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Glaug-Eldare

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1. What would I do?
Thu Dec 20, 2012, 11:46 AM
Dec 2012

Well, it'd look like the Olympic torch relay, but with thousands of people wagging a wand back and forth instead of a torch!

Seriously, though, I really think you make a good point. A suicidal outlook can make some pretty extreme behaviors look like real options, and I suspect a lot of murder-suicides (not just mass ones) result from a person feeling that they can at least punish a transgressor before they go, without facing any (involuntary) consequences. There ain't a magic wand, though, so what do you suggest for improving treatment? One thing I'd like to do is bolster legal protections for those who seek treatment -- that doctor's office should look like (and be) a road to being healed and whole, and not a frightening dungeon where, as soon as you sign your name, you're going to be logged and flogged and humiliated for the rest of your life.

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