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God has designed us so we often resist change without the help of suffering. Suffering, no matter how great, can't harm us. It is allowed in our life as a catalyst for the fundamental, thorough transformation of our mind, heart, spirit, and life.
God makes the development of the very mind, spirit, heart, and life we want with a cataclysm of pain. He does this when we're enduring our illness, even if we cannot see these g things coming. Mental health, soundness, and fitness of our inner spiritual life await. We must travel by blind faith for many years. A new mental life and health are out there for everyone who won't quit in its pursuit.
God withholds this mind from no one. The most mentally ill person on earth can receive it. We have much to learn about our minds. The most important thing is being in possession of our own minds. Learn to think like Christ. Be able to take thoughts captive, and be willing to guard your mind, choosing what you let in. Such a guarded and protected mind can open in the proper way, upwards, growing in width the higher it goes towards God in Heaven.
Possession of the mind, the cleansing, and control of its thinking, is one of the hardest things a human can learn. It is the key to living a successful, fruitful, and worthwhile life. The suffering of mental illness begins to come to an end when you learn to take possession of your own mind. Even when it is full-blown sick. God can be trusted to create the circumstances that lead you to the moment when your mind can truly become YOUR mind. Once you have possession of it you can begin to heal. If you pursue the life you want to the best of your knowledge of what that is.
Learning to relate to Christ is key, for He is the source of the mind God desires us to have. It's a mind where mental illness has no place, and cannot dwell. One that can be your own. Our suffering is designed to bring us to possess our own minds. and go on to form the mind of Christ in our own mind.
Perhaps the suffering we experience is so great because the difficulty of creating Christ's mind in place of our own is difficult. at least getting to the point where we can is difficult. God may allow such pain with mental illness because He knows that's what it takes to get us to change. All those years of suicidal thoughts and profound mental pain are what must be endured for the reward of a mind like Christ's.