can you tell someone you ctb?

[Y78]

i think like its will be much easier if icould tell a friend
you trying to ctb not for talk and relif but for helping me to ctb
you cant overcome si alone if you have a help thats better

 

[GoodPersonEffed]

Well, that's what many use SS for, as a community of stand-in friends, because irl most friends aren't capable doing what you sek.

 

[faust]

Honestly, that is the thing you should never tell about.
Because you may never know which of your friends will decide to call cops on you.
And eventually you may be moved from one lockdown to another, I mean psych ward
I had a bit different thing. I told my friend I am going to CTB and he started being pro-life and saying that I know nothing about the brain functions.
He was convincing me maybe almost a week so I had to say that were just my thoughts.
Guess who told me yesterday he wants to CTB? Exactly, my friend.
So it is not a good idea. You risk your freedom and maybe even well-being.

 

[Y78]

thats the problam.on one hand you need him.other hand your at risk.
sigh.

 

[faust]

thats the problam.on one hand you need him.other hand your at risk.
sigh.

If something can be avoided, let it be avoided.
It may be very hard for you to be in a psych ward, it is not a resort.
I don't even tell about possible issues with medical bills or any other finances-related issues.
Plus you will notice your friend acts in a different way with you, it maybe another friendship you are used to.

 

[Halnas]

The person you tell has the choice to either do nothing and let you do it or to make one single phone call to the police which makes sure that you don't do it.
You are indirectly making them decide over your life. And if you CTB they will think forever about how they could have stopped you.

What do you expect them to do?
Of course they will try to talk you out of it with the typical pro-life nonsense.

 

[Eridanos]

I completely agree with @Halnas, you shouldn't get too angry with people trying to dissuade you from ctb. Of course they don't understand you but they are doing it because they care about you.

I don't know your situation, instead of letting people know about your ctb plans you should just talk about the way you feel without talking about your plans. Only if you feel completely confortable, and you know the other person can understand you, you should talk about ctb.

 

[TAW122]

Not if you don't want to risk intervention or people prying into your life as well as interrogating and assessing you on whether or not you are a threat to yourself or others. It is one of those things you just don't say (think of it like it's as bad as self-incrimination or confession of a crime that you never committed in an interrogation). At least that's how I see the situation.

I know it can be tempting and feeling like it's a sigh of relief, but this is rather just false comfort and security, meaning that the moment you say something about CTB'ing, hinting at it, or anything that raises a red flag, things will become worse for you, not just with pro-lifers (anti-choicers) projecting their will onto you as well as making your life more difficult than it currently is. Another example is like if you committed a crime (hypothetically speaking) you wouldn't go announcing it to the world, would you? (Rhetorical question).