• tourist@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      Depending on how serious you are:

      Choose weed instead

      Or the crisis line. You probably already know where to find it. Help is available. You do not have to suffer alone. I love you homie.

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        9 days ago

        Just kidding, unless given that exact choice lol. Weed has been a great help this year. Love you too fam, appreciate the thoughtful comment.

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        Or the crisis line.

        What happens is that they “triage” you, where depending on how you answer their script you get cops at your door and a trip to hell on earth, or you are on hold for 20 minutes to speak with someone who also is reading a script and doesn’t give a rats ass about you.

        Maybe states that aren’t Oklahoma have mental hospitals which are preferable to drinking yourself to sleep, but who knows.

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          That’s awful. I’m sorry the local resources available to you are horrific. I’m sorry I sound like a fucking robot. I’m treading lightly. I’m not an expert. I don’t know what you or people reading this may be going through.

          If the crisis line is going to send a psychopath with a gun to your home, do not ring that line.

          There are international resources available that don’t dispatch armed units to your exact location. I haven’t used any of them, so I can’t vouch for them.

          There is no one size fits all solution for a crisis. As I understand it, the main goal is just to get the person in crisis talking to another human being. Apparently that helps a lot.

          It doesn’t have to be a crisis line. It could just be someone who might care.

          Please go well, friend. I truly hope you have brighter days ahead.

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            I’m honestly better. I’ve worked on a game plan to get the fuck out of this state.

            I just want to raise awareness of how absolutely shit mental healthcare is in southern states. We absolutely need a federal investigation into how behavioral health care crises are treated. Oklahoma City cops and jail guards have probably killed at least a dozen people this year, and there are no eyes on what’s happening.

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      9 days ago

      “Everyone and everything will end in my lifetime. I’ll be here to see it all crumble just before I am incinerated in the blast.”

      is another popular escapist fantasy.

      No one wants to believe they’ll just have to hobble through a slow and painful decline.