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17-Year-Old With Depression Asks r/RoastMe To Roast His Photo So He’d Have A Reason To End It All, Internet Responds
Depression has no face, so recently one guy from Russia decided to show his, for a chilling reason. Recently, u/MufasaQuePasa posted his picture to a subreddit called r/RoastMe, a notorious community specializing in saying the nastiest things about people they can think of. “17-year-old Russian with crippling depression,” he wrote. “Give me a reason to end it all.” Surprisingly, this time was different. Everyone went against community rules, trying to explain to the guy why he should keep on fighting. Continue scrolling to check out the heartwarming responses that will restore your faith in humanity. At least for today.
The story went viral on another subreddit called r/Wholesemememes as well
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Nobody living with depression wants to die, they just want to stop feeling pain.
I really hope so. It's not me, but I have family members battling mental illnesses all their lives and sometimes they've mentioned suicidal thoughts. One of them self-submitted in a hospital because of this once. Now they seem better, they are taking their meds, but the mental health care here isn't very good - just sending you to psychiatrist and giving you strong meds, no psychological counseling or something like this, so they are left to cope with all the strange things that go through their minds themselves. They aren't 100% all right, they are a lo better, but they still have depressive episodes sometimes. I talk with them and visit whenever I can, I don't know if I am of much help, but I try to do what I can.
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I'm in depression for too long. I don't know if I want to continue living or just ended my life. I always tried to commit suicide but always failed.
as far as i remember myself life has beaten me down countless times, i experienced war, hunger, assaults, illnesses, loneliness, fear, terror etc. wanted to end it so many times, and l'm so glad i didn't, because l'm happy right now, have peace i was never knowing, job l like doing, person supporting and loving, friends understanding and helping, even have beautiful view from window :) I've done nothing for it, nothing more than other people are doing normally, just survived, kept living and functioning. all that thing about "be strong, fight back, you must change yourself and start being other person" is bull**t, if you can't talk to professional and need to talk, you can even use internet, people are nice mostly even if they give wrong advice (mine can be also wrong, I don't know:) ). and one more thing, don't stay in poisoning environment, just avoid people and situations making you feel worse than usually (for example divorce was my great achievement and relieve). good luck
My dear Sora, please--do you have anyone to talk to? Is there a hotline you can call? Please, please stay with us. Please.
Yup. I can relate. It's hard to explain that mind-set. That horrible state of purgatory. Life sucks, but you don't wanna die. Sometimes self-destructive behavior is appealing to some, cos it causes and/or takes away the pain, but only temporarily. Having support is very important. As well as an understanding of mental illness, what it is, what people go through.
That's true.
The sad thing is that suicide ends feeling anything for the victim, and shifts the pain to those left behind.
A very good statement !!!
I live near a very famous and popular suicide spot called Beachy Head, it's a giant cliff. I also used to work in the mortuary at the local hospital. The saddest thing was when people who jumped had grit and gravel under their ripped apart fingernails, from when they changed their mind once they'd jumped and tried to claw their way back up or tried to stop themselves falling. Luckily a different hospital looked after child deaths but suicides were definitely the hardest to deal with.
[Trigger warning-I don't usually warn about what I post, but this is particularly sensitive] This reminds me of a friend-of-a-friends son, local boy who hung himself at the age of just 10 yrs old. When he was found he had scratch marks on his neck from where he changed his mind and tried to stop it; but it was too late. That was over 20 years ago, just devastating.
There was a guy that jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco that actually survived and he said he changed his mind the second his hands let go of the railing. I just wonder how many changed their minds that didn't survive. 😢
Thank you for the trigger warning. My teenaged brother killed himself and I wish their were more trigger warnings in the world for books/movies/podcasts that deal with suicide, especially youth suicide.
Dankay01 - There's a 2006 documentary about people who jump off the Golden Gate Bridge and I think the person you're taking about is interviewed in it. It's called The Bridge and if you haven't seen it, I recommend it. It's a really good documentary, it approaches the difficult subject matter with total compassion. They set up a camera across the bay which captured people jumping and then conducted interviews with the families of those that jumped.
Wish they'd erect a net of some sort to catch these people in popular suicide spots. Not like every single place you could potentially commit suicide but just in spots that are popular to do it at. If you really want to go through with it, you can jump out of the net and continue your decent but at least this way people have a kind of second chance if they change their minds mid way. Man I cannot IMAGINE what is going on in someone's head if they decide to take that action...I feel really bad for people with such debilitating depression.
dankay01 - too many. Maybe most of them.
I'm so, so glad that people actually offered to help him, it shows that there is still good in the world — perhaps, another reason we all should be fighting? This world has good, this world has bad. I am being quite hypocritical since there has been more than several times when I have considered taking drastic steps, but there has been times when I'm glad I didn't. Internet can bring us down, it can lift us up. I hope he's still alive and resumes fighting again. And bless all those helpful commenters.
"I am being quite hypocritical since there has been more than several times when I have considered taking drastic steps" → That's the very opposite of being hypocritical, so, please, stop thinking you are. You're obviously speaking from experience, a bad experience that you hopefully overcame, because, as you say, the world does not suck as it seems to sometimes. Stay strong, seek help if you need, and don't let irrational thoughts take the best of you. Our brains can be such merciless trolls sometimes.
