U.S. transition to 988 suicide and crisis lifeline begins Saturday

Re:U.S. transition to 988 suicide and crisis lifeline begins... by vasco on Saturday July 16, 2022 @05:54PM (#32122321)

> What if you're dealing with someone else suicidal? Just listen and keep listening, without making yourself an emotional burden.

Careful with this, it's easy as a partner of someone suffering from this to over time get too impacted by the constant depression talk and walking on egg shells to not say the wrong thing.

My recommendation is to help your friend or partner get professional help, if after a couple of months of listening you're still just listening to same stuff. Otherwise it'll take a toll on you and two depressed people are worse than one.

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Re:U.S. transition to 988 suicide and crisis lifeline begins... by throwaway988 on Saturday July 16, 2022 @06:25PM (#32122501)

You can't save someone if you're drowning yourself. I wasn't really thinking of partners here. I guess I was blessed in that my partners at the worst moments didn't really care that much about me. Getting a partner that has my back was part of getting better. Or put another way, even on the worst days I just couldn't do it now, because I know she'd be destroyed.

Anyway, I think friends and even just acquaintances can do more, even if that seems counterintuitive.

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