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i like the term "gallows humor" because it always makes me think of someone getting sentenced to death and being like "i have GOT to be the funniest person at my public execution"

valtsv

wuntrum

i am nooooot locked the fuck in. im locked the fuck out. call the locksmith

oliviawebsite

one william dollars isnt even that much money anymore due to the flation

murraysiskind-deactivated202511

It’s so crazy that suicide prevention is just people going awwww don’t!! Awwww come on noooooooooo stopppppp

allhailklisz

yokelfelonking

One of the best ones I saw was a thing noting that every single one of the few survivors of suicide jumps off of the Golden Gate Bridge realized, on the way down, that the problems they were killing themselves over actually were fixable or could be worked through...except for the now - extremely unfixable - problem of gravity.

authortobenamedlater

Went to the Holocaust Museum in DC once. There was a video interview of an Auschwitz survivor who said he and some other prisoners stayed up all night with a man who wanted to kill himself. The man didn’t kill himself and survived to liberation.

In the video the survivor said “Never seek a permanent solution to a temporary problem. And they’re all temporary problems.”

Hearing that from a guy who survived the Holocaust rewired my brain a little bit.

drgrlfriend

I think something a lot of people don't understand is that depression is not suicidality, and suicidality is not depression. People can, and are, depressed without being suicidal, and sometimes suicidality peaks as people are emerging from depression. Suicidality is a wave, and the trick is to allow that wave to crest and subside WITHOUT acting on it. Whatever it takes to ride it out. For some people that's distraction, like watching television. For others it's calling a friend -- not to talk about the suicidality, but just to talk. For others it could be as simple as going to sit in a coffee shop or library, because the presence of other people is a huge diminisher of suicide risk. That's what suicide safety planning is about. It's like having any other type of emergency plan, like a plan for fire or evacuation. It's making a plan when you are in the frame of mind to do so, so that you can just DO the plan without having to think about it when the occasion arises. When you're in the midst of suicidal ideation, or even intent, you're not in a problem-solving mood. So knowing past!you, with the help of a therapist hopefully, came up with the plan and all you have to do is follow up until the wave crests and subsides, is what allows you to see another day.

ETA: Here's a link to a safety plan. https://www.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/988-safety-plan.pdf

lolotehe

Have to agree with prev here and say that coming out a deep depression can be when that person now has the energy to do what they may have been thinking about the whole time.

Mental illness is an abusive partner, and leaving an abuser is the most dangerous time. An illness will decide that if they can't have you, no one can.

I must also ask you to read a text from someone who couldn't escape their abuser. Farewell My Sweet Juggernaut (PDF) is one of the most heartfelt, pained, and funniest notes left behind and a testament to what the world lost when he lost that fight. (Also available on Amazon for some reason.)

I know it seems an odd thing to ask someone to read a suicide note as a way of preventing suicide, but to get into that wonderful, beautiful, brilliant, talented, kind, suffering, exhausted, despairing head if only for a few minutes... Knowing what was stolen from all of us (and not his fault!) might help a person pause and think better of it.

Or just go back to the mantra that's saved my life many times:

Who's going to feed the cat?