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I talk to ChatGPT about topics I feel society isnt enlightened enough to talk about

I feel suicide is heavily misunderstood as well

People just copypasta prevention hotlines and turn their minds off from the topic

Although people have identified a subset of the population that is just impulsively considering suicide and can be deterred, it doesnt serve the other unidentified subsets who are underserved by merely distracting them. or underserved by assuming theyre wrong even

The article doesnt even mean people are considering suicide for themselves, the article says some of them are, the top comment on this thread suggests thats why theyre talking about it

The top two comments on my version of the thread are assuming that we should have a savior complex about these discussions

If I disagree or think thats not a full picture, then where would I talk about that? ChatGPT

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Not suicidal myself, but I think I'd be curious to hear from someone suicidal whether it actually worked for them to read "To whomever you are, you are loved!" followed by a massive spam of hotline text.

It always felt the same as one of those spam chumboxes to me. But who am I to say, if it works it works. But does it work? Feels like the purpose of that thing is more for the poster than the receiver.

> then where would I talk about that?

Alert: with ChatGPT you're not talking to anyone. It's not a human being.

Which is perfect. In Australia, I tried to talk to Lifeline about wanting to commit suicide. They called the police on me (no, they are not a confidential service). I then found myself in a very bad situation. ChatGPT can't be much worse.

except in US where this info will be sold and you won’t be able to get life insurance, job etc

Lucky I'm not in the U.S. then.

I’m sorry Lifeline did that to you.

I believe that if society actually wants people to open up about their problems and seek help, it can’t pull this sort of shit on them.

Sadly, that's exactly what society does. I can only speak for Australia, but if you have suicidal thoughts then it is a very bad idea to talk to any service even partially funded by the government. ChatGPT, in the absence of strong safeguards of absolute privacy, is as good as anything.

As an example: Mark Cross, who was on the board of SANE Australia, stated that whenever people were put into seclusion would be reviewed. We know now that this was never the case, and still is not being carried out fully. This lauded psychiatrist didn't seem to even known what was happening in his own unit or EDs.

Listen to it here:

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/conversations/convers...

I didn’t write who would I talk to, I said where

A very intentional word choice

> People just copypasta prevention hotlines and turn their minds off from the topic

But ChatGPT does exactly the same.

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