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Originally Posted by loramin
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P.S. I've also had Bell's Palsy once, which is when an infection near a cranial nerve makes half of your face paralyzed for months, sort of like being a stroke victim. With both the Bell's Palsy and my mental illness the exact same thing happened: something went physically wrong in my brain.
But, no one ever said that I was making a choice to have my face paralyzed, or blamed me for my right eye going dry because I couldn't blink.
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Consider a 75 year old woman (my grandmother) who lived a rich and fulfilling life, and stared down the barrel of totally untreatable Alzheimer's disease. Her brain progressively rotted and robbed her of her very humanity before she died in agony, placing an unimaginable financial and emotional burden on her caregivers. She muttered "I want to die" for years, right up til the very end.
If I were ever in that situation I'd kill myself. And it would be the right decision.