It's painful to witness queer online communities worried and dealing with losing people through #suicide.
at the same time, it's inevitable, when this is a community with a high suicide rate.
I have queer&trans people in my life who worry me and have been worrying me for years, I've lost someone through suicide, I've seen someone through surviving an attempt..
it's important to check in with yourself too, to care for yourself, it's hard to have to witness this.
it's important not to put blame on ourselves aka "we should have done more"
and dare I say it - it's for me also important to respect someone elses choice.
community dealing with suicide, cancer mention Afficher plus
and I have to add, I also deserted someone who made several attempts and I still blame myself for that. I just couldn't take it no more at the time.
*sigh*
for me, it helps to think of depression as something like #cancer: it's a life threatening disease. It's good to fight it. but sometimes you can't help but lose.
that said, every life lost is a terrible loss.
I hope we don't lose not even a single more person. I know we save each other, all the time.
💜