As a parent- I can honestly say I am not sure what I would think.. if my child committed suicide and I found this website. Would I be angry at people? Maybe, probably. It would rip my soul apart even more reading people wishing my child a peaceful journey while they were in the act. But... I would have to accept my child sought the website the website did not go out to find my child. Even if someone wants to stop someone from ctbing- you cant. It's isnt like forum members can call the police or their family. I would be more mad at the therapist my child had- how can a professional mental health provider NOT know how depressed my child was.
My heart goes out to the parents who have lost their children. It truly does. Instead of focusing so much money, time, anger at a website- do something else that can impact MANY others- like society why are so many younger people suicidal now? do something to help change mental health care. The issue is not that a website like this exists- its society is making people choose death, mental health care is a joke in a lot of cases IF someone is even able to get a therapist. As a teenager who was a cutter and suicidal I was the odd ball. I had friends in ohh probably 6 different towns and I was the ONLY one who tried to kill myself and cut. Now as per the survey here in July I think it was like 61% were under 30 here. WHY is it now so common? Thats what has to be addressed- WHY are so many young people feeling life has nothing to offer them. Society MUST change it's getting worse. Mental health care MUST change because it's not working. Thats where the anger, time, money should be spent. Making society aware that younger people who could have the world in their hands feel like death is all they have to look forward to.. Making changes to mental health care so that EVERYONE can get compassionate care.
Thank you. I've read a lot of posts and you seem like a very intelligent, caring and strong person. People who blame this website are so short sighted. It's not like normal healthy people came to this website and became suicidal, they came here BECAUSE they were suicidal due to society and their life circumstance. I know there's a lot of people here from so many different countries, but as an American I can speak out on how absolutely horrible our lack of mental healthcare is. People with mental illness such as ptsd, cptsd, depression, anxiety, etc are seen as broken, unworthy and lesser people. We also have an extremely toxic and hostile work culture that determines peoples worth by their value in the workplace. When people with issues that may inhibit them from performing to our societies toxic work culture, instead of being helped and given resources and help they're tossed aside and ridiculed. Men are told to just "man up and get over it" and they start to kill themselves at unprecedented rates when there's no support and they struggle with their own identities versus what our culture teaches us. (None of this is to take away from women's own unique struggles and points of view, this is simply my perspective of men's unique issues as a man. Not trying to take away from their own unique problems that they also face)
The biggest issue to me is I don't see change happening. I see a status quo being maintained and people actively voting and working AGAINST their own interests because they get caught up in the political circus of distractions and hate. I think a lot of people here, perhaps myself included, could live better lives if only we acknowledged all of this and struggled to make actual change.
Unfortunately a lot of people will continue to blame websites like this, or the individual or other distractions and not take a hard and deep look at the root cause that brings people to this site or makes them a statistic.