" Our brains can be such merciless trolls sometimes. " — Thank you so, so much, Daria B, for that golden quote. Will be very useful to remember in stressful times. 💞
No problem, S. I'm glad if I can help. Feel free to use the quote and spread it if you like. Stay strong. ♥
Nobody living with depression wants to die, they just want to stop feeling pain.
I really hope so. It's not me, but I have family members battling mental illnesses all their lives and sometimes they've mentioned suicidal thoughts. One of them self-submitted in a hospital because of this once. Now they seem better, they are taking their meds, but the mental health care here isn't very good - just sending you to psychiatrist and giving you strong meds, no psychological counseling or something like this, so they are left to cope with all the strange things that go through their minds themselves. They aren't 100% all right, they are a lo better, but they still have depressive episodes sometimes. I talk with them and visit whenever I can, I don't know if I am of much help, but I try to do what I can.
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I'm in depression for too long. I don't know if I want to continue living or just ended my life. I always tried to commit suicide but always failed.
as far as i remember myself life has beaten me down countless times, i experienced war, hunger, assaults, illnesses, loneliness, fear, terror etc. wanted to end it so many times, and l'm so glad i didn't, because l'm happy right now, have peace i was never knowing, job l like doing, person supporting and loving, friends understanding and helping, even have beautiful view from window :) I've done nothing for it, nothing more than other people are doing normally, just survived, kept living and functioning. all that thing about "be strong, fight back, you must change yourself and start being other person" is bull**t, if you can't talk to professional and need to talk, you can even use internet, people are nice mostly even if they give wrong advice (mine can be also wrong, I don't know:) ). and one more thing, don't stay in poisoning environment, just avoid people and situations making you feel worse than usually (for example divorce was my great achievement and relieve). good luck
My dear Sora, please--do you have anyone to talk to? Is there a hotline you can call? Please, please stay with us. Please.
Yup. I can relate. It's hard to explain that mind-set. That horrible state of purgatory. Life sucks, but you don't wanna die. Sometimes self-destructive behavior is appealing to some, cos it causes and/or takes away the pain, but only temporarily. Having support is very important. As well as an understanding of mental illness, what it is, what people go through.
That's true.
The sad thing is that suicide ends feeling anything for the victim, and shifts the pain to those left behind.
A very good statement !!!
I live near a very famous and popular suicide spot called Beachy Head, it's a giant cliff. I also used to work in the mortuary at the local hospital. The saddest thing was when people who jumped had grit and gravel under their ripped apart fingernails, from when they changed their mind once they'd jumped and tried to claw their way back up or tried to stop themselves falling. Luckily a different hospital looked after child deaths but suicides were definitely the hardest to deal with.
[Trigger warning-I don't usually warn about what I post, but this is particularly sensitive] This reminds me of a friend-of-a-friends son, local boy who hung himself at the age of just 10 yrs old. When he was found he had scratch marks on his neck from where he changed his mind and tried to stop it; but it was too late. That was over 20 years ago, just devastating.
There was a guy that jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco that actually survived and he said he changed his mind the second his hands let go of the railing. I just wonder how many changed their minds that didn't survive. 😢
Thank you for the trigger warning. My teenaged brother killed himself and I wish their were more trigger warnings in the world for books/movies/podcasts that deal with suicide, especially youth suicide.
Dankay01 - There's a 2006 documentary about people who jump off the Golden Gate Bridge and I think the person you're taking about is interviewed in it. It's called The Bridge and if you haven't seen it, I recommend it. It's a really good documentary, it approaches the difficult subject matter with total compassion. They set up a camera across the bay which captured people jumping and then conducted interviews with the families of those that jumped.
Wish they'd erect a net of some sort to catch these people in popular suicide spots. Not like every single place you could potentially commit suicide but just in spots that are popular to do it at. If you really want to go through with it, you can jump out of the net and continue your decent but at least this way people have a kind of second chance if they change their minds mid way. Man I cannot IMAGINE what is going on in someone's head if they decide to take that action...I feel really bad for people with such debilitating depression.
dankay01 - too many. Maybe most of them.
I'm so, so glad that people actually offered to help him, it shows that there is still good in the world — perhaps, another reason we all should be fighting? This world has good, this world has bad. I am being quite hypocritical since there has been more than several times when I have considered taking drastic steps, but there has been times when I'm glad I didn't. Internet can bring us down, it can lift us up. I hope he's still alive and resumes fighting again. And bless all those helpful commenters.
"I am being quite hypocritical since there has been more than several times when I have considered taking drastic steps" → That's the very opposite of being hypocritical, so, please, stop thinking you are. You're obviously speaking from experience, a bad experience that you hopefully overcame, because, as you say, the world does not suck as it seems to sometimes. Stay strong, seek help if you need, and don't let irrational thoughts take the best of you. Our brains can be such merciless trolls sometimes.
" Our brains can be such merciless trolls sometimes. " — Thank you so, so much, Daria B, for that golden quote. Will be very useful to remember in stressful times. 💞
No problem, S. I'm glad if I can help. Feel free to use the quote and spread it if you like. Stay strong. ♥