Thanks for your reply, especially the part regarding sending messages to contacts; I hadn’t appreciated on a deep level how bad that could be. Prior to writing this post, I hadn’t realized how varied people’s perspectives are on the topic of suicide prevention, and your comment (and others) made me realize that, if I choose to keep looking into this, I need to devote more thought and research toward the big picture stuff and talk to / read things by people with more direct experience before (potentially) speculating on possible interventions.
Doing research is always a great way to go. Getting feedback is important, because that’s when you’ll hear things you might not see with the internet search algorythm matrix. For some people it can be difficult to unlearn after they’ve already been exposed to too much information.
Thanks for your reply, especially the part regarding sending messages to contacts; I hadn’t appreciated on a deep level how bad that could be. Prior to writing this post, I hadn’t realized how varied people’s perspectives are on the topic of suicide prevention, and your comment (and others) made me realize that, if I choose to keep looking into this, I need to devote more thought and research toward the big picture stuff and talk to / read things by people with more direct experience before (potentially) speculating on possible interventions.
Doing research is always a great way to go. Getting feedback is important, because that’s when you’ll hear things you might not see with the internet search algorythm matrix. For some people it can be difficult to unlearn after they’ve already been exposed to too much information.