Mental health services in this country are basically non-existent outside of Dublin. Something has to change.

Never felt so alone until I actually tried to get help and was told to wait 6 months. Absolute disgrace.

We need way more funding for the local centres. They keep people alive when the hospital turns them away.

Too many friends lost to this already. Enough is enough.

This is so needed. The waiting lists are a joke and people are just falling through the cracks every single day.

Thank you for doing this. Its about time someone took notice of the real numbers because they are way higher than what the govt says.

Thank you, Sinead, for showing how to take your pain and turn it toward the greater good. Sometimes the problem is not temporary, but there are other solutions. One may always have mental illness, or one may recover -- and there are many means to recover. I am signing to support Sinead's cause and to say that mental illness and suicidal deserves attention -- people think that suicidal people are selfish, attention-seeking (and yes, they *do* need attention so give it to them in the form of compassion and care and love), and many other negative things, things also applied to people who are considered "high-functioning" who have mental illness. We are *blamed* for it. And it is not our fault. We are doing the best we can--seriously. There is a problem in our brains that we did *not* choose, but we live with it every single day. Give us some credit. Being suicidal is an deeply dark, nightmarish, altered state of mind that *no one* can imagine if they have never suffered a suicidal depression. I don't know if anyone will read this, but if you do, please. We are asking for help--and this is a sincerely brave thing to do. We are not selfish. We have an illness/es. Many of us, because of past trauma, childhood abuse, neglect in childhood, feel deep compassion for others because of what we went through and who we are and how we would never want anyone to feel this way--ever--the way we do. However, many of us have severe difficulty feeling love and compassion toward ourselves. Imagine not feeling loved even when you are loved--this is not something we have done to ourselves. So, please. Stop judging us. Stop shaming us. Stop leaving us alone in our pain. Stop institutionalizing us. Stop treating us as a *problem,." We are human beings. We have a lot to offer the world. And sometimes we need help--and it is very hard to get it. And a lot of us end up completely alone, or feeling so--this is so painful, I don't even have words to describe it. We need