It is breaking our hearts to hear of people taking their lives over the the pain this administration has caused. Please keep your eyes on and your hearts open to your loved ones. Below are resources for anyone struggling.
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Contact the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline if you are experiencing mental health-related distress or are worried about a loved one who may need crisis support:
- Call/text 988
- Chat/visit: 988lifeline.org
Connect with a trained crisis counselor. 988 is confidential, free, and available 24/7/365.
I hope people appreciate that private industry is not there to help people in crisis. 988 is an example of how government can make people’s lives better. Don’t let any one label it as “waste”
But do they get a pickup order put on you for saying how you feel? Do they call the local mobile crisis team? In NY, the answer is yes. That’s why I won’t call. Because coworkers don’t need to know how I feel. Hospital gossip is not how I want to be known.
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The world is a better place with you in it... I keep telling that to all our people. I keep telling that to me.
And as I keep reminding myself, while there's life, there's hope... And when hope runs out, there's SPITE. And I'm not above living just to spite the mfers that want me dead.
Felt like country was all that was left. That’s been taken now too. Keep eating, keep getting sunlight, keep exercising. Your neighbors will need you to still be you. Maybe this is why we are all still here? You are not alone in these thoughts. We must persist for each other and the next generation.
Is there someone else whose death would help more than yours? I think about that. My suicidal ideations come from a mix of pain and my mistakes, but moreso the circumstances that led to those mistakes. I didn't ask for this shitty life or my shitty treatment. My parents should kill themselves, imo.
As for how it goes down, I don't know. I do think it's possible this administration would go out of its way to make our deaths painful, maybe even to torture us. Diseases might ravage us.
Personally, I'm not giving up yet. Maybe later, if things get worse. Until then, I'm trying to use my voice while I can. Hard to say how much it's helping.
Please use available resources if you need support. This world is so much better with you in it. This is a challenging time but there is always hope. Limit your exposure to upsetting media. Take time to do things that are calming, and enjoyable. Take time for self-care. Never give up! 🙏💕
One other point I would like to add for anyone who needs it - you are not alone even if it feels that way! Look for the love - look for the helpers. I see more connection and commonality now than I ever have. ❤️
Agreed. Depression is hard, especially when theres an external reason that you are powerless to effectively counter.
You want out, I get it. Been there. My view several years out is that I won't let these condom-failures have the satisfaction and I will fight them with every last ounce of strength.
I'll confess that I've had the creeping thought. It can be overwhelming and frustrating to feel like things will not only get worse, but that they will not change. History, however, has taught me otherwise. There are two things I think of that help me... The Tetrapharmakos, for one...
...and the other is that--no matter what happens--we are all the tellers of tales. Every perspective is important in revealing the truth in history. Curiosity is extremely compelling for me...but the unity of storytelling--something innate to all of us--is worth living for.
I talked to a therapist for first time a week ago and she stated that we HAVE to live our lives if for nothing else than to be able to help someone else. Without you here she said- that’s one less person to help. (I wasn’t talking about suicide but just wanting to “run away”)
And that if we can’t bring joy to ourselves and we are consumed by grief and anger- who does that help? It doesn’t help us and doesn’t help those we want to help. That has helped me these last few weeks. To focus on what I can do but to find time for my own family and love those around me too
One day at a time. If all you can do is make it through today, do that. No guarantee that tomorrow will be better, but it might be. Or you might be. Or someone will be there to help.
While that might make you feel proud of yourself, the insulting & invalidating aspect of your "reassurance" ironically erodes hope & actually makes more of a case for suicide.
You tell yourselves "everything is going to be alright," & despite your denial, people keep committing suicide.
You might be "alright" with that, but people typically show up to traumatize & damage us worse, drastically reducing our "quality of [survival]," regardless of which party is more in the majority.
You cannot reasonably predict our future. - Perhaps except that you would still expect denial to help?
Please try to be truthful with potential suicide cases, & please refrain from projecting irrational fantasies on us as substitution for our actual thoughts & feelings.
That is very invalidating, alienating, & discouraging.
I guess i should just not read any of the comments under here if people are so inclined to volunteer their insulting discouraging denial, expecting that to do anything but make things feel more hopeless & alienating. We are actual human beings with real thoughts & feelings of our own.
It is even worse because this administration has terminated multiple suicide related grants including my clinical trial with 85 individuals at high risk of suicide still in the middle of the study. I have heard that 16 NIH suicide grants were terminated.
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- Call/text 988
- Chat/visit: 988lifeline.org
Connect with a trained crisis counselor. 988 is confidential, free, and available 24/7/365.
And as I keep reminding myself, while there's life, there's hope... And when hope runs out, there's SPITE. And I'm not above living just to spite the mfers that want me dead.
You want out, I get it. Been there. My view several years out is that I won't let these condom-failures have the satisfaction and I will fight them with every last ounce of strength.
There's a better way...
Living well is the best revenge.
Or maybe revenge is?
Idk, I'm not a PHD in comeuppance. 🤔
Glove slaps? Demanding of Satisfaction?
You crazy kids can figure it out!
Just take pride. Never hurt yourself for them.
And honestly, there are days when this reminds me to keep breathing.
Please hang in there
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How many per day are murdered in this way by @Google, @Facebook, @Twitter and @Bluesky withholding hope?
There is no guarantee tomorrow wouldn't be worse.
Things easily get worse & worse & worse, despite your type of denial & discouraging insulting excuse for "reassurance."
You might as well applaud the habitual violators for their worsening abuse.
You tell yourselves "everything is going to be alright," & despite your denial, people keep committing suicide.
You cannot reasonably predict our future. - Perhaps except that you would still expect denial to help?
That is very invalidating, alienating, & discouraging.