I would like to spread awareness about suicidality

[noname223]

The folllowing is what I mean. It is a weird idea but I think a lot about it. I imagine there would be an anonymous survey at my college about suicidality. I had to be sure it was untraceable. I would like to mention I suffer daily of suicidality since almost a decade, therapies have not worked, medication did not fix it (but helped), I will kill myself inter alia because of future poverty. I would like to add the message: The society treats people like me like shit, people are pretty naive about suicidality, there are some people who are persistently suicidal despite trying almost everything, that it is coldhearted to leave these people alone being forced to violent or at least not peaceful methods.

I would be curious to learn how many other students are suicidal. Especially in my courses. And how severe their struggle is. I could imagine I might be one of the illest in my courses when one considers mental illness. However there are probably a lot of high functional people where you really have no signs that they feel shit every single day.

I am not sure what my main goal is with such a survey. Maybe to remind people that they should treat each other friendly, that suicidality can affect anyone and that suicidality is sort of invisible. I often try to hide my struggle in front of other people. And I made real progress to lessen my social awkwardness.

The problem of this hypothetical survey would be: I think my college friends might could rightfully guess who that mental wreck is.

 

[FuneralCry]

It really does seem like suicidal people are treat so badly everywhere in this world, I doubt that some survey would stop people being so insensitive.

 

[Forever Sleep]

I agree- it would be interesting to know how many people are struggling. I quite often think that in work places etc. Sometimes it's obvious but like you say- I expect there are plenty of people who are high functioning but struggling underneath the veneer.

It could actually do a lot of good if people were more open about it and felt less alone in having these thoughts... That's assuming people would be understanding though. It might go the other way- so- if the results are published- people may try to work out who the suicidal are amongst them- and they may not all be supportive... I think all of us fear exposure. I also highly expect they would try and find out who created the questionnaire.

Still- if this society DID actually care about mental health- it should be doing stuff like this. From what I've read about security patrolling suicide spots and the like- some people ARE just desperate to let someone know they're struggling. Why wait until they're hanging off a bridge to find out they're having problems?!! Not everyone will reach out and ring a helpline or whatever. Still- a questionnaire- especially if it was annonymous but simultaneously gave more information on how to get help- might just promt someone to try.

 

[loopdaloop]

A lot of people think that providing peaceful methods of suicide is "murder" and label it as immoral. They purposefully push suicidal folk to use violent methods, they think that whoever truly wants to die would just do it any way possible even if it means risking themselves and others in the process... I guess it's like that to lower success rates and not allow people to exit on their own terms, unless the're really desperate