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Fr2
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- Jun 15, 2019
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Hi,
I don't know about you, but every time I google something related to suicide and I receive the eternal "There is help for you, call ... " and similar links, I am really pissed. Suicidal people, every single one, have real, so often very tangible, humanly solvable problems. Even in the cases in which it is all only mental/emotional, still very often the problem is tangible and obvious, and ALL that is offered as "help" is some cheap, worn out, meaning nothing motivational advice or pseudo-listening, or dumbing down, poisoning medication, if you pay. I think for thousands and thousands of people real true help is possible, if only the "comfortable feeling people" cared to shift a little bit the dynamics of the society to embrace mental pain as real. At this point it looks like it is successfully labeled as real, and they feel all smug about how open minded they are, but as long as a person didn't get the goosebumps when thinking about the mental suffering of someone else, that means understanding didn't happen. (Yeah, some kinds of help are not feasible in the current state of things, I get that, the creation and transformation of societal structures takes time, resources etc, but say it as it is: "sorry, can't help you, see you next life, or come again in 10 years", but not this joke of pretending (and believing?) to offer help when there is None, that is insulting).
Returning to my question. Is there something real (and what is it?) that could be done for you personally, material, emotional, you name it, feasible in the physical reality, that could wipe out your suicidal thoughts, that could at least give you hope, make your heart lighter, make you feel like definitely postponing the suicide?
Rephrasing a little bit, what would you dream of hearing when calling a suicide help line?
(Please forget for a moment about the existing structures, think outside of that)
I don't know about you, but every time I google something related to suicide and I receive the eternal "There is help for you, call ... " and similar links, I am really pissed. Suicidal people, every single one, have real, so often very tangible, humanly solvable problems. Even in the cases in which it is all only mental/emotional, still very often the problem is tangible and obvious, and ALL that is offered as "help" is some cheap, worn out, meaning nothing motivational advice or pseudo-listening, or dumbing down, poisoning medication, if you pay. I think for thousands and thousands of people real true help is possible, if only the "comfortable feeling people" cared to shift a little bit the dynamics of the society to embrace mental pain as real. At this point it looks like it is successfully labeled as real, and they feel all smug about how open minded they are, but as long as a person didn't get the goosebumps when thinking about the mental suffering of someone else, that means understanding didn't happen. (Yeah, some kinds of help are not feasible in the current state of things, I get that, the creation and transformation of societal structures takes time, resources etc, but say it as it is: "sorry, can't help you, see you next life, or come again in 10 years", but not this joke of pretending (and believing?) to offer help when there is None, that is insulting).
Returning to my question. Is there something real (and what is it?) that could be done for you personally, material, emotional, you name it, feasible in the physical reality, that could wipe out your suicidal thoughts, that could at least give you hope, make your heart lighter, make you feel like definitely postponing the suicide?
Rephrasing a little bit, what would you dream of hearing when calling a suicide help line?
(Please forget for a moment about the existing structures, think outside of that)
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