• AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Two people close to me have gone from “normal” to suicidal and back again in the last 6 years, for different reasons and at different times. Thankfully they are both stable and enjoying their lives now.

    If you’ve not witnessed anything like that, count yourself lucky. I remember talking to people about suicide when I was younger and couldn’t understand how anyone could get to that place until I saw someone I know really well go through a complete mental breakdown.

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      21 hours ago

      It kind of blows my mind that suicide seemed so outlandish to you back then tbh. It’s always seemed like a reasonable and, in some unfortunate cases, necessary final escape plan to me. But maybe that’s a product of having not-so-great parents, depression, and growing up in sometimes middling/sometimes severe poverty?

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        21 hours ago

        Yes it is a product of those things, if you’re thinking about it then please see someone and work out a path to better mental health.

        We only get one life, it would be a tragedy to waste it!