Because, even if it is about reddit, we also deal with sad stuff and try to support each others.
What can you do when someone on social media says they are feeling suicidal?
Most social networks allow users to report posts anonymously so the site can send them links and numbers to organisations offering support.
But Reddit is also trying a different approach.
It hosts a thread called Suicide Watch. This subreddit is set up specifically for people who are feeling suicidal to talk through their feelings.
Someone submits a post to the sub with a title explaining how they feel and why, then other redditors reply to them.
But it won’t stop them sharing their worries.
They will never reach that hotline because they fell ashamed or because their life would in greater danger.
As for myself, i participed in a french forum because i was also felling hopeless. so i kinda understand what they can endure but i must keep in mind that it is different and never the same. I went to psy, got medication, spent time on forum. It helped me to advance in my life. Social network helped me a lot.
It also helped them getting support, being listened, sharing some heavy stuff…i even saved a girl from suicide. It was difficult, i didn’t know what happened to her for several months, i was very sad. but one day she come back discretly, shyly told me hello and thanked me and i was very happy. :)
Most of case, we won’t know what happen after. But i want them to have a place to talk freely. It may lift a little their heart.
Nice to know it can help some people. Maybe it was just too much for me to moderate the community, because I basically had to read everything.
But that also good to know when you have to stop. Even myself i can’t bear this and need a break i reduced my activity in new for example