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> what good another detox would do if it didn’t help him combat the root causes of his addiction through therapy

that’s how I feel about suicide hotlines and the random placement of suggesting people call them

People are not going to therapy if they're dead, and those hotlines are for helping people find local resources

Yeah and I acknowledge now that a large subset of suicides are totally impulsive, so any momentary disruption of the thought process is enough

I think for a different subset that none of the resources are fixing the underlying stressor or interest in ending self preservation