What are some anti-suicide platitudes that really grind your gears.

[Forveleth]

The worst platitude for me is when people say a lot of positive stuff and then leave you to decay, as if you are a ghost. After all, the purpose of all the platitudes is to avoid issues, avoid those suffering, and trample over them to get back to their own life. People just don't care about others, they never have. As such, the true platitude is the indifference and apathy underneath their hollow words.

THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS.

I have started making the analogy that it's like someone is standing in the middle of a burning building, ready to die. Instead of coming in with a fire extinguisher or a blanket or water, some asshole walks in and says "You'll be fine. The fire isn't real. This will all work out in the end" and then walks away. People say the few catch phrases that show up on the first page of Google results for "what to do if someone is suicidal" then give themselves a gold star for the day and move on. Everyone does the bare minimum they need to do to pat themselves on the back and don't actually care about the human being who is suffering in front of them.

 

[sisyphean-nightmare]

"You're just going to have to learn to live with it". Something I've heard from mental health professionals several times. "It" refers to suicidality. So their idea is that to be able to live a happy life, you need to learn how to live with wanting to die. Genius. Absolute genius. Good to know what my tax-money is funding.

 

[Jon Arbuckle]

The fact that death is permanent is exactly why it appeals to me, existence for me is the temporary problem because after all everything will be forgotten about in death eventually but this existence can continue for so long with no limit as to how much one can suffer just for them to be tortured by old age which is terrifying to me. Personally I wish for a permanent solution to what I see as the ultimate problem which is existence itself, to me existence just feels like a terrible mistake that just causes so much suffering all for the sake of it, I find it deeply undesirable to exist at all, I'd always prefer to not exist and suicide would be suffering prevention for me, non-existence is the only relief for me but more than anything I wish I never suffered, I wish I was never burdened with this cruel, futile existence.

did this even answer the question?

 

[JustAnotherSadMan]

"It's selfish." GFYS with that bullshit. To even survive as a living thing, you need to be selfish

"You're just going to have to learn to live with it". Something I've heard from mental health professionals several times. "It" refers to suicidality. So their idea is that to be able to live a happy life, you need to learn how to live with wanting to die. Genius. Absolute genius. Good to know what my tax-money is funding.

This is evidence that you can be an idiot and still be a doctor.

 

[L'absent]

Nobody. I don't give a damn what people think or say. I'm only interested in getting away from this hell which, even in the "best" life possible, will always offer a horrible and totally useless amount of pain and suffering.

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

"I believe in you." or some similar trash like that. You believe in me? Why? On what grounds? All I do is disappoint and make the same mistakes over and over yet you believe that somehow one day I'll just never make those mistakes again without dying? Utter nonsense.

 

[milkcarton]

So many have it worse than you.
Stop being so self centered.

This. "Thanks for sharing. I feel so much better about myself now and less lukely to ctb." If you want to dissuade people, then maybe don't make them feel even worse about themselves.