...diminishes us all. It also contributes to the suicide toll. The most serious consequence of the assumption that suicide is caused by Depression...is that we then stop looking for the deeper causes of why some people choose to die. Instead, superficial, ineffective and often harmful medical interventions have become the first line of "treatment". The massive anti-depressant experiment of the last 20-30 years has been a demonstrable failure...and it's long overdue that we call an end to it.
