On: 'I Don't Want to Die.' He needed mental health car...

[yieldcrv]

> what good another detox would do if it didn’t help him combat the root causes of his addiction through therapy

that’s how I feel about suicide hotlines and the random placement of suggesting people call them

[None4U → yieldcrv]

People are not going to therapy if they're dead, and those hotlines are for helping people find local resources

[yieldcrv → None4U]

Yeah and I acknowledge now that a large subset of suicides are totally impulsive, so any momentary disruption of the thought process is enough

I think for a different subset that none of the resources are fixing the underlying stressor or interest in ending self preservation