On a serious note if I may? It doesn't always come down to labelling something and shoving pills down someones throat, but sometimes medication is necessary. I also used to think the same about kids trying it on, and obviously some do, but once you've had to kick a door in and fight a teenager to prize a knife from their hands, or grab their legs and pull them down when they've tried to hang themselves, you start to realise the true effect of mental health and how somebody who can be laughing and joking one minute can turn at the click and feel like being dead is the only way to stop the pain. Anybody can be surrounded by loving family and friends and yet still feel alone, or all the love and care given to them and yet still think death is the only solution.
Sustained counselling, and then CBT, DBT, psychologists and psychiatrists is always the preferred way, but it can take years to get it escalated to that point because the system is so poorly funded.
I could go into a lot more detail on this about personality disorders and being on a spectrum usually means different traits of several different conditions, making it a lot harder and sometimes impossible to put a definitive label on it, and they often fuels the pain as a very high percentage of teenagers suffering from this are desperate for a label so they know what it is, because many can't explain a cause for why they feel like this.
Standing outside looking in makes that sound crazy but it really is a true problem.
I just wish I could go back in time and shoot all those involved with the creation of social media as for a lot of teenagers its a cesspit of hatred that spurs people on to cause others extreme pain without getting their hands dirty.
I know that's not exactly what you're getting
@silverdale, but just to play devils advocate it is soemthing that exists and can really destroy lives not just of kids, but family and friends around them.
