Facebook Launching Suicide App Where Friends Can Report Friends They Think At Risk

[Queen Boudica]

Now they are talking a texting service where you can text if you are in distress & the text is triaged and if there is cutting or die in the text you are moved to the top of the queue and talk to a counsellor. None of this is anonymous.

seriously wound up by this. People who work in mental health, who think they know better than people who suffer

 

[seedling]

Maybe this is the way that society will find out the true value of privacy. Go to the opposite extreme and see if we like that very much. And the pendulum swings.

 

[Queen Boudica]

Seriously @seedling they are arguing on there that it is fine and as long as facebook keeps the data private. And it is OK for a friend to do this.

 

[Mammo]

Seriously @seedling they are arguing on there that it is fine and as long as facebook kee...

"With friends like these..."

:)

 

[Queen Boudica]

https://www.ted.com/talks/nancy_lub..._that_inspired_a_crisis_help_line?language=en

 

[Queen Boudica]

"With friends like these..."

:)

Exactly.

 

[Queen Boudica]

I get really repulsed with reading things from people who don't get it.

No not just you. Actually I get really scared. I think if it is anything to do with mental health, because of what happened to my sister, I am all too wary that these people think they know better than you and they do have the power to make you do stuff based on their own do-good opinions, and putting you down as not believable because you are mental.

 

[shimmerz]

putting you down as not believable because you are mental.

And locking you up, and abusing you, and destroying your life, and driving one to suicide. 'Mental' people have no voice. And it is seriously pissing me off.
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This just exacerbates the situation imo.

 

[Queen Boudica]

Bloody terrifying and am now on train going to see one of them

 

[Neverthesame]

The f*ck? Seriously?

Well I want to tell you @Lizio that you have just done what I thought was the impossible.

I have a Facebook from years ago, I haven't been on it years, can't remember the password. I was content to just ignore it for... ever.

I have had numerous people ask me why I don't add them as friends, or from ex who wanted to change the thing from single to... whatever. I never actually added her (Only because I don't f*cking use it lol)

Anyways I have been resisting doing anything about this for years. Untill today that is.

I want it gone. No, nope, nope, no way, bad mojo, no, no, NO!

I have a bona-fide mental illness, but I am not crazy enough to possibly this is a good idea. Good God! What the f*ck!!??!!??

How long before you end up with people in hospital being committed by people they have never seen in person?

I am having visions of sittings home watching Netflix, then BANG!! Someone kicks down my door, throws me to the ground. Then men in white coats with a big blue F on the back, pump me full of haldol and drag me away... That's f*cking scary!

I mean, while I am laughing pretty hard at this, it is scary..... Oh God! I'm laughing at the scary... Oh shit, NO! Hey Who the hell ar.........
Let go of me... AAAHHHhhhhh.h..h......

But seriously I have to figure out how to get that password, so I can delete my Facebook.

 

[Queen Boudica]

And also for me, who I am very isolated and that alone feeling and no-one is there to help, this when I am really bad and feeling like that, it is like, if that person really cared, why not talk to me, make physical contact, it is like they don't care enough I am too much, so horrible that no-one wants to have contact with me (and I realise that is something that doesn't make sense, but when I am in that state and you are so alone, I am too much, so horrible that no-one wants to have contact with me that is how it is). To do it via facebook and yes with those suggestions, which when you are so bad, they just look so far from anything you could do, and also feel like you are even more of a failure because you can't. It is like, "can't you just take a bath and you will feel better" No. When I have been that bad, only thing really helped was the voice of someone I trusted, helping soothe me almost. Just that that helps. That is my experience. And you feel really guilty for needing that from anyone, because you don't want that, you want to be able to do it on your own and be so strong and independent and not feel a 'burden' you feel like on anyone and go for that walk, or take that bath, but in that moment No You feel like you are too needy, too much for anyone to want to be there for you and that is why you are so alone and that pain will never go away, so you want it to stop. Don't know whether that makes sense to anyone.

 

[shimmerz]

I sometimes get the feeling that there is a massive need to have everyone feel like they are mentally ill. Because it is dis-empowering. Report on others with no discrimination and everyone will be on anti-psychotics, nobody will take anyone else seriously because they are 'mentally ill'. Facebook has NEVER been my friend. Never.