There is so much I have to say in response to this, I may just take up blogging myself. To be brief, I will touch on a few things: I have been a long time follower of the Matt Walsh Blog. While I find some of his articles to be completely spot on, to the point, and (dare I say it?) unbiased, this one is far from that. I have also read many of his articles and found them to be nothing but completely biased, closed minded, and ignorant. This blog does not cease to amaze me, coming from him. It is important to remember that Matt Walsh is a man of opinion (and a very strong one at that.) His words are not put here to educate us, but merely to make us think. When reading almost all of his articles, I have found his flow to be that of a man who believes he has some sort of superior mindset above the rest if the world: doctors, therapists, regular, everyday people; it simply baffles me how one person can make such bold statements about a disease, admit to not being able to comprehend, and then say it is wrong. I am in no way condoning suicide, but please, understand that depression is real and if left untreated, it can control your entire life. You loose sight of yourself, and everyone around you. While Matt will tell you this is a selfish act, those who contemplate suicide often see themselves as doing everyone around them a favor. You believe you are no longer important, you dont believe you will be missed, and when you get to the point where you are finally ready to cut all ties and let go, you dont see a happy ending. Suicide is a form of trying to relieve yourself from pain. You see no other way. You know that there are people who will talk you out of it, people who dont understand the extreme amount of negativity you face by no fault of your own on a daily basis. You feel as though there is something wrong with you. You are often told that you just lack ambition and need to get over it. You are scared to talk about the fact that you actually want to kill yourself because then people might think you are crazy, and you will end up in some sort of mental hospital where you spend 24 hours a day surrounded by patted walls, completely and totally alone...suicide sounds like a better option. So you withdraw from people around you, even those you care about, because you truly feel as though they dont really care. You have no motivation because life no longer has purpose. You feel like a grain of sand on the pacific coast: insignificant and useless. Matt Walsh, what I have learned from this particular article of yours was that: 1- there was really no need to read past the description. It honestly only got worse from there. And 2- you do not understand depression to the extent that many people battling it do (because if you did, I believe I would have been reading a completely different article.)
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 20:04:19 +0000
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