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subtle lights · 03:14 AM

I think most of my friends see suicide as "weakness, not being strong enough" etc. I'm not sharing my thoughts with them about this nor my issues. Maybe it would help to be open with them and they might get a different perspective but I am unable to face their criticism lately.

Yeah, it's hard to imagine something you haven't experienced, but how hard it is to be open minded and accept whatever the other person is going through as valid?

My ex-boyfriend shared the same opinion, we used to have fights about this.

Possible trigger:

He once told me that he once met a very suicidal person and he basically confirmed to this person that he should follow through with his intent. He basically talked him into it. Like, "he was weak anyway".
I just couldn't accept that my bf could have been the same person to do something like this. I had to erase it from my mind and rationalise it, until we broke up years later.
I don't know if that person had actually killed himself. Possible that my ex told me but my brain deleted that part from my accessble memory.