#Randomly generated suicide prevention tips

[king-dra]

I already have an LGBTQIA+ mental health app, its called "Tumblr"

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Writing Mad Characters

Okay this is a bit awkward because I had this question copypasted into Google Docs I use to draft my answers, and I realized I've lost the question in my inbox (which is being flooded).

So...I'm so sorry for whoever asked this question. Sorry for the delay because I was struggling with life in general for the past month and definitely SORRY for losing your question (－‸ლ)

Q: I'm writing a story where a major character is slowly spiraling into madness where small details kinda hint into the downfall right before the bigger details appear and then it the floodgates open. Is there anything I should avoid? Anything that I should keep in mind? Anything that I should research?

Things to Avoid

“Mad” or “Insane” is too general. Writing a cliched ‘crazy’ character who randomly talks to imaginary people and lashes out at strangers, you’ll offend a whole bunch of people who've gone through/have mental illnesses. Read up on existing mental conditions (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic disorder and borderline personality disorder, etc.) to see what your character might have. 

Words like “mad” “crazy” or “insane” aren’t enough when you’re describing their status. As mentioned, these words hardly mean much when it comes to providing a clear description.

Contradicting yourself. Throwing random unhinged symptoms here and there wouldn’t work. In fact, you must have a clear arc on which they’re traveling and ensure that your “hints” are all getting at something.

Making the character overly destructive or harmful to others (when nothing really justifies it)

Justifying damaging behavior with this “madness”. Mad or not, your character will still have motives and goals that drive them forward. 

Making them look incompetent just the fact that they have a mental condition that makes them appear “mad” to others shouldn’t prevent them from achieving success. In fact, they may be even more cool-hearted and logical when it comes to their obsessions/goals. 

Research Tips

Narrow down the mental conditions your character experiences. Even if it’s a fictional condition, try basing it on existing ones and building on top of them. 

Take some time to study characters and/or real clinical cases that resemble the kind of madness you’re going for. 

- Anxiety Disorders: excessive fear and dread (ex. phobias) - Mood Disorders: persistent swings in mood or persistent feelings that interfere with daily life (ex. Depression, bipolar) - Psychotic Disorders: disordered thinking (ex. schizophrenia) - Eating Disorders: extreme emotional attitudes toward food (ex. Bulimia, anorexia) - Impulse Disorders: unable to resist urges (ex. Kleptomania, pyromania, gambling) - Personality Disorders: extreme inflexible personality traits (ex. Anti-social disorder, OCPD) - Past Traumatic Stress: persistent, frightening memories leading to emotional numbness 

Does your character have empathy?  

A sociopathic kind of madness is different. 

General Writing Tips for Spiraling into Madness

Establish a Baseline 

A lot of factors (stress, family history, innate personality, trauma, etc.) can contribute to madness, but it is not going to happen in a week. Define the existing mental and physical conditions your character has, and start from there. 

If you’re aiming for suicidal tendencies at the end, you want to start with symptoms of depression (a condition that may lead to suicide) - growing apathetic, erratic sleeping patterns, irritability, etc. 

This is also the stage where you want to plant some triggers that’ll go off later.

Trigger Events

A perfectly sound character suddenly spiraling down the madness route due to a single accident or traumatizing event isn’t convincing. 

A madness “snap” denies the reader the experience of watching the character’s journey into madness and how they feel about it. 

Internal Conflict (antagonist in himself) 

You must remember that madness is incurable. If someone could “cure” themselves by eating healthy, exercising and taking a few pills, it wouldn’t be much of a madness, would it? This means that the worst antagonist is going to be the character themselves, or the part of them that’s been taken away. 

Show how they are frustrated with themselves, scared of themselves, angry at their “alternative self”. The experience of not knowing yourself is a whole journey of its own.

Physical Manifestations/Quirks

If your character has a routine, show how they break down. 

They might develop habits that they otherwise would never allow themselves to have, perhaps as an effort to “keep this madness out”

Deteriorating Relationships

Depict how the character’s madness impacts his closed/loved ones. In the earlier stages, those close to him might be faster to notice and accept the signs of madness, even if the character denies it him/herself.

