# Are certain actions worse than suicide?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 1, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-certain-actions-worse-than-suicide/555748 "2010-10-01T17:12:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 17, 2010, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-certain-actions-worse-than-suicide/555748/41 "2010-10-17T00:58:27Z")

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> **Annie X-mas** : He also told me that I would probably be helped by anti-psychotic medication, despite my pastpill addiction and my absolute horror of the slightest chance of future addictionto anything.

Unless this shrink is very familiar with you, he has no business suggesting anti-psychotic medication. That would call for a diagnosis.

Your absolute horror that you might become addicted to _anything_ is not rational. Since you have gone through the nightmare of addiction, I can understand why you might be afraid of taking any medication. But phobias can be overcome _when it’s a good thing_ and one can see a reason for dealing with the phobia.

And I am familiar with how some anti-psychotic medications can cause pain worse than death – if the person taking the medication has been misdiagnosed. I had rather die than experience that again. But some medication can bring relief, not pain, to many people.

I don’t agree with that particular shrink. Maybe he doesn’t know how unbearable pain can be.

But please don’t “off” yourself, **Annie**.

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