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- Aug 18, 2020
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I have told my best friends and my therapist about this forum. To my therapist I was really careful not to mention the name of this forum. I would be scared he would judge me when reading the media articles. My friends know the coverage and mostly disagree with it.
So if I would talk to a normie about this place I would not mention the name of this forum especially at the beginning.
I would say it is a place where I can vent when I feel misunderstood from people in real life because they never experienced serious suicidal thoughts. This is not seldom. It is a place where I can get feedback about my thoughts and emotions. Many people are compassionate and try to comfort each other because they know how it feels to suffer a lot or being dealt a shitty hand in life. Moreover I can reflect in my own threads about my mental state which helps to stay stable. (the feedback of others help in this case too.)
I am not sure whether to openly say there are also method discussions in this forum. I think many people would be scared about that. Though I told my therapist about that and he was not too shocked. Maybe I would say I think suicide can be an autonomous decision of an adult and that the thoughts of being able to escape this pain one day help me to cope. It gives me reassurance that I have control of the situation which helps to carry the weight of being suicidal on a daily basis.
So if I would talk to a normie about this place I would not mention the name of this forum especially at the beginning.
I would say it is a place where I can vent when I feel misunderstood from people in real life because they never experienced serious suicidal thoughts. This is not seldom. It is a place where I can get feedback about my thoughts and emotions. Many people are compassionate and try to comfort each other because they know how it feels to suffer a lot or being dealt a shitty hand in life. Moreover I can reflect in my own threads about my mental state which helps to stay stable. (the feedback of others help in this case too.)
I am not sure whether to openly say there are also method discussions in this forum. I think many people would be scared about that. Though I told my therapist about that and he was not too shocked. Maybe I would say I think suicide can be an autonomous decision of an adult and that the thoughts of being able to escape this pain one day help me to cope. It gives me reassurance that I have control of the situation which helps to carry the weight of being suicidal on a daily basis.