Posted by Dinah on March 5, 2005, at 20:31:55
In reply to Re: possibly being able to do more to help » Dr. Bob, posted by alexandra_k on March 5, 2005, at 15:02:51
I just don't understand the anger towards people in such acute distress that they want to kill themselves. While I know it's distressing to watch, I imagine, no I KNOW, it's a whole lot more distressing to experience.
We want Babble to be a community, a family away from family, yet we also want to send the message that if posters are feeling so bad they want to end their life they should go away and do it elsewhere because it makes us uncomfortable? I hope Dr. Bob never follows the example of the other community and implements such a policy.
We've lost at least one Babbler over the years I've been here. And I have to say that it isn't at all preferable for someone to be clearly increasingly distressed and then disappear. Moreover, if even one Babbler is helped through a suicidal crisis by other posters or by intervention here, well, thank God and Dr. Bob.
Babble is a big board. It's perfectly ok for posters not to feel up to coping with a thread like that and to skip it.
I'm sorry if I sound a bit strident. But I remember the message I got as a teen. Nobody cares if you're desperately unhappy. Nobody cares if you feel like killing yourself. But for heavens sake don't make a scene.
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