Suicidal?

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Results and recommendations
Your screening results indicate a high likelihood that you are suffering from severe depression.
Your answers also show you might be at risk for harming yourself.
You are advised to see your doctor or a mental health professional immediately for a complete evaluation - or dial "911" - or the HOPELINE at 1-800-SUICIDE - or go immediately to the nearest hospital Emergency Room for an evaluation. This screening is not a substitute for a complete clinical evaluation.
The good news is clinical depression is a very treatable illness. Almost everyone who receives appropriate treatment can soon feel better.
The depression-screening.org web site is NOT designed to respond to suicide crisis. If you believe you are at risk for suicide, dial "911" or go immediately to the nearest hospital Emergency Room for an evaluation. Locate a suicide crisis center in your area through the Kristin Brooks Hope Center's National Hopeline Network.

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Ya know, I find these "test" kind of funny, both humorous and ironic, because I must have taken test like this, or similar ones, nearly a hundred times since I have been online in March of 2000, and every single time I get responses like the one above. I've varied how I respond, such as thinking about my response to each question.... and also answered as quickly as possible without thinking, using a more unconscious thought process to see if my results would be different, but every time, I get the same thing. I always answer the questions truthfully, as some people know, being labeled insane just carries to much of a stigma to make lying worth it, plus... liars just annoy the hell out of me. Makes me wonder just how long I can keep going on like this, how i've managed to last THIS long, and causes me to think about just how many "borrowed" days I have already been living on. It angers me at just how truly messed up our healthcare system is in the United States, when one can take hundreds of such test online, but if you are poor, and need help, the only help that is really available is medication, because in most states in the U.S., funding for Mental Healthcare has been cut so drastically, that therapist barely have time to see patients who may pose a danger to others, and those who pose a danger to themselves just don't rank high enough anymore. It makes me feel even more hopeless since the "normal" people can't even get their priorities together enough to come close to even handling the situations that are truly important in this country, and we are off "sticking our noses" into the business of other countries who obviously don't want us to be there. Whoever said life is grand..... must have been on some really great drugs, that's all I can say.



Just my thoughts.


......... Me