Given the choice of present-me not existing, or 17-year-old-me spending that year in a mental institution—which could fairly easily have happened if I’d gotten unlucky with a psychiatrist or two—I would prefer the former.
I’m at significantly less risk of that kind of thing coming up now, but I expect future versions of me to agree with this assessment.
It’s probably notable that I’ve read several accounts of peoples’ experiences in institutions and also worked in a nursing home for four years—this is not an uninformed decision. Institutions suck.
Given the choice of present-me not existing, or 17-year-old-me spending that year in a mental institution—which could fairly easily have happened if I’d gotten unlucky with a psychiatrist or two—I would prefer the former.
I’m at significantly less risk of that kind of thing coming up now, but I expect future versions of me to agree with this assessment.
It’s probably notable that I’ve read several accounts of peoples’ experiences in institutions and also worked in a nursing home for four years—this is not an uninformed decision. Institutions suck.