I have been thinking about how to word something like this for awhile.
Many people including myself came to SS to talk without fear of involuntary commitment. Our society punishes people for admitting suicidal thoughts. Something I learned firsthand at 17. It actually is what lead me to this site as I had no suicide plans beforehand. I used to lurk at r/legaladvice and horror stories similar to mine were posted all the time. They kidnap you (that's really what it is phenomenologically) and then charge you for the "help". This was a traumatizing experience to me and pretty much everyone else I talked to. A close friend of mine says the memory of her "hospitalization" brings her chills. For me it makes me want to smash something, remembering how powerless I was.
Most of us were told that we deserved this trauma, we don't receive any sympathy for other people. The only place people didn't blame us was on SS. The only place you can talk about how you feel without the threat of being locked up is here. If prolifers didn't want us to make our own community, they shouldn't have created the motivation to do so. There are books that give suicide instructions, other websites even. The reason SS is the most visible is that we're a community. A community that supports each other without any threats. There is no walking on eggshells here.
People will always try to avoid violence being enacted upon them.
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