An online 'guru' is okaying suicide, telling people that it is a 'reset button'.
How many times have you heard this statement:"You are receiving negative things in your life because you are putting negative things out there." Or this one:"The reason you are suicidal and depressed is because you do not pray enough."
And a large part of me thinks of religion as an organised collective bringing people together to worship and form communities based on the same staunch belief system, which often requires buying, eating and supporting certain things over others for what is ultimately economic gain . When religion fails you, when prayer stops helping, it is the human instinct to unfortunately search for something even more unreasonable.
A couple of years later I found myself staring down the barrel of a balcony in another attempted suicide. I have never been afraid of death. But I needed motivation to jump. Here I was, calling the suicide hotline to be saved, but not in the way you think. I was hoping the person on the other end of that line would push the go button, instead of the stop, that they would tell me to jump instead of stall. This, to me, was help. You know how the story ends because here I am.
[Teal Swan] asks her followers to physically lie on the floor and envision how they would take their own life and then to choose, whether to commit to life, or to commit to death
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