While I was reading this, I felt like some professional wrote it or someone who had direct experience in suicidal case with himself/herself or with someone close, a friend, a partner, a family member... (Maybe I'm wrong.)
Nevertheless, it is a great initiative & I sincerely approve & support it even thou I live in Croatia & we do not have so many suicides. Seems to me that this initiative is focus on the USA governed territories or the English spoken territories...?
But in my daily & practical research for more than a decade, the system in Croatia, since the war we had is actually becoming the copy of the USA free capitalism concept which is destroying further more the Mother Nature, the family values, people becoming selfish & greedy, health security falling apart, ignorance spreading, drugs taking over, more guns & weapons produced & imported & exported, food becoming toxic & expensive, police started acting same like in the USA turning Croatia in the real police state... most probably in few years we might have much higher suicide rate than ever, unfortunately.
But the change comes from within every individual & light can shine in the darkness! Hope is never dying!
Occasionally, I will stop by in the community to check what is going on & if I could contribute anyhow, I will try to do so. I also believe that I will learn something useful from the community too.
All the best to all of you great people all over the planet! Be in love & free of anything! Help each other! Respect each other! Life is & can be beautiful even in the worst possible situations! Never go to war for no one! Always make peace without guns & bloodshed!
Right on both counts!
This is definitely intended to be an international initiative. We have no borders here - although it's primarily English-speaking people participating thus far. It would be amazing to spread the initiative to include all dialects and countries.
Free capitalism does have its downsides, but when implemented properly, it shouldn't result in as much destruction as you're describing, and provides a great deal of opportunity for personal growth. Our free (biased) media exercises its freedom of speech and freedom of reach to broadcast biased "information" which makes us look far worse than we are. Things are certainly difficult here, we're quite divided, and things are worse than they were a couple of decades ago, but the quality of life and average income and GDP per capita in the US is still far higher than nearly any other country on Earth. People who don't have experience living outside of the US don't know how difficult life can be elsewhere, and thus complain as if they're living in some 3rd world country - typically, they're just spoiled and don't make the most of the opportunities offered here. And we're the opposite of a police state - crime right now is more rampant than ever and there's a great deal of lenience on crimes, both minor and serious. It's unfortunate that our biased media misleads people like this.
Absolutely, we all have the opportunity to create and induce happiness and positivity!
Feel free to do so! We're going to continue growing our initiative as much as we can. I hope our mental health ambassador positions will eventually become standing jobs with good pay. And in the meantime, I hope to learn plenty as well, as there is always room to learn more.
100%! We can always acknowledge our differences, as they will always exist, and talk them out peacefully.
Absolutely looking forward to seeing you around here. 😊
This is one of the nicest answers that I ever got here on Hive. Thanks!