#I wonder how many suicides in general could've been prevented is the lifelines number would've been a shortened emergency number earlier | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

ghwosty · 2 years ago

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According to the info posters in the front office and breakroom at work, May is mental health awareness month. Personally, mental health awareness is a year round thing bc it's something I deal with, well, year round.

But still.

Check in with your people, especially the ones who seem fine outwardly, especially the ones that often default to being quiet about their internal struggles. Some people (*points at my reflection*) can get so tangled up in their own thoughts that they don't even realize that they need help or worse they think they don't deserve the help. Which is never ever fucking true. Sometimes it really does take someone from the outside looking in to be like "Hey, you seem like not your usual self lately. I care about you. Are you okay? Do you need help? I'll help you get the appropriate help if you want it" to make it click in their brains that "oh shit I do need help, and, oh shit I matter to this person maybe I deserve help"

And Also:

the U.S suicide and crisis lifeline's emergency number is 988

#also the 6th anniversary of Chris Cornell's death is this month..#I've been reflecting on it recently #doesn't even feel real that it's been 6 years already.. still feel like it was yesterday..#it fucked me up at the time bc I was also going through some weird dark mental shit #and I've said it every year since but I fucking miss Chris Cornell.. like fuck..#he was in the middle of a tour with Soundgarden and they were making a new album #they played a show THAT NIGHT #there pictures of his last performance taken just mere hours before he'd be gone..#those pictures are on my sideblog but they are hard to look at sometimes cause like.. what was going through his mind in those photos? :(#but that just goes to show you never know what someone is going through internally what demons they're fighting in their own head #I just wish he could've been helped #I wonder if 988 would've been around if he could've used it #I wonder how many suicides in general could've been prevented is the lifelines number would've been a shortened emergency number earlier

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