Uhm, sorry, can you elaborate on what you mean? Do you mean, like, what's ableist is the assumption that the reason someone isn't using a suicide hotline is because they're just too ignorant or incapable of finding the information?
I don’t think that the majority of people who praise suicide hotlines know what they’re doing. They’ve either never called or they called when they weren’t actively suicidal, which is fine, but it means that they’re blissfully unaware of what happens when a suicidal person calls a suicide hotline. At least, I hope it’s out of ignorance, not malice.
If you tell a suicide hotline worker that you’re suicidal, they track the call and call the police. You can get arrested for being suicidal. It’s horrible, especially since they can imprison up for weeks or months without consent or trial. Imagine what would happen if people accused of crimes had no rights, and that’s what happens to suicidal people.
Not only is the entire premise horrific, psych wards are hives of abuse. Victims are verbally abused, physically assaulted, “restrained” with chokeholds, drugged, raped and molested, drugged and raped, forced into electroconvulsive therapy, and even murdered, not to mention doing all of this on tax payer’s money and taking advantage of insurance fraud. You only hear about the extreme circumstances because the abusers have complete control over someone’s release and contact with the outside world, and society has deemed this treatment morally okay. But trust me, it happens in most hospitals. Predators thrive where people have been stripped of their basic rights.
Unsurprisingly, all of this causes PTSD. A system that most people call “mental help” is the cause of mental health problems.
If that wasn’t bad enough, people who have 911 called on them for being mentally ill by hotlines or other people are likely to be murdered before ever being imprisoned.
So, if you’re a disability advocate, educate yourself and help us put an end to the torture and murder of mentally ill people.
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