Suicidal thoughts online: from a joke to the 024 (Spain’s suicide hotline)
A message announcing suicidal thoughts gets fifteen replies: jokes, emotional support and the 024. Medication only eases symptoms, one user says.
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Suicidal thoughts online: from a joke to the 024 (Spain’s suicide hotline)
A message posted in an online forum describes a situation: someone announces they are thinking about taking their own life. The replies —about fifteen of them— map the reactions triggered by verbalising suicidal thoughts on the internet. Some trivialise the matter with a joke. And some reply by citing the 024 hotline.
From flippant comments to referral to health services
Among the responses, opposing registers coexist. Some minimise the message or turn it into a joke. Others respond with direct emotional support: reminding the person who is struggling that people care about them. And a third route points to family, friends, a psychologist and a psychiatrist, as well as citing 024.
Is medication enough to get out of distress?
One participant’s experience qualifies the role of medication. This participant describes that it removed “the worst part” of the problem, but that it is still there, “dormant”, and can only be alleviated. According to their account, extreme anxiety can return at any moment. In their case, medication relieves but does not fully cure.
In the thread, alongside the jokes, there is advice to talk to family or friends, see a psychologist or psychiatrist, and the 024 hotline.
A message posted in an online forum describes a situation: someone announces they are thinking about taking their own life. The replies —about fifteen of them— map the reactions triggered by verbalising suicidal thoughts on the internet. Some trivialise the matter with a joke. And some reply by citing the 024 hotline.
From flippant comments to referral to health services
Among the responses, opposing registers coexist. Some minimise the message or turn it into a joke. Others respond with direct emotional support: reminding the person who is struggling that people care about them. And a third route points to family, friends, a psychologist and a psychiatrist, as well as citing 024.
Is medication enough to get out of distress?
One participant’s experience qualifies the role of medication. This participant describes that it removed “the worst part” of the problem, but that it is still there, “dormant”, and can only be alleviated. According to their account, extreme anxiety can return at any moment. In their case, medication relieves but does not fully cure.
In the thread, alongside the jokes, there is advice to talk to family or friends, see a psychologist or psychiatrist, and the 024 hotline.
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