I've seen a few posts like this but none really circulating within the actual circles they're targeted at so I'm making one in the hopes it reaches the people who actually need to see it and know about it:
mistagging stuff like "self harm" and "suicide" to say stuff like "s3lf h4rm" and "sv1c1d3" is so fucking dangerous.
You cannot expect people who want to avoid content like that to know every single tag we are using and block all of them. Please just use "self harm tw" and other tags like that that people will already know to block or already have blocked when you're venting because otherwise the posts still show up in the feeds of people they could trigger.
by mistagging your content you are genuinely putting people in recovery or those who have recovered at risk of a relapse. I don't care if this sounds dramatic but mistagging your content could genuinely lead to somebody seriously harming themselves or worse.
I have discovered something recently and I wanted to share it! It's more a theory than a discovery but it doesn't matter.
There is two types of svicidal people:
The first type are truely suffering at the moment, they need help and they generally WANT help. Sometimes they do things like calling an ambulance after a sewicide attempt to "be saved" and/or go to the psych ward or telling someone they're about to do it. The thing is that they generally don't truely want to die but to heal from mental health problems. {It's like the theory that if you could have another life without your actual problems you would be okay to live.} In my opinion, they really can get better but they need to be protected from themselves sometimes.
The second ones are what I call "chronically svicidal". They generally hide their problems, don't talk about it and the most important part: THEY DON'T WANT TO BE SAVED! They may accept help but inside their brain, they are absolutely sure that they'll end up killing themselves; even if they need to wait 5 or 10 years to do it, they could never imagine living a long life (and don't even thing about a "happy" life cuz they can't imagine it ๐ถ) I believe they don't suffer from the fact they are svicidal but from life in general. If you use the same example than before, these people would still be svicidal in a "perfect world" where they don't have any problems in their lives.
! Reminder that it's just a theory !
If you could tell me if you think you are apart of one of these categories it would be perfect ^^
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