re: Doctors Will Euthanize Healthy 28-Year-Old Woman Just Because She’s Autistic

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She recalled her psychiatrist telling her that they had tried everything, that “there’s nothing more we can do for you. It’s never gonna get any better.”

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I read something recently about the surge in mental health issues the past few decades. Essentially in the past 20 to 25 years we as a society have really pushed the importance of mental health where’s in the past people just dealt with it and kept going about their lives. The unintended consequence of this push is that by essentially conditioning people to focus on it, they tend to ruminate on their problems. They think about it, they talk about it, they plan their lives around it. Ultimately it consumes them and as they pour more and more energy into their problems they lose the drive and energy it takes to function on a daily basis.

Not discounting people suffering but there is healing in being active and working towards goals. It’s much healthier to be out there living and accomplishing things than sitting around hyper focused on all the negative aspects of your life.