cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/1360444
For context: One of the rules in that community is that you aren’t allowed to post anything related to suicide. In a mental health community.
cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/1360444
For context: One of the rules in that community is that you aren’t allowed to post anything related to suicide. In a mental health community.
If the reason is triggering, you are ill-informed. Discussing suicide does not trigger suicidal ideation, having open discussion about it can in fact push people to reach out. Now that is not to say that random strangers on the internet should be handling suicidal people, but refusing them an outlet to reach out is arguably more harmful as long as actually suicidal people are referred to the proper channels if they post.
I disagree, chain suicides do exist and we need to carefully evaluate if our actions could be causing more of those than the people we’re helping.