[Lilly2]

Possible trigger:

It hard for me to hear when other people are wanting to off themselves. It's hard for my alters, too. We learned what it was like to deal with pain and to not do that or go down that road. We've been med-free and SI-free and SH-free for over a decade now. When we hear about someone online or in PM wanting to off themselves, we get scared. We don't want them to die. We want them to feel healed and loved and cared for and alive. We want them to find professional help, but some don't want professional help. We try our best to reach out for help to be able to help them and to assert our boundaries, but we also need to take care of ourselves, too. We just want everyone to be safe. We accept them in their pain, but it's hard to hear when all the responsibility seems to fall on us and what we say in response, as opposed to what we can do on our part to communicate about resources, tips, and our hope for that hurting person. We don't want them to disappear or hate us, but we'd rather have them hate us than to be gone. We don't want them hurt or gone. We are sad. We are feeling really sad and scared for them. We want everybody safe.

I'm sorry if any of the above triggers anyone. It's not that we don't want to help, but it is that we don't know how to help. We need help with helping others. We feel bad when others are hurting.

[Betty_Banana]

I think that's a normal reaction for anyone,not just someone with DID. It's always hard trying to figure out how to handle things.

It's hard for me too when people want to kill their selves and being unable to help them,especially online.

I just suggest they seek help and leave it at that.I don't take on the responsibility of saving them.

[Lilly2]

Originally Posted by Betty_Banana

I think that's a normal reaction for anyone,not just someone with DID. It's always hard trying to figure out how to handle things.

It's hard for me too when people want to kill their selves and being unable to help them,especially online.

I just suggest they seek help and leave it at that.I don't take on the responsibility of saving them.

Thank you @Betty_Banana

[vultureculture]

Seems to me during the last few months I couldn't understand that either there were times I was like a cyborg could be vulnerable in a minute for it to all go away. It was so difficult knowing now we just needed to understand their plight in this. To go the their tier of just saying I am glad that you shared ur story so folks know what happened is the best thanks and forgiveness you could receive.

[Fuzzybear]

I think its a normal reaction too for a lot of people, not only for someone with DID.

I feel similar sometimes.

((( safe hugs )))