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seesaw · Feb 07, 2017, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by DocJohn

We do not ban discussions of suicide on our site, since, after all, we are a mental health support site. It would be pretty rare for someone who's gone through clinical depression to not have experienced such thoughts at least once...

We do have a policy about discussion of suicide and topics in this area:

https://forums.psychcentral.com/depr...resources.html

We just ask that people properly trigger their posts as such, and refrain from posting about any detailed plans, methods, or such.

I'd encourage members not to focus on the specific issue ("Are they talking about suicide?!") so much as what they're actually trying to communicate -- reaching out for help and for someone to just listen to them and hear them...

Best,
DocJohn

I understand that, and agree that it's very appropriate in the Depression and Self Harm forums. The remarks I am talking about seem to be in different forums where they are feeling in crisis and seem to be referring to a specific plan or decision to do so. The post I reported earlier was, in my opinion, making that kind of crisis decision and while the person was upset about other things in their life, what stood out to me the most was this claim that they were going to

Possible trigger:

end it all

I felt like the only kind of advice I wanted to give at that moment had nothing to do with the problems making them feel that way, but with the fact they were stating they seemed in immediate danger and needed to see professional help.

Thank you for your clarification on this topic, DocJohn. I appreciate it. And my intent is not to not give support to those feeling those feelings, but I think, as you have stated, there are specific forums for dealing with that and a limit as to what we can reasonably provide support for.

seesaw