I have struggled with this topic on and off throughout my life. I am not suicidal, but I have been gaining a lot of perspective lately about other people's views and perceptions of events and realizing how much of our life experience is subjective. I have been working very hard on changing my views and thoughts about the way the world works, but the question I have that I can't answer is how do we help those that won't or feel like they can't reach out? How do we cope with strong intuitive feelings that something is severely wrong and although we have reached out over and over again, our help is constantly rejected? The truth is I don't know and I don't think there is an answer, because ultimately we are all responsible for ourselves.
I think the only thing we can really do is learn how our own perspective and truth is not always going to mirror someone else's version of reality and that we should approach all of our interactions with kindness and love for each other. Just a friendly reminder and public service announcement, if anyone needs help or feels like no one cares or that life isn't worth it, just know there are people that do and will always care and that it's possible to get past anything by having faith and surrounding yourself with supportive people. Don't let your own toxic and self destructive thoughts cost you a beautiful future and devastate so many people that probably care a great deal more than you think. I've been there and I know how it is, and I promise it gets better if you have faith that it can get better.
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I think that it is important to be aware of the people around you and to realize what your actions may do to that person. I think that we are now living in an age where this is no longer the norm. Being polite and considerate does not take much time and it certainly does not cost anything.
Of course people wanting to commit suicide is nothing new, but much more help is available nowadays. Being kind and considerate to people will make it more likely for them to want to seek help, for them to see that society is not as uncaring about them, that their lives do matter.
Of course this is just a small step. Society's attitude to mental suffering or illness has to change.
I agree completely. I'm just grateful for the new perspective and ability to realize that so many people are affected by the loss of one life that could have been prevented. Hopefully with a shift in conscious intentions and public awareness we can change this world.
Suicide sometimes feels like such a "taboo" subject, but it is one that needs to be addressed more frequently and with sincerity. Thank you for writing about this in such an eloquent manner... love the phrase "Don't let your own toxic and self destructive thoughts cost you a beautiful future and devastate so many people that probably care a great deal more than you think." Very important to remember :)
The thing is in the moment when you feel completely empty inside, it's hard to describe, but there's this point where you start feeling like everything that exists would be so much better without you being a part of it. Looking at it from the flip side and seeing what I couldn't before, it's because we don't see ourselves as part of the whole and necessary to the fabric of existence. How do we fix it? Surrender and have faith in something; love, humanity, friendship, honestly it doesn't matter what the thing you find to have that faith in is, because it's all about love in the end. The feeling of separation is a feeling of non existence and being unlovable. It's an ego based viewpoint of ourselves and not real in any way. It's a manifested false belief that is so destructive to a person and everyone that cares about them. People just need to learn how to be more receptive and accepting of each other and stop hurting each other.