RottingMentalIago
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Suicide hotlines might be effective for a teenager who is thinking of killing himself during a hormonal mood swing if he’s living an otherwise good life. Studies have consistently shown that teen suicide is frequently impulsive, rather than a response to life altering triggers.
For an adult, simply telling someone “think of your family”, “you have hobbies which you won’t be able to continue with if you end it” and “there are better times ahead” doesn’t work.
Adult suicidres are usually the product of real life stressors. A man is divorced, his wife got the house and half his bank account and his life’s work is now over. A healthy sporty active Chad is diagnosed with a degenerative disease. A person’s business has just gone bankrupt. A person has become homeless. A person has developed a disease that will cost a lot of money in care fees and wants something to be left for their loved ones.
Or like many of us a person has never had a life to begin with and unlike us they have given themselves permission to end the life they no longer want.
A suicide helpline can not help adult suicide which is “catastrophic life event” based rather than emotion or mental based. They can’t assist you with the actual trigger event/s. All they can do is offer empty platitudes.
In the example of the person wanting to leave something to their loved rather than be a selfish boomer prick and spend it all on their care, telling them to think if their family might even ENCOURAGE suicide.
I’m sick of the way we have to flap our hands and pretend that these mindless bureaucrats reading identikit platitudes are helping people who’s suicide ideation is based on catastrophic life events.
These hotlines can’t help you overturn the divorce court order if your wife and her new boyfriend divorce rape you. These hotlines can’t help you cure an irreversible disease with degenerative qualities. These hotlines can’t give you your house back. These hotlines can’t give you your business back. These hotlines can’t give you the money to pay for your care rather than bankrupting your estate and leaving your beneficiaries in debt. These hotlines can’t give you the love you never had.
They can talk because they’re being paid to pretend to care.
But when you hang up nothing changes. It’s the same shit.
These hotlines are a waste of money and don’t achieve anything great.
For an adult, simply telling someone “think of your family”, “you have hobbies which you won’t be able to continue with if you end it” and “there are better times ahead” doesn’t work.
Adult suicidres are usually the product of real life stressors. A man is divorced, his wife got the house and half his bank account and his life’s work is now over. A healthy sporty active Chad is diagnosed with a degenerative disease. A person’s business has just gone bankrupt. A person has become homeless. A person has developed a disease that will cost a lot of money in care fees and wants something to be left for their loved ones.
Or like many of us a person has never had a life to begin with and unlike us they have given themselves permission to end the life they no longer want.
A suicide helpline can not help adult suicide which is “catastrophic life event” based rather than emotion or mental based. They can’t assist you with the actual trigger event/s. All they can do is offer empty platitudes.
In the example of the person wanting to leave something to their loved rather than be a selfish boomer prick and spend it all on their care, telling them to think if their family might even ENCOURAGE suicide.
I’m sick of the way we have to flap our hands and pretend that these mindless bureaucrats reading identikit platitudes are helping people who’s suicide ideation is based on catastrophic life events.
These hotlines can’t help you overturn the divorce court order if your wife and her new boyfriend divorce rape you. These hotlines can’t help you cure an irreversible disease with degenerative qualities. These hotlines can’t give you your house back. These hotlines can’t give you your business back. These hotlines can’t give you the money to pay for your care rather than bankrupting your estate and leaving your beneficiaries in debt. These hotlines can’t give you the love you never had.
They can talk because they’re being paid to pretend to care.
But when you hang up nothing changes. It’s the same shit.
These hotlines are a waste of money and don’t achieve anything great.





