distressedSince then, people have contacted me via email (when they had it), via my old email (which I rarely check), via my contact form, via Facebook, and via my Tumblr, to give me their phone numbers, to tell me not to hurt myself (which I did not threaten to do), to provide crisis hotlines, to make suggestions about medication (which I did not solicit), and in one case, to threaten to report me to the police as a suicide risk if I did not update my blog immediately to show that I was still alive.
Please. Stop. "Comment amnesty" did not mean "work harder to make sure that your words, your well wishes, your specific need to engage with my depression will be heard." I try to keep open dialogs on this blog, and I usually appreciate communication, but right now, this contact is intrusive, and upsetting, and seems to prioritize the needs of the contacting person above mine. Please. Stop.
This is why I do not talk when I am sad.
January 13 2014, 05:49:30 UTC 3 years ago
Seanan: thank you for talking about your depression. Thst's one of the annoying things, lots of people have it - including myself - and yet no one talks. You're doing so much good by sharing with us and people who don't specifically the ones who think book deal/happy marriages/kittehs/SOs/college etc solve EVERYTHING. I think between you and Jim Hines, you've done more to remind people that depression doesn't give a damn who you are and what you do, it just eats you.
Also I second the maglite comment, except I will do kitteh alibis as well :D
Hugs and thank you!
January 13 2014, 15:48:06 UTC 3 years ago
We have to start talking.