There was an article last week online from an Irish online News site likely referring to this forum and how it's banned in the UK and writing about how this place encourages suicide and it should be banned in Ireland too.
No mention that the people here are here of their own free will. No body here has forced me to be here and no one here is forcing me into suicide. We are all likely living with challagnes that we want to escape from and it's a support group for something that many of use feel so very strongly about.
I see the article all it did was just judge people for being here. There was no research done into why people are seeking this and what brings them to such a low point.
We are all different with different and unique stuff. The challagnes I face include:
- I, female, was born to a mother who is utterly sexist and loves my brothers and just about tolerates me as a female/person/daughter. My mother respects men more than me. She was born in an old Ireland where women were likely treated as scum of the earth and she just carried that on.
- I work so unbelievably hard and my work is in care work. The role and position I have brings some challagnes. Sometimes it is unreal. The longest work day I was forced to do was illegal and 21 hours. I just don't have the courage to target my employers legally because it's a private capacity care work. I used to love what I do but I am broken now. Tired and exhausted and sick.
- as hard as I work I can't even afford rent or a mortgage.
- I live at home with my mother. Said mother who respects men more than me.
- over the past half a decade noticed things that are very very very wrong with my mother. It goes beyond her personality now. There's a lot of behavioural and emotional deficits and dsyfunctions from her. I have years of observations and I strongly suspect a rare form of dementia that can be behavioural based known as FTDbv. I chatted to her gp but I was written off in favour of memory loss. Not all dementia presents with memory loss. Until the later stages of the different dementia and they all mimic each other. So I live with many challagnes from her too. I am an unofficial part time carer for her without a label, a diagnosis and supports.
So there a few different things. All there really.
I see the article just judges people and calls for a ban on this place instead of exploring why people feel so low and exploring how to support people and how minimize suicide by trying to make life easier for people.
Article:
www.thejournal.ie
No mention that the people here are here of their own free will. No body here has forced me to be here and no one here is forcing me into suicide. We are all likely living with challagnes that we want to escape from and it's a support group for something that many of use feel so very strongly about.
I see the article all it did was just judge people for being here. There was no research done into why people are seeking this and what brings them to such a low point.
We are all different with different and unique stuff. The challagnes I face include:
- I, female, was born to a mother who is utterly sexist and loves my brothers and just about tolerates me as a female/person/daughter. My mother respects men more than me. She was born in an old Ireland where women were likely treated as scum of the earth and she just carried that on.
- I work so unbelievably hard and my work is in care work. The role and position I have brings some challagnes. Sometimes it is unreal. The longest work day I was forced to do was illegal and 21 hours. I just don't have the courage to target my employers legally because it's a private capacity care work. I used to love what I do but I am broken now. Tired and exhausted and sick.
- as hard as I work I can't even afford rent or a mortgage.
- I live at home with my mother. Said mother who respects men more than me.
- over the past half a decade noticed things that are very very very wrong with my mother. It goes beyond her personality now. There's a lot of behavioural and emotional deficits and dsyfunctions from her. I have years of observations and I strongly suspect a rare form of dementia that can be behavioural based known as FTDbv. I chatted to her gp but I was written off in favour of memory loss. Not all dementia presents with memory loss. Until the later stages of the different dementia and they all mimic each other. So I live with many challagnes from her too. I am an unofficial part time carer for her without a label, a diagnosis and supports.
So there a few different things. All there really.
I see the article just judges people and calls for a ban on this place instead of exploring why people feel so low and exploring how to support people and how minimize suicide by trying to make life easier for people.
Article:
The suicide forum facilitating the deaths of vulnerable people in Ireland
An online platform, restricted in the UK, is operating freely in Ireland and can be linked to the deaths of at least two Irish people, The Journal Investigates can reveal.
www.thejournal.ie
