Ask HN: Alternatives to Suicide?

Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Suicide? by wwupt on Thursday March 04, 2021 @05:32PM (#26349419)

You're getting a lot of good advice here, like others I also recommend reaching out to a therapist!

Sorry if it's a bit of an odd recommendation, but in the next few hours/days, while you wait for your appointment or any other changes you're making, I can recommend reading through "Feeling Good" by David D. Burns MD. It's a book on cognitive behavioural therapy and it helped me tremendously to cope with, and eventually recover from severe depression. I recommend it because it offered some immediate short-term relief just from reading through it once. There are copies lying around on archive.org.

I wish for you to recover!

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Suicide? by WarOnPrivacy on Thursday March 04, 2021 @05:39PM (#26349490)

> I also recommend reaching out to a therapist!

I think that folks who live in a healthcare-wealthy region or are healthcare-wealthy themselves don't understand that a sizable chunk of Americans have neither mental healthcare nor the resources to fund prolonged therapy out of pocket.

And free practical, usable, community mental health does exist - but - again, mostly in healthcare-wealthy regions. In most US counties, residents tend to lack access to reliable public mental healthcare.

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