For anyone who is or has been suicidal: when people say “it’s a permanent solution to a temporary problem” does that ever annoy you?

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It always just rubs me the wrong way, i feel like everyone who i have heard that from is just repeating it because they think it’s clever or something, i don’t know. Let me know what you think
P.s. not trying to be rude to anyone who has said this just being curious

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Lol yes it does annoy me. My clinical depression is not temporary. It’s something I’ll have forever and need to manage. But it’s not temporary.

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Honestly, it never bothered me because I always felt it was true and one of the things that kept me from taking that final step.  I knew deep down my feeling suicidal wasn't going to last forever and that taking my life, while I felt it would stop the pain I was feeling, wasn't the solution because I knew it would hurt so many other people in the process.

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I've never heard anyone say it but I do think it's insensitive and dismisses the fact that mental illness is a real thing.

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It's dismissive definitely because for some people mental illness is not temporary at all, it's permanent and life long and debilitating.

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No. Because it's often true.

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I don’t think it’s meant to be clever nor do I think it dismisses mental illnesses. A lot of the time, people will do it because they feel like it’s the only way out but I don’t feel like that’s always the case. I’ve heard of people attempting and regretting it when they get medical attention and survive. Its just that you literally cannot come back from that, so it’s a permanent solution but the issue at hand may not always be permanent but it depends

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I absolutely HATE people that say that suicide is selfish, the easy way out etc and etc. Those people have obviously NEVER been that low that you feel like the only solution is to kill yourself. It’s not a nice place to be in and I pray you get the love & support to help you through it 💖

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it's annoying sure but it doesn't just go away it's not always temporary for everyone ... so it's wrong to group everyone's feelings into being temporary , but i like to think there's some way that people can feel better and there's hope for their mental illness not to get the best of them and do something they can't undo 💙.

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I been suicidal and heard this before. I don’t like it one bit.

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I brush it off cause I know damn well its nevver a temporary feeling.

For anyone who is or has been suicidal: when people say “it’s a permanent solution to a temporary problem” does that ever annoy you?

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