@nuclearshill's comment on 'I'm depressed and unwell :marseydoomer:. I've also been talking to weird people who are not dramatards :dramatard: . Talked with a guy who wants to travel to mexico :marseymariachi: /colombia :marseyflagcolombia: to kill himself :marseycontemplatesuicide:.'

I'm depressed and unwell :marseydoomer:

. I've also been talking to weird people who are not dramatards :dramatard:

. Talked with a guy who wants to travel to mexico :marseymariachi:

/colombia

to kill himself :marseycontemplatesuicide:

So, as I mentioned here before, my life has gone down the drain :marseysipping: . I'm physically and mentally sick :marseytabletired2: . This has lead me to conversations with people who are suffering like me.

Recently talked with a guy who is slowly going blind (Keratoconus) looking for a painless way to go out. He had apparently tried to approach VAD (voluntary assissted suicide) clinics in Switzerland :marseyflagswitzerland: but realised he was not eligible (young and no life threatening illness). Like this one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dignitas_(non-profit_organisation)

Dignitas is a Swiss non-profit organization providing physician-assisted suicide to members with terminal illness or severe physical or mental illness, supported by independent Swiss doctors. By the end of 2020, they had assisted 3,248 people with suicide at home within Switzerland and at Dignitas' house/flat near Zürich.[1] They provide advisory work on palliative care, health care advance directives, suicide attempt prevention, and legislation for right-to-die laws around the world.

Interesting stuff :marseyshook: .

So now, he's looking into south american countries like mexico and colombia because one can get pentobarbital (drug used in assisted suicides) at pet shops there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_tourism

A drug known as liquid pentobarbital, which is used by owners to euthanize pets, can give a person a painless death in under one hour. Due to the drug's availability at pet shops, tourists seeking to end their lives were reported to be flying from around the world to Mexico.

He says he has some money saved up and will travel in 2 months or so :marseysad: . Honestly, I didn't even a say lot to encourage him to live which says a lot about how far I've sunk psychologically. I sympathised with him and mustered up some words about how I hoped he can get some treatment :marseydoctor: that fix his issue but that's about it :marseyshrug: .

I also joined a telegram group comprised mostly of socialist guys from slavic countries and a few from the middle east and latin american countries :marseyitsoverputin: . Nothing particularly interesting there. Just thought I share :marseyagree: .

So, how have you guys been? :marseyagree:

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hypernovasaiz lord/liege moralstrag :marseypearlclutch:

7d ago #7373117

This has lead me to conversations with people who are suffering like me.

So you surround yourself with mentally and physically unfit individuals and expect that to make things better?

I really never understand why people do this.

Surround yourself with people you want to be like - not those suffering from the same problems as you.

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nuclearshill gau/cho hypernovasaiz 7d ago #7373160

:marseyhesright#:

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Stoicpeace He/Him KWAB hypernovasaiz 7d ago #7373168

I didn't intend to. Just stumbled onto them while searching for other stuff. Tbh, Successful folk don't want to surround themselves with losers like me as well. I honestly don't see a lot of lifting others up thing going on here.

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Stoicpeace 7d ago #7373180

Successful folk don't want to surround themselves with losers like me as well.

Of course not, because you act like a loser.

No one wants to be around people who only talk about their mental problems or thoughts of suicide all the fricking time. It's insufferable.

Start acting like a normal person and people will naturally want to be around you.

Has nothing to do with explicitly "lifting people up" and more to do with not being insufferable.

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Stoicpeace He/Him KWAB hypernovasaiz 7d ago #7373209

You're saying this to a dramatard :marseyfacepalm: .

Tbf, I don't act this miserable irl. Maybe introverted but not miserable. It's only been in the past few months I've been collapsing (mostly internally).

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CCAlkie they/them Stoicpeace 7d ago #7373497

This is why things like alcoholics anonymous tend to be religious in nature. If those drunks just talked about how fricked alcohol has made their life the entire time, meetings would spiral and people would be worse off. Instead, they turn to the service of God as it's just something to be in service of.

Distraction basically. A mental overcoming of the problem by filling the wallowing with something else.

Ideally, you just "get over it" and feel better about your situation by changing your outlook. That's not as impossible as online communities like to purport but it is very difficult, and quadruple so if you're surrounded by people saying it is.

But it's not easy and if you want something easier, you find something to distract yourself with until the main problem isn't as concerning. Exercise is a common suggestion because you can't be too in your head while you're physically exerting yourself but I found treating video games like a job helped me get over my alcoholism.

Good luck OP. Situations are never as bad as they are in your head and I hope we both remember that.