Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me

TW: suicide: A wildly honest and vulnerable first hand account of depression and suicide. The author does a great job of highlighting how neglected mental health treatments have been in terms of medical R&D and advancement and how even the makers of todays antidepressants (essentially the same as those accidentally discovered 50+ years ago). The author also highlights how our general queasiness and reluctance to discuss depression is part of what prevents it from becoming a bigger focus of our care systems and industries. Despite having the greatest disease impact according to WHO we don't treat depression and other mood disorders like we do for cancer. It breaks my heart that so many people who have attempted or thought about attempting to end their life did not reach out for help because they were worried about their honestly getting them in trouble, or upsetting other people. We should not make people feel they need to suffer in silence because we don't like to talk about it or because we don't understand it.

If someone you love deals with depression this book can be a great insight into what their experience may contain or look like. 10/10 recommend