A suicidal person can be someone who you just went on a vacation with, cracked jokes with, played sports with, cried with. Then the next day they’re gone. I promise your mental health matters, no matter how good you hide it.
@SaltySicky Most of the times the family would call bc simply they didn’t know what to do and they have a mentally health history. We would have no choice but to force them to the hospital with police which would make them react. I felt bad for how isolated they must of felt.
@SaltySicky Working ems in my past and dealing with a lot of mental health patients. I have to agree I do feel like a lot of the patients who stated they wanted to take their life, just wanted to talk about it. And not really act on it. My partner and I would always give them that
When we treat chronic suicidal ideation as taboo and overlook the impacts of complex trauma, we reinforce so many painful narratives trauma survivors have been given about how something is wrong with them that makes them fundamentally undesired by the world. We have to do better.
It’s A Traumatic Event.
At the end of the day, losing someone by suicide is traumatic. The grieving stages are way more complex than if someone died by natural causes. Start acknowledging that, the stigma can hold you from telling yourself that
Trauma processing often involves confronting painful, confusing memories & toxic realities-- & we can only do it AFTER lots of hard work establishing a stable, safer baseline.
It can be EXHAUSTING.
EVERYONE working their trauma recovey is an Olympic level emotional athlete.
Healing doesn’t mean your triggers disappear.
It means you approach triggers as information,
(they prime you to pay attention)
and learn to strip them of their power so you RESPOND in lieu of reacting.
"Letting" your pain or past f*ck with your everyday life ISN'T a failure of "toughness" or "character."
Humans who're at the point of their trauma f*cking up their job, relationships, or functioning have usually been "successfully" "toughing it out" for YEARS to that point.
Forget "healing" all this crap at once. Not possible.
Focus on finding ONE teeny, tiny thread to start pulling on today. Realistic trauma recovery's ALL about the little steps that may even seem too little to POSSIBLY matter in the moment.
Start w/ staying present. That's it.