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Who defines that you ?
I think psychiatry in general would agree with @an anarchist .
"Normal" is a touchy word. My psychiatrist doesn't like using it but sometimes it is the best word to use and he uses it. A psychiatrist would be able to help an individual identify if they are mentally healthy. I certainly don't define it.
I hear the word psychiatry and alarm bells go off to me psychiatry is a militant version of psychology.
Sharing my anecdotal experience, it took me nearly 10 years to get help. And a few years in I'm barely sticking around in psychiatry this time. Hoping to get a year in and then go from there.
Well, I think most people everywhere would agree that if a person is suicidal, there's an issue.
I don't think it's really psychology but physiology. All living things are built to survive, and it takes massive effort to over right that instinct.
Suicide just seems to be a rush into another set of problems when the lights go on with some exceptions of course.
We have two centers of consciousness, the inner self and the ego. The ego tends to be more unnatural and will do unnatural things like suicide and abortion. The inner self is more natural, being a long term product of evolution. You cannot evolve if you kill yourself. You will not be selected unless you find a way to survive. A key lesson of evolution for selective advantages.
Medicine, researchers, people who actually work in the healthcare field and have more exposure to it than you.
Because most of us aren't wallowing in self pitty and we're out their living our lives amd enjoying this precious, sacred time we have.
Not at all. Psychiatrists are MDs who specialize in treating mental illness. A psychologist has a PHd or PsyD amd they most access people and typically don't do therapy (tlat least not much of it) A therapist is most often and typically has a masters degree.
It's pretty cut and dry evolution. People who stay alive make babies and pass on their DNA. People who are dead don't. IOW an instinct to survive is adaptive, and an urge to commit suicide is not.
Strange thing to say.
Both psychiatry and psychology are extremely helpful developments. If you go back to the 1800s, people were imprisoned in the most awful of asylums. The reasons ranged from psychosis to women arguing with their husbands. If someone was depressed due to life circumstances, there was no one for them to talk to. If someone felt compelled to wash their hands every five minutes, there was no relief. If someone heard voices telling them to kill themselves, there was no help for that.