How has being suicidal affected your political opinions?

[Loaf of bread]

I assume most users of this forum are suicidal, or have been in the past

How have your political opinions changed before and after being suicidal?

 

[Alexei_Kirillov]

Interestingly, I think it has made me more libertarian; I used to be a lot more in favour of state intervention, even in people's personal lives--for example, I supported lifetime smoking bans on everyone born after a certain year--, but my experiences of being forcibly taken to the hospital by the police for my suicidality and of being involuntarily held in a psych ward (two separate occasions) made me rethink that stance. I now think we should give people a pretty wide berth when it comes to self-harm, up to and including CTB. The approach should moreso be based on making sure people are able to make informed choices about their own health. But if they weigh up the pros and cons and still decide that it's a worthy pursuit, that's their prerogative imo.

 

[EvisceratedJester]

Being suicidal has never impacted my political opinions before and why should it?

 

[SVEN]

They haven't. I still believe the majority of professional politicians are too inadequate to make much of a living outwith politics, so they seek an enviable style of living & retirement at the public expense whilst inflicting their opinions on the rest of us.
All except, of course, for the political zealots who are so certain that they are correct that they'll subject anyone (except themselves of course) to any privitation in order to inflict their idea of social utopia on us.

 

[TheHolySword]

It hasn't. I just don't have the time, patience, or energy to care anymore.

 

[Shadows From Hell]

I pay as much attention to politics as I do my ex-wife.... NONE.

 

[mahoganylvr]

tbh one of the only things that gives me hope is community activism, community political engagement, and reading political theory. for me, my suicidality has forced me to cherish the small things in life and to be more empathetic to the people around me. i want to be a part of a world where everyone, by virtue of simply being alive, has access to safe housing, good food, clean water, and people that love them. i want to be part of a world where it is okay to slow down, think, feel, and live, not merely survive. i think politics, especially leftist politics that move beyond capitalism, is the best avenue for that. :3

 

[amaluuk]

It's made me more anti-natalist I think, at least the source of my mental illness. Hard to appreciate life when you don't have a very good frame of reference for it. Upset at potential-and-becoming parents more than I am at their kids who can't help it. Thoughts that can't really go anywhere good but I just live with anyways. Such is life.

 

[Lo$t95]

No opinions anymore… Deleted social media 3 months ago and never watched the tv/news past few years. I have no idea whatsoever what's happening in the world and it's really starting to help me concentrate on CTB.

Unfortunately it also means I am drinking a lot which has caused a lot of problems for me.

Pros and cons ig.

 

[Agon321]

I started to care less about the state of the world. Honestly, a big part of me even wants the world to burn because that would be kind of funny.

I'm tired of being attacked by negative information from all over the world. Live, die, whatever. I care less and less.

 

[Yoñlü×]

I started to support a smaller state, to be honest, I think that without the state everything would collapse, but at the same time, I feel that it is the cause of all these evils, I am a libertarian in general, but I still think that the The state is necessary for the maintenance of something closer to what we can call "justice", as we know that true justice does not exist. I feel that people should have a good amount of freedom, especially when it comes to their own lives, whether they want to live or not, euthanasia should definitely be legalized, I think it would make society more harmonious and peaceful in general .

 

[Kanoh]

I used to be pro-life for quite some time. After years of suffering, needless to say I'm definitely not anymore.

 

[thronesick]

honestly i appreciate this election bc i just needed a 13th reason