spicyautism:

anguisintrepidus:

spicyautism:

unpopular opinion: mental health/suicide/self harm awareness does absolutely nothing for the people it intends to help if it doesn’t challenge the legal system that requires forced institutionalization of people who self harm and/or are suicidal, especially younger people like teens and kids

I’m sorry. I’m not sure I understand this post. It reads like, “Don’t require people who are suicidal to stay in a hospital,” but how else are you supposed to help someone who is actively trying to take their own life? As far as teens go. Someone, please explain….

someone reaching out and saying “i’m suicidal” doesn’t want to kill themselves. they’re taking the initiative to prevent that from happening.

but when you force a person to choose between suffering in silence and having their autonomy, freedoms, voice and opinions stripped away, being completely cut off from the outside world, putting themselves in a position that makes them even more vulnerable to mistreatment and abuse, and being plunged into debt, most people are going to choose the former rather than the latter.

and when asking for help essentially means being punished, suicide can often seem like the better option.