the general public has no clue on suicide... they think you're absolutely crazy

[xXSufferingXx]

i've noticed this ignorance.
i see many articles and videos where they say stuff like:
"how do you prevent suicidal thoughts?"
it sounds like they think it's just a disease that pops up out of nowhere.
it's a natural reaction to excessive unbearable pain.
so the question should be: "how do you prevent getting to the point in life where suicide starts seeming like the only escape?"

i know that's a much longer title, but i'm sure it could be shortened and still convey the same message lol.

and the disgusting same old "suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem" makes me puke.
who told you it was a TEMPORARY problem?
do you know all people's problems and whether they are permanent or temporary?
.
this is also the reason why as soon as you get honest about suicide to your doctor,
they will lock your ass up in the nut house.

 

[SatinSoul]

People who have never been in this position will never really grasp what it feels like. David Foster Wallace had a great way of explaining this situation:

"The so-called 'psychotically depressed' person who tries to kill herself doesn't do so out of quote 'hopelessness' or any abstract conviction that life's assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire's flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling 'Don't!' and 'Hang on!', can understand the jump. Not really. You'd have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling."
― David Foster Wallace

 

[sadsillygoose]

i've noticed this ignorance.
i see many articles and videos where they say stuff like:
"how do you prevent suicidal thoughts?"
it sounds like they think it's just a disease that pops up out of nowhere.
it's a natural reaction to excessive unbearable pain.
so the question should be: "how do you prevent getting to the point in life where suicide starts seeming like the only escape?"

i know that's a much longer title, but i'm sure it could be shortened and still convey the same message lol.

and the disgusting same old "suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem" makes me puke.
who told you it was a TEMPORARY problem?
do you know all people's problems and whether they are permanent or temporary?
.
this is also the reason why as soon as you get honest about suicide to your doctor,
they will lock your ass up in the nut house.

Might be because most people think suicide is just a mindset problem and not something that is a result of external factors. Like they think its some teenager who thinks "im so sad" when their life is just mediocre and doesnt put in any effort, instead of thinking about it as a person that has been through a lot of shit and is just tired of life.

I also hate how they talk about it as something that can be cured and you will never get it again. Like some magic pill you can take and never be sad ever again.

Idk why the only solution to this issue is to lock people up in a place with stragners and away from their friends and family and then charging you insane amount of money for it. Like who tf even thought that was supposed to work? All thats gonna do is make that person hide their feelings and not trust anyone.