Suicide: Read This First

[DanaC]

Shaming people - never a good thing, whether it's fat shaming, or feminine shaming, or suicide shaming - it feels a bit like bullying ... and I don't really think it helps anyone.

Yes. Yes, and thrice yes.

The problem with heaping blame or shame onto people who are depressed, or struggling with weight gain, or addiction, or any of those things, is that actually, they're usually already well and truly overloaded in the shame department.

I just don't see that morality has a part in this. It's one of the things that winds me the fuck up about a lot of approaches to alcohol and drug addiction. It feeds straight into a self-destructive mentality and can make it so much harder to break away from damaging thought processes. Internalising a sense of yourself as 'bad' or 'immoral' or 'weak' because of the way your brain is wired up, is as senseless as feeling shame because you have spots on your face.