Know Anyone to Commit (or try) Suicide?

[TENT]

wow. thanks bro. that means a lot.

Aye mayne, please hang around for awhile.

You don't even know the influence you have on folks.

 

[Texas Catdaddy]

Agreed & also readily advertise / make it clear what the suicide prevention and mental health support links, numbers & networks are. Have those numbers clearly listed in public places so that people are reminded that "help" is out there - just have to reach out and ask for it, or hopefully have someone encourage you to do so.

Credit also to the places like drop-in centers or food shelters / soup kitchens for helping people out. Ensuring people have a sense of community, friendships & of course access to food.

Some of the most rewarding work I've done is at the cold / wet weather shelters back in the day earlier in my career. Ensuring people were safe and sound, had a place to get back on their feet & resources we could offer them. Simple stuff - a bed (whether for a few days or up to say 3 weeks), food, shower, getting their laundry done, getting phone numbers and contacts to reach out for volunteer or part-time work, and so on.

Helping people get back on their feet, as the saying goes. Also hearing peoples' stories and ensuring their info/contacts were in the database so we had an idea how people were doing. Also - they could refer their friends to us who were down on their luck and living on the street ... fleeing a toxic home situation, etc. Refer them to treatment programs if they were looking to detox, etc.

makes my offerings look miniscule, but this is not what im good at/or do best ..... we need you out there .....

 

[Helico-pterFunk]

makes my offerings look miniscule, but this is not what im good at/or do best ..... we need you out there .....

Thanks fam’. Any offerings one can do to help others is all beneficial in the long run. Even little stuff like socks and shoes donations are greatly appreciated. Especially with the volume of people coming and going.

I was always impressed by the senior staff who could be constantly multi-tasking. I function better when I can focus on certain tasks and doing the intakes for people during crappy weather fall and winter months was really productive. I appreciated being able to connect with people and make sure we were providing people a safe environment. A place to recharge.

Where I work now is longer-term housing and a smaller number of people - older population overall.

 

[playahaitian]

We gotta be careful

To not attach suicide to white folk

Black folk go thru 10 times the pain from day 1

We can't create some type of excuse to treat that as normal

Or deserved

Or some badge of honor

We are not SUPPOSED to be hurt and be tortured and beat down and degraded and cowed...

We are human beings

in fact we feel more and are more attached to nature and the spiritual and the universe.

Our pain is real.

Not contrived or exaggerated

Suicide should not be a judgment of failure or weakness.

You do NOT know what another person is going through inside or been through already.

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