TW Suicide & the DWP Now is not the time to end your life. Now is not the time to act on plans. Now is the time to be as gentle and kind as you can be to yourself. We don’t know the full picture but we DO KNOW we have strength in community and we want you around please. Jay x - ThreadSky

shrinkatlarge.bsky.social • 1 day ago

TW Suicide & the DWP

Now is not the time to end your life.
Now is not the time to act on plans.
Now is the time to be as gentle and kind as you can be to yourself.
We don’t know the full picture but we DO KNOW we have strength in community and we want you around please.

Jay x

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888natnatnat888.bsky.social•1 day ago

🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

johnmduk1.bsky.social•1 day ago

You are aware most don't make plans

excelsiorsmith.bsky.social•1 day ago

Freeze mode is over:

https://lokiexcelsiorsmith.substack.com/p/shook-ones?r=fd4u4

xanthreborn.bsky.social•16 hours ago

My lowest point wasn't when I was depressed and turning to suicide to escape my shitty life. It was when I was mixed bipolar and psychotic, listening to a voice telling me she wanted to be with me forever on the other side because she loved me. It made me HAPPY. I felt euphoric and indestructible.

xanthreborn.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Nothing in my shitty life could hurt me anymore (not even the NSA or the shadows in the hall) because I was dying anyway and that made me feel EMPOWERED. I had a million and one thoughts, plans and curiosities of death, each one making me more euphoric than the last. It was so dangerous.

xanthreborn.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Then I suddenly got super depressed again and started crying over everything wrong in my life and how nobody loved me. After a few hours, my mood flipped again into anger (prob manic). I was so angry at my dad, who I hadn't even spoken to in years that I literally decided to live just to spite him.

xanthreborn.bsky.social•16 hours ago

That episode lasted 3 days but even if it was only 3 days, it was the most psychologically intense 3 days of my life. That was last month. I've stabilized since and started leaving the house again and eating regularly both of which had been serious issues for weeks due to paranoia. Progress is good

xanthreborn.bsky.social•16 hours ago

My family's gonna give me shit if I gain weight but I hope I do. I dropped weight like crazy because I was so scared of poison in my food. Eating noodles and chicken nuggets now is my comfort food, even if family gives me shit for ruining my weight loss progress with unhealthy eating (I'm obese).

xanthreborn.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I can say after living 10 years living with schizoaffective disorder that suicide hotlines are not equipped to deal with this sort of crisis. They're more for adjustment disorders. Should've gone to ER last month but I was too far gone. I'm glad I'm somehow still alive. That was hella scary.

oldautisticwoman.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thank you.

purplegril.bsky.social•1 day ago

I need this atm. Not entirely sure how to get through. Context: dealing with some specific hard symptoms right now, in the last couple of weeks, and the news on top is too much.

purplegril.bsky.social•1 day ago

(this isn't a personal reply for @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social to deal with - emotionally or otherwise. I guess it's the nearest I can give to solidarity atm. That it's hitting me, and I'm trying, and actually messages like this can make the difference)

fleetlife.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thank you for speaking up and reaching out. You are important. You are vital. As they say in Canada, elbows up 🙏

purplegril.bsky.social•1 day ago

What does elbows up mean?

fleetlife.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's a hockey term-Protect yourself. Fight back.

shrinkatlarge.bsky.social•1 day ago

I am so sorry to hear that, darling. Sending love and solidarity x

bulldozerstudios.bsky.social•1 day ago

Damn, I need more of this in my life right now. Between struggling with having no income, several disabilities, including one that prevents me from driving, medical issues and being stuck in the ass end of nowhere, I honestly don't know what I'm going to do at this point.

vulcan800.bsky.social•1 day ago

Sign me up as a helper

moreglass.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s hard not to😢

luckyloven.bsky.social•18 hours ago

It’s not feeling to good right now. But thanks.

jay2theworld.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’ve lost two friends to suicide this year. Fuck 😫

laurie1rocks.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm so sorry that happened. Love and peace to you 💕

ravenscrye.bsky.social•1 day ago

I plan on going done swinging if they come for us. I won't let them take me away to a camp and I'll take as many Fascist boot lickers down with me.

Now that said, that is worst case scenario plan. I'm hoping to just get to live my life and pet cats tho.

craftsandcuttings.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Hell yeah.

ravenscrye.bsky.social•1 day ago

*down not done.

chrisjohanesen.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’m sticking around out of spite. 😤

welshmammy.bsky.social•1 day ago

TW suicide. I suffered multiple organ failure and a brain injury as a result of attempting suicide. I received no support after discharge.My life is poor quality.I fight to stay alive every day. Each day it gets harder. I’d do it again in a heartbeat if the DWP take my PIP. They’ve made me worthless

rostech.dev•1 day ago

no matter who's in office, trump, biden, kamala, the mental health industry will never help us. it's up to ourselves to look out for number 1. even if people call us selfish.

rostech.dev•1 day ago

that's the mental health industry for you.

mn92.bsky.social•11 hours ago

It’s that slap in the face that scares me from ending it. I’m sorry you’ve had to continue to endure. PIP & the DWP seem to like playing with people on the edge. Saves em money in the long run if we jump off the machine though.

chatmeups.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Easier said than done tho

badhouses.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm really struggling. I can't cope with the government belief system about mental health.

iheartstargirl.bsky.social•1 day ago

Treat yourself with love.

mn92.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Be careful, there is MINIMAL support and it’ll likely make you worse, not better.

If you have family & friends let them know and accept help before you NEED it.

bradykenda.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's a daily fight and at the end of each day I fall asleep knowing it begins again tomorrow.

reformedrebel001.bsky.social•1 day ago

it’s exhausting.

bradykenda.bsky.social•1 day ago

It sure is. And all consuming most days

nicmintginger.bsky.social•1 day ago

🫂

georgesellers.bsky.social•1 day ago

THIS is by far the best posting of the day!
Our hats are off to you, Dr. Watts!

thesmilinglemon.bsky.social•1 day ago

Keep posting this kind of inspiration. It helps. 🙂

rushgirl3.bsky.social•1 day ago

My big brother committed suicide in 2012.

I will never forgive myself for not seeing it.

laurie1rocks.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's not your fault, please forgive yourself

boomerfmk.bsky.social•11 hours ago

My big brother in 2004

My other brother's wife (who'd been a dorm mate of mine in college) in 1996

Suicide is NEVER the answer---never for you, and never for those you'd leave behind (even when you think otherwise)

rushgirl3.bsky.social•11 hours ago

My deepest condolences on your loss.

boomerfmk.bsky.social•11 hours ago

You as well 💔

kibbitz.bsky.social•1 day ago

❤️

kylethuzad.bsky.social•1 day ago

Talking with other people going through it helps. Talking with people doing the work and finding purpose in that also helps ❤️

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