Mental Health Suicide Increases.

[Meth novice 79]

Anyone else seeing spates of suicide/attempts on the rise in their area?
Do you think it’s Covid related or something else?

We’ve had 4 attempts within 5 blocks from my home (3 successful, one lady just went for an unintended swim and another in ICU) in the last 2 weeks.
The small town I come from lost 5 of their adolescent boys over 6 months.

Before that I might hear of one a year.

All had one one thing in common, they were all recreational users of some kind.
What’s goin on?

 

[Nurse Ratched]

Anyone else seeing spates of suicide/attempts on the rise in their area?
Do you think it’s Covid related or something else?

We’ve had 4 attempts within 5 blocks from my home (3 successful, one lady just went for an unintended swim and another in ICU) in the last 2 weeks.
The small town I come from lost 5 of their adolescent boys over 6 months.

Before that I might hear of one a year.

All had one one thing in common, they were all recreational users of some kind.
What’s goin on?

I have had at least 7 in my area in the last 6 months. And that is just crazy because I live in a very small, rural township.

4 of them were two different married couples. The one couple OD'd the same night together after an alcohol and Xanax binge. Some say they injected fent.....some say not. The other couple OD'd 6 months apart. First the wife , then the husband. They were heroin addicts that likely bought fent. These 4 were accidental though, I believe.

The other 3 were suicide. A 17 year old hung himself because he was facing some serious court charges and was into methamphetamine really bad. The other 2 shot themselves ( both male ) and rumor has it that it involved drugs.

So freakin' sad that people can't see a way out of their own personal hell. There are so many programs available ( even in this hick town ) but they just didn't see a way out. Broke my heart.

 

[Meth novice 79]

I have had at least 7 in my area in the last 6 months. And that is just crazy because I live in a very small, rural township.

4 of them were two different married couples. The one couple OD'd the same night together after an alcohol and Xanax binge. Some say they injected fent.....some say not. The other couple OD'd 6 months apart. First the wife , then the husband. They were heroin addicts that likely bought fent. These 4 were accidental though, I believe.

The other 3 were suicide. A 17 year old hung himself because he was facing some serious court charges and was into methamphetamine really bad. The other 2 shot themselves ( both male ) and rumor has it that it involved drugs.

So freakin' sad that people can't see a way out of their own personal hell. There are so many programs available ( even in this hick town ) but they just didn't see a way out. Broke my heart.

It’s especially difficult to absorb when they’re younger too. you know that if they’d just waited it out, it always gets better.

A girl I went to school with had her 19 yr old son run onto a freeway and into the path of a truck doing 100km an hour.
That says to me both, spur of the moment decision, and desperation to end his suffering.

They were giving everyone double their money on unemployment benefits, it returned to it pre Covid amount couple weeks ago leaving a whole heap of people with habits they can no longer afford and a drug purity that went down the toilet as soon as our import market halted.

Leaves me very concerned for our youths welfare.

 

[stardust10]

That's devastating^
The system is fucked. How many more life's have got to be taken untill attitudes change in relation to mental health an addiction, poverty etc. At top level and locally. They should just let people keep the money rotten bastards making these decisions must not have a conscious to be able to sleep at night, greedy low life scum fucks who think they're more important because of their positions in life. All the jobsworth people that contribute to this bias can gtf as well.

For the record there is flowers placed all over here for a lot of people including people younger than myself I knew from school. There's even benches set up everywhere in memory and to raise awareness. The families have to do something because its an epidemic and God knows the government local and general won't spend the people's tax's to help. All I see is a fake arse attempt at eradicating stigma 'its ok not to be ok' etc but without the investment for tangible treatment options e.g. hire more fucking psychologists NHS!! I'm from the UK as well and we have it lucky I'm sick of it and before I ever off myself I'm at least going to try my best to make a difference. I'm starting a volunteer position soon hopefully with a local charity we will take it to the local MP if they haven't already, who has no Real insight btw, really I have met her on a few occasions when she would turn up at my volunteer events for a photo dumb herself down to 'relate' (disrespectful and ignorant) then fuck off.

 

[Deleted member 521610]

the suicide rate was always high where i was from. I lost distant relatives to suicide and many friends over the years. Plus i have attempted suicide since i was only 8 a few times. Last year i was going to go through with it while dealing with the comedowns of mdma abuse and lost all hope for life during covid.

Its getting fucking tough in NZ the cost of living is so fucked and i don't have a cent to my name just fuck loads of debt now. If i never did drugs i would have alot more money. But i cant live without them. But now i need to somehow find a way to make some money asap before i truly get fucked over.

The stress is really high for alot of people with job losses and just the shitstorm the world is facing. Im pretty much numb to suicide now. I know at least 15 + People personally that have killed themselves over my life span. And its only getting worse in the hood where i grew up but now people are becoming more and more crazy and spun out and stabbing each other.

Now its like i have no reaction when i hear a friend killed himself instead i hope he finds peace in the afterlife and feel relieved they are no longer suffering in this twisted world.

 

[Meth novice 79]

It is everywhere then
Not drug purity, society.

I was hoping we just had a few bad batches go through but that was just wishful thinking.

Fuck society.
My youngest daughter made an attempt on her life age 13.
Seemingly from nowhere, there didn’t appear to be much more of a trigger than the usual kid stuff.
She’s 16 now and with retrospect blames the online space for her reasoning to attempt, saying suicide had been normalised in her culture.
That’s oversimplification, but I understand her point.

Why the hell aren’t we standing up and demanding more?
I’m Aussie, there’s both a UK And NZ reply here. Aren’t we among the best democracies in the world?
Why don’t we actually have a say?
There’s more poor people that wealthy? If a vote is all that counts, we have that?

oh boy. I’m on my soap box.
Yep. Come down lol

 

[stardust10]

@meth novice
The coke here, caning it all weekend then back to work mon-fri to do it all over again is big factor. It was bad before covid now it's worse.
And they want us to feel powerless and embarrassed and make it harder for us bottom feeders to liberate
I feel like it has definitely been normalised to an extent I can also see your daughter's point. If it's constantly there being promoted (which I agree is good in a sense because stigma is real) people will become desensitized maybe? And without adequate funding for treatment... Where does this lead? Nowhere productive imo. The world is fucked no wonder people feel suicidal I'm clearly on one today it angers me.

 

[Meth novice 79]

@meth novice
The coke here, caning it all weekend then back to work mon-fri to do it all over again is big factor. It was bad before covid now it's worse.
And they want us to feel powerless and embarrassed and make it harder for us bottom feeders to liberate
I feel like it has definitely been normalised to an extent I can also see your daughter's point. If it's constantly there being promoted (which I agree is good in a sense because stigma is real) people will become desensitized maybe? And without adequate funding for treatment... Where does this lead? Nowhere productive imo. The world is fucked no wonder people feel suicidal I'm clearly on one today it angers me.

Where I live everyone’s either on meth or ‘juice’ (fantasy, some cheap ass version of GHB, I don’t even know, just a liquid that makes people look ridiculous/almost vegetative)
Between the ups of the meth and the downs of the juice it kinda seems like no one knows if they’re coming or going anymore.
A lady last week tried to throw herself off a bridge near my home. The water beneath was maybe a meter drop? What did she think would happen?
She got wet?
Not entirely in control of themselves obviously.
But it’s always deeper, always.
we can’t even scratch the surface in a conversation.