Curious to peoples thoughts about a mental health thread?

I wouldn't mention that cesspit either.

Why not give one a shot though... DEWIT.

@contracommando
Your position is morally justified. The only problem is that not all blabbermouths can be dealt with brute force because morons can get elected apparently and then they have military backing them. This is basically where "might makes right" can turn on some of its proponents. As it happens physical capacity and moral standing are not necessary correlated.

But it's good when morons actually get what they deserve ofc, and I do support vigilantism to limited degree (boundaries have to exist though, otherwise vigilantism can lead to some grave errors).

! Since the topic is mental health, I wanted to remind that sanity and mental health are not actually synonymous. The capacity to tell an apple from a banana or pay due respect to gravity is not equal to inner well-being. A person can have mental issues without becoming detached with reality or posing threat to oneself/others. In this case, they deserve freedom as much as everyone else. Also, merely thinking about how someone deserves to die without contemplating to actually kill them (you know, preparing and executing an act in real life) does not constitute a threat and is of no concern.

it would be cool if people used the emotional support thread more often. its ok to not be ok.

Wanting to beat the fuck out of people even when you think they deserve it is not a good headspace to be in. You can trace those feelings back to the source if you talk about it and youll be able to manage it a little better so you dont feel on edge all the time and just be at peace.

I presume you mean when one is really visualising the act of beating those people themselves, and going over and over this desire in their head while adrenalin or anxiety is pumping through the body without release, because otherwise there is no problem. Then I want to make this clear: longing for huge social gatherings but being unable to attend them because of restrictions is the same mental experience as the one you're describing. It's like an endless empty loop on a short circuit. And yet no politician who is making such restrictions takes this suffering into account.

Even some people on this board think saving lives excuses causing mental turmoil en masse. Which means mental health - and why there shouldn't be stigma attached to it - does deserve to be talked about. Specifically the importance of preservation of mental health needs to be talked about, which means why it's NOT adequate to save people lives (looked through the binary alive-or-dead) by introducing restrictions that cause ongoing mental turmoil in significant part of population. When putting "save lives" on one side of weighing scale, protecting mental health must be put on another. Saving lives must be recognised as a conditional decision, that is NOT taken when other things are compromised to such a great extent.

And no, emotional support thread is not going to cut it.I wrote a post on it on the subject back then, but even the person who replied talked about "pandemic" when I was suffering because of measures introduced to combat pandemic, not the pandemic itself.

COVID-19 pandemic itself didn't touch me in slightest. The political response to it did, and the damage is catastrophic.