I definitely agree with all of you that it's a form of child abuse. However, I'll be out of the house in about July and our only relative (my gandmother) is going to take my sister for a while. My sister has told her counselor about incidents in the past and CPS was called (but no substantial proof) and I believe that just made my mother angry with my sister. I'm really worried about moving out but this seems like a really safe bet right now. [quote=Sere] I am bipolar, and I have received that story countless times. Mother and father do not like it when you talk about suicide because they feel its their bad DNA that made you think that way. My friend, eugenics is alive and well. The more you think about it, we just turn into life stock. Were just animals, nothing more and nothing less. Were just kept alive because someone feels they can make money off from us. [/quote] Isn't that the truth? :P I was just surprised when my mother denied to my sister. My sister was the favorite (and does not remind my mother of the man she hates because different fathers) and she's been in two psychiatric wards (they transferred her to a different one in the middle of treatment so she could see some sort of specialist) and taking medication is part of her freaking outpatient treatment. But yeah. :P [quote=Magic Magnum] Also, society is not a hive mind. We are not consciously going "We want ______ dead. Let's as a society cut them off from help and kill them".Let's leave government and society conspiracy theories to kill people off separate please? They do not relate to suicide or depression.I'm sorry that whatever you experience has caused you to look at all of society under such a light. But that is not how society functions, and treating society/the people in it as if they do isn't accurate and only slows down the rate we can deal with issues like depression and suicide because we are burning efforts fighting something that does not exist. [/quote] Seconded.