An open letter to the people that successfully shutdown a forum that I can no longer turn to.
(Anyone from SS out there? Xx)
Dear people,
With the best intentions you have not saved us nor anyone. If anything you’ve more than likely tipped hundreds, maybe thousands from around the world but mainly US and UK
over the edge. All you have done is made our living conditions worse by taking away the one place that we could access 24/7 where we could talk openly to people who understand without fear of being judged, sectioned or patronised. What you’ve done is take away a very large support network that a great many relied upon.
For those that didn’t exchange personal emails etc we can no longer speak with our friends or know how they are.
You’ve simply and with great impact on a large scale oppressed us further.
In a world where of current; effective and positive mental healthcare is in such high demand yet so far off the needs of the masses (YES, MOST PEOPLE SUFFER MENTALLY IN ONE WAY OR MULTIPLE)..
This is.. to put it bluntly, fatal.
Congratulations on taking away our human right to free speech.
NO, I don’t mean the kind that slurs and offends with no repercussions. I mean the right to talk openly about REAL, ACTUAL, GENUINE feelings
or even distract and entertain with completely unrelated, trivial topics that whilst seemingly small actually kept some of us ticking over just that little bit longer.
Many had recovered fully and returned to tell us of their success. What you’ve done, is torn away a vital connecting point that people need.
We need a voice. You can’t just shut down a website and expect people to be magically ok- we still EXIST (unless some of us don’t now) and we are in the millions.
You can only ignore us for so long.
If all you do is “destruct” rather than construct something superior to have in it’s place then all you are doing is taking away. From the most vulnerable people.
You will never know how important that space was. Perhaps it would serve the greater many in future if people tried actually understanding instead of overstanding and delusional lack of acceptance.
You’d do better to understand “why”. “How” or “where” has never been the issue.
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If SS is what I think it is, that site run by self proclaimed misogynistic incels who taught & coerced a 13 year old girl into killing herself, good riddance. There’s a difference between a responsible open discussion and …well… THAT place.
Maybe it is and maybe it isn’t (the same place) but I used that site more than FB the last couple of years and it was well admin’d, have also face to face with the shit spreading from people who’ve never used or even looked at it jumping on the old “urmaaa gaaaahd” bandwagon. Of course it was far from perfect like most human made things are but unless you were an actual member of “that place”… That was the largest community of this nature online. There was so much more good that went around than the bad. The answer is education moderation not Tear it all down to shit and leave the rest to well.. die. You aren’t solving the problem, it’s still there only you can’t see it as much now and you feel a momentary wave of triumph as if you achieved something when like I said all that’s happened is connectivity of vulnerable people- for some of whom that was their only place- Ripped out.
If you’re talking about Suicide Solution, I hope you realize how much irreversible damage that website did to people. SS isn’t some bipartisan god-send. It’s full of people who ENCOURAGE each other to take their own lives. Shawn Shatto was 25. She committed suicide and essentially live-blogged the process to the forum after other forum members convinced her to do it. Shawn’s last words were literally “I’m fucking terrified”.
Places like The Suicide Project are wayyy safer than that for so many reasons. Discussing suicide methods is forbidden, partner searching is forbidden, it’s the closest a mental health forum can get to being even close to neutral. Instead of encouraging people to take the leap, the vast majority of the people here provide other coping & treatment options that the OP is welcome to try. And, again with the neutrality, if someone writes a suicide note on here, they usually will be met with comments like “I hope you’re still here, but if you’re not, rest easy”, not “you should do it”.
Sorry for the long comment. I just have a lot of issues with SS. It advertises itself as pro-choice when it’s actually pro-suicide.
Unfortunately most mental health programs here in the states are worthless. They experiment with people and exist just to try so called new meds like the SSRI’s that only destroy peoples mental health. Most support programs were destroyed by government (State Governors) dictates for the COVID virus that never did reach pandemic levels. Making people wear masks and keeping them apart 6 feet and from socializing is torture according to the Geneva convention. Im not sure what site you are talking about so I don’t have an opinion on it. For the most part those of us that lost our wills to live woke up in a COVID-1984 world and now life is becoming unbearable. Im guessing TPTB want us dead at this point.
Same here although it’s not as bad in the UK. I am thankful I’m not in the states. This is why we need community. The people we thought we supposed to be taking care of us don’t give a shit. So much so that it’s actually positively seeping through the cracks in their fucked up system. And we are the ones who are supposedly ill.. I agree with you there Robert this Covid lark really has been doing handy for the higher ups..
try, relocated. its still there but i personally wouldnt. theres mostly dicks there that dont give a fuck about others
Oh I thought it had gone completely as it would disappear and come back again. I suppose everyone’s experiences are very different especially in such a large community I guess I was lucky I found a small part of it. I do try and imagine what it would have been like for me on there if I was in my early 20’s or even a teen..
yeah. theres the occasional nice person but for the most part its only if they like you. if not then theyll basically run you out of town. yeah real fucking nice place
I got to admit that I am probably not the best example around here. Can I have some further Information about that Case in an Letter? I got the System Letter guiding me here and I concerned. I am not angry or in hate, but I am neither in greed of spectacle which is not meant to finally rescue someone. I do encourage People to confront themself with the Study of Dying, but I do not advice simple things, I do not push them. It is important for me to have clarity of what to expect from someone who is maybe stuck rather than struck in an suicidal frenzy as the System Letter shares to me it is.
Amen, a special place in Hell to them. 🙂