apparently my boss who is a professor at my school doesn’t have a cell phone and his coworkers were upset by this so they bought him a childs toy phone and labeled it “David’s jitterbug” (for those of you that don’t know jitterbugs are phones made for old people that have like massive buttons and shit) so the other day I walked into his office to ask him a question and he pressed a button on it which made it start loudly playing the ABCs and he said “excuse me I have to take this” and then started singing along to the ABCs while shooing me out of his office
this is the phone. he apparently was in the middle of a meeting with the department the other day and got annoyed so he pressed a button, said “I have to take this” and left
Having concrete anticipations also gives you a solid reference point against which you can check your mental health status.
The way I knew I had slipped from morbid ideation to suicide risk was when I realized that the release date of kingdom hearts 3 wasn’t enough to make me leave a bottle of hydrocodone alone. The moment of recognition that something I had been dreaming of for 14 years wasn’t enough motivation to make it through the night was how I knew I needed an intervention.
Video games just happen to have concerts dates and strong reactions from people. They’re an excellent and accessible tool.
Okay, so I’m on mobile and just wrote a huge thing that only half made sense, so let’s see if I can condense things… (also used my work computer to look up some sources – sorry if the links don’t work. I had to type rather than copy and paste, and may have made typos)
The Bloor Street viaduct was once the second most frequented bridge for suicides in all of North America. At least, until they installed an anti-jumping barrier. While there was an initial spike in jumpers at the nearest companion bridge, the long term rates of suicide have dropped city-wide by the average number of people who died every year at the viaduct.
Further, “restricting access to common means of suicide…has been shown to be effective in reducing rates of death in suicide.” (Source)
It is surprisingly easy for people to help the majority of individuals with depression and suicidal ideation live long enough to get the medical attention they need. We can do this by helping them find something, no matter how small or inconsequential it might seem, to live for, and by helping them remove easy access to their planned method of suicide.
This, in a nutshell, is what the Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) program teaches. There’s more to it than that, and I would strongly recommend everyone who is able to, take the training. Go here to find a session near you.
Please don’t belittle anything that is able to keep a person alive. Depression and suicide are nasty diseases, and it doesn’t take much effort to help make the world a little safer for those suffering from them.
every single time i tell people i plan on living in a haunted lighthouse and need a plan to afford a historical building like that, every single person, including my Mom, says “you could just build a new one and kill someone in it” and that’s why im never attending any of my friends’ housewarming parties
what society needs to understand is that friendship and romance are not ranks, tiers, or levels. they are not above or below each other. romance is not a promotion. friendship is not a demotion. romance is not “more than” being friends with someone. friendship and romance are concepts that exist on equal terms, side by side. sometimes they happen to coincide. other times they never intersect at all. how relationships are classified is up to the individuals involved but like?? neither is inherently more or less valuable is the thing
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