"This is a death sentence potentially to thousands of youth across the United States."
  • MiyamotoKnows@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    This is absolute bullshit! These vile fuckers want to kill kids! How sick in the head do you have to be to align with these motherfuckers in 2025??? Pure evil!

  • kameecoding@lemmy.world
    10·
    3 days ago

    You know sometimes you wonder how come Hitler and the gang was just doing fucked up shit and no one stopped and then you see the slide that the US is in, day after day, more and more straight up evil shit being done and half the country probably even loves it and then you kinda start to understand.

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 days ago

    It wont help everyone but people should be aware PFLAG offers peer counseling for queer people and loved ones, though its mainly aimed at people struggling with a loved one coming out (which incidentally, if thats you or someone you know, getting that help is could save the queer person’s life)

  • _number8_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    OK please bear with me – who in the name of god feels more comfortable or better or soothed about their life by calling a stranger, who knows nothing about their situation, who has a little button that calls the cops on them and could get them involuntarily hospitalized or shot… I mean seriously I’m an introvert and whenever I’m that depressed I’m not exactly…outgoing.

    • Fondots@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 days ago

      I don’t have any significant mental health issues, but I can see the appeal.

      Sometimes you just really need to get stuff off of your chest. Ideally you have people close to you that you can vent to, but some people don’t, and even if you do, sometimes they’re just the wrong kind of people to have that sort of conversation with.

      And just being able to say something out loud can help you figure things out on your own. Sowe programmers and such do “rubber duck debugging” where they just explain the code and the issues they’re having to a rubber duck or stuffed animal or something on their desk, and the act of talking through it sort of engages different parts of your brain and often that’s enough to find the issue (I remember one time back in high school I was taking a programming class, I was presenting my project to the class, it worked, but it was a mess of ugly spaghetti code, and as I was up there explaining it out loud for the first time, something just clicked and I realized how I could have done it a much better way.) Some people feel really stupid talking to a rubber duck though (especially if it’s someone who’s already afraid that people think they’re “crazy”) so having an actual human to talk to could be really helpful for them.

      And a lot of these things have other resources they can offer. They may be able to help you find a support group, therapist, housing assistance, have some sort of a crisis team they can send out to meet with you, etc.

      And for what it’s worth, I work in 911 dispatch. This will vary a lot around the country of course, but while we certainly do get a decent amount of calls from crisis hotlines, they’re basically all for people who are in imminent danger of harming themselves. And the number of those calls I get is absolutely tiny in comparison to the amount of calls I’ve transferred to 988 and our police never so much as drove past the callers house.

    • t_berium@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 days ago

      A Hotline like this is for desperate people in need of help. Have you ever been so desperate about anything that you thought of ending your life? No need to answer.