The first signs of madness might show when the character is trying to deal with difficult relationships - like losing patience and being unable to pick up subtle social clues.

Choosing Obsessions Over Primal Urges 

For these characters, obsession can take over a person’s normal urge to eat, sleep or even live. This can lead to, more or less, suicide. 

Example: In Black Swan, Nina’s obsession with becoming the perfect ballerina drive her to insanity, to the point where she doesn't mind dying on stage for the show.

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Vanex [Vanilla]{1.13.2}{Greylist}

VANEX.ONLINE Minecraft has changed a lot within the past few years. Factions, Mini-games, Role-play etc. There isn't a lot of Vanilla. Why? Because server owners want to make money so they make pay to win servers.

Important information:

Version: 1.13.2

Unstaffed

Keep inventory: False

World Border: 1,000,000

Nether Roof: Enabled (You can glitch on top of the nether roof to travel long distances quickly. 1 block in the nether is 8 in the over-world.)

Player slots: 100

Difficulty Hard

Rules:

Do not use a hack client.

Do not spam or flood chat.

Do not deliberately cause lag (lag machines)

Commands:

/msg

/reply

/suicide

/help

Warning:

You cannot apply for staff.

The server does NOT have commands like:

/tpa

/spawn

/sethome.

Why? Because this is a Big Boy Pure Vanilla Server. Almost every single server has these commands, but not this one. You do everything the good ol' Vanilla way. If you need to travel to a friend, glitch onto the nether roof and travel quick distances? Don't know how to do that, look it up on YouTube. Need to /sethome? Sleep.

There is no spawn, when you join you will be randomly spawned within a 300x300 block radius from 0, 0.

Questions that you may have?

Why is there no spawn? I give people the freedom to do whatever the want and build where ever they want. Why is there no commands? As I stated, every other generic factions/towny/economy server has those, and all it does is prevent you from travelling. Will the world ever reset? I do not plan to reset the server. Why do you not have any staff? Vanex.online is a small vanilla server, console shows when people are hacking and will be punished. Staff is un-needed for this server as it is very simple to ban a hacker as I have experience. Do you need developers for new plugins? No I do not.

Server TIPS:

Hacking or cheating on this server is bannable, however if you manage to find and use a glitch using a vanilla client, you will not be punished.

The nether roof is enabled so travelling shouldn't be an issue if you want to quickly get far away from spawn, every block in the nether is eight in the over-world.

This server doesn't have an anti-cheat, so if you encounter a hacker, report it on our server discord immediately. vanex.online

Discord: https://discord.gg/aHSnePr

YouTube Videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5akVAEvz_0U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vev__RC6LaE

PMC Page: https://www.planetminecraft.com/server/vanex-online/

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The 20 :: Your Daily Cup of Culture (#210)

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Your Daily Cup of Culture...

Here's The 20 things I found on the internet worth sharing today. Ventipop's Grind posts can be fun, serious, thoughtful, some great new song or something to buy. If not, you can get your money back.

1. New Song of the Day - "The Lifeboat" by Frank Turner - Frank Turner wrote a song specifically for Ventipop:

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4. Pop Quiz, Hotshot! - What's your secret nationality? (Apparently, I'm a closeted Ethiopian)

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7. McSweeney's Me! -Quiz: Are You A Modern Conservative?

8. Obligatory Coffee Link of the Day - The world's first coffee shop that gives 100 percent of its proceeds to mental health education and proactive suicide prevention, Sip of Hope also certifies all of its employees in Mental Health First Aid, and they're available to talk with any visitors who need to unload.

9. Busy With Boredom - The thing I noticed most in all of these 1970's snapshots was the absence of phones, computers and that blank screen face you see on most people nowadays. Back then, folks knew how to be bored.

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11. "You don't have to kill me" - Why Does Every Soccer Player Do This?

12. Waste of Space - I've been saying it for years and now it's official: Screw you formal dining room! - Our homes don’t need formal spaces

13. TV Nods - This year’s Emmy nominations spotlight innovative comedy series and stars �� but on the serious side of the spectrum, the Academy’s choices are a snore. - *Related: Sandra Oh Makes History.

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15. First Signs - Here's your first look at M. Night Shyamalan's Glass

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