What is passive suicidality and active suicidality? #shorts

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[Apothicca]

It’s so wild that I’ve always said I’m passively suicidal as a joke but it’s actually a thing

[jason]

*You walk into a hospital looking for help, knowing you have an active suicide problem, you get treated then you leave with a $5, 000 bill, now your suicidal again because your now 5K in debt.*

[eXtremeFX]

What Hurts is when friends find out you are suffering... they distance themselves. That is absolutely the worst thing a so called friend can do. So to all those who know someone suffering... Be a good listener...advise them to get help. Don't distance your friends suffering... just Care. 😉

[AfroSnackey]

My suicidality jumps from passive to active. I just want to love life again.

[catIing]

My aunt was admitted against her will because she told her therapist that she sometimes wished it'd all end. They took her phone, all her belongings, and didn't let her contact anyone for a week. We didn't even have any idea where she was until we called the police. While there she was harassed by a male nurse and forced to take drugs. Once they let her out, they had her seeing a psychiatrist every week for months, and the psychiatrist did nothing but check she was taking the drugs. They never made her better. They arguably made her worse, because at least before she'd been able to drag herself out at times. For the last 15 years of her life, she barely left her bed. The first time I saw her after her stay in the hospital, she broke down sobbing to my mother about how humiliated and scared she'd felt there. I will never not think that that experience had a part in her premature death. To this day I can't imagine a lot of things more terrifying than having my agency taken away "for my own good" like that, everything I know and love taken away while I'm at my worst, drugged against my will. I would never, ever admit to any kind of suicidality to any sort of therapist or doctor. There has to be a better way to make sure people don't kill themselves than this.

[evagabrysova]

I've been actively suicidal for three years (without real intend of acting on it.) I can't imagine how being in the hospital for that amount of time would help. I stayed there for a week in 2020 and it was very very stressful.

[laneatkinson]

"You know, if I were to die right now in some sort of fiery explosion due to the carelessness of a friend, well, that would just be okay." - Spongebob Squarepants

[pcrxlgx]

The day i found out im passively suicidal

[Bambale]

I just love how everything I feel has its own term

[danissa]

I'm a psychology student and your videos are helping a lot.

[saizen]

I don't care whether it's a car or myself who does it to me, I wish and think of getting hit or hurt badly to the point of non return more than once every few days, but having an idea or images of how I'd do it, happens less often, about 2-5 times a month.. like for example, seeing the ramp of the balcony when I feel very low, makes me wanna tie a rope on it and swing, but people would see me and they'd be traumatised... and my parents wouldn't be able to survive identifying my dead body, so... I'm still here, trying to do what I enjoy, trying to figure shit out within myself as much as I can. I can handle living like this for now, but if you need help, don't let yourself down and get help for your own sake and future life

[austin]

I think I've been passively suicidal for about 8 years, at this point it's just become routine, never acted on it or made any attempts but I've had these thoughts here and there, sometimes spending hours crying, for years

[Thundergoom]

Each day I find out more and more that I should have gone to a hospital several times as a child

[opulence_prime]

How does this way of thinking (when depressed) affect other areas in life? Like wanting to get fired from your job or putting off things to see what will happen.

[thisisme]

This is very well said..I like that you used examples to help explain each side of suicidality.

[gillian]

yes. thank you for talking about this!

[animefallenangel]

I once told a therapist that I sometimes felt like falling onto an oncoming train on my commute to work and they said that it was normal to think like that and wasn't "actual" suicidal ideation.

[BrightSanctuary]

Actually think that this is a flaw in the system I feel that passive and active should be treated the same. Because for one passive can turn to active in the blink of an eye, into I feel that passive is more dangerous is people who are passive can become more careless on purpose.

I'm considered passive suicidal and I know if I'm in a bad mood I will run out in the middle of a street and not care if a car hits me not looking for a street or formulating a plan I'm just going about my daily tasks and decide I don't want to wait I'll just cross and if a car hits me I don't care.

The reason I feel that this is just as dangerous is because it's a lot more subtle it'll happen in the moment where is active it's building up to that point.

I'm no psychiatrist I can only speak from my experience my experience says I think we need to rethink that inconsider that passive is just as dangerous and should be treated is just as much of a risk as active.

Actually wants sought help when I hit rock bottom and I became active but the organization I went to said that because I was able to hold back and I never actually attempted it was nothing they can do for me. And as long as we have this gap between these two this kind of discrimination can still happen

[honor]

I honestly had no idea there was such a thing as passive suicidality, What could we do to help get us out of being passive suicidal? thank you for sharing.

[evenamber]

I spent years in active suicidality before acting on it. It really is an emergency situation, my life quality could have been so much better had I been able to get help