As a blogger with a diagnosed mental health condition I feel that it is incumbent on me to pass comment in a blog post on the tragic events of last Tuesday. I posted the meme below on Facebook & Twitter on Wednesday without thinking how appropriate it was for the situation regarding Andreas Lubitz. The link above is the most compassionate observation and the link at the bottom, the least compassionate. The middle link is about the victims. As people with a mental health diagnosis we can either play the victim or the survivor. Unfortunately in this case, there were no survivors but Andreas Lubitz was the victim. A victim of the world that Robert Tansill Oliver is angry with. I am wondering whether we should all be angry with the world instead of just watching the news. Shouldn't we all be grieving now? We could have been one of the victims or we could have been the pilot. Information came out very quickly on this tragedy as opposed to the Malaysian Airlines loss of last year and this voice recorder, we are told, points to a suicide mission. Suicide is anger with the world, turned in on itself! In this case, Andreas took 150 of the world with him. What intrigues me is that the question asked immediately was "Is this a Terrorist incident or is this an act of Religious Fundamentalism?" The question I want to ask is why aren't these cases of Mental Health? A philosophical question perhaps but what if torn up 'sick notes' were found in the cockpits of the aeroplanes that flew into the twin towers. 'The terrorists should not have been at work today because they were feeling angry with the world'. Feeling angry with the world has now been medicalised. 'Depression'. In the light of these events shouldn't depression now be criminalised? You are not allowed to feel, sad, empty, angry. If a Captain can leave the cockpit and go to the toilet, why couldn't you leave a robot alone to fly the plane. Andreas Lubitz was no robot. He was a living breathing human being, as are you and I and as were the passengers on that plane. I'm not a conspiracist usually but in this case, I thought that everything had been done and dusted too quickly. We are told that there is no such thing as society, the individual is everything, therefore in this case, we blame the individual. We cannot blame Lufthansa and the Airbus A320 because they have a reputation to maintain and an economy to pursue.
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