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People need to realise and understand just how much bullshit suicide prevention is.
Because Yes, lets put posters to the suicide hotline a bit everywhere, look, we're only helping!
The suicide hotline! yes ! of course! why didn't I think of that?
All those things are there to make other people happy and fool them into thinking "They're doing a great job helping!"
You're really not.
How about this one? Force them to seek counselling
Ah yes! Because talking about how I feel is going to make my problems go away! Of course
Well, you'll get tools to /cope/ with those things, see -
Oh! but it won't resolve any of the underlying issues, I see, you're only treating the symptoms of flesh eating disease.
Institutionalisation?
Well, how about fuck you Sheryl. Because isolating me even more really is going to help.
But YOU can rest assured that /you did everything you could/! Look! the problem is no longer visible to you! So therefore it must be working!
Pat yourself on the shoulder, you did a great job!
That person surely isn't going to fold into themselves even more than they already have as they just sit around looking at blank walls, waiting for there next therapy session with doctors that are too rushed
or overworked to care or do any good.
It's like facing the corner for "adults". Think nice and hard about what you did! See you in three weeks!
Well, how about numbing him AND therapy?
Listen Maribeth, why do you think that's going to work? Because there's an entire industry around it?
That must mean it HAS to be successful! Everyone! Everytime! Guaranteed!
Surely it can ONLY /help/ those poor depressed souls, because the good doctor and the books say that it works Surely their one follow-up call to re-make an appointment will change everything when they failed to show up
Well, they didn't want to be here, on to someone that actually WANTS to be helped
And the cycle... continues
Surely taking pills to numb me to force me to sit in emotional comatose will
Cure me of my autoimmune disease that will end me prematurally anyways
Find me nice stable jobs that can work around my frequent and random stays at the hospital
Stop jobs from firing me for invalid reasons because of it
And extinguish an innumerable amount of very real fires in my life that set me down this path in the first place
1.
Morris Moss: *picks up flaming fire extinguisher* I'll just put this over here... with the rest of the fire.[1]
2.
Cartoon Dog sitting at a table will the entire room is on fire. Close-up on his smiling face "This is fine."[2]
can't people see why it doesn't work? why I push people away
Even though I really really REALLY don't want to
And it only hurts me even more
permanently scaring the relationships that matter most to me
never able to go back to how things were before
inevitably helping me push myself to take the final jump
when there is no one left around me
when they all finally shut me out
and none of them bother to reach out or care anymore
or know that I finally jumped
I feel stuck, Like an atom stuck on a plateau, trying to Fuse
the only way to unlock my potential energy would be through quantum tunneling
But you need to put outside energy in the system for it to work
The only power that does work, is a firm grasping hand from ones we love the most,
holding on with all their might despite the weight trying to sink ever deeper
And the mightiest of tugs, going through that hill
Holding on, as hard as they can, as they careen down the quantum waterfall in a burst of energy
Not some stupid fucking poster.
and then what?
They leave.
They always leave.
And you're alone again.
Comment by snowsnothing at 05/03/2020 at 11:15 UTC
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Spot on dude this whole concept is being applauded by people who have never been depressed and think this helps.
