Might be a boomer take, but if you're willing to go so far as to not exist anymore because the world is whack, I don't think it's an unrealistic ask to show up to a city council meeting some time, run for local office, break some stupid-ass laws and feed the homeless or go to a protest, etc. If we all woke up tomorrow and decided to make a different world, we could. I would appreciate your help in making this a better place to live for all beings, it would really mean a lot to me.
We're very isolated and feel powerless. You can do all that but there's no guarantee you will see any change. In fact, you're more likely to become even more jaded when you find out your local council is dominated by business and religious interests.
Have you ever considered the possibility that you're being propagandized to respond to those feelings by commiting suicide instead of challenging the system that created those conditions? Look, all I'm saying is that if you kill yourself, you'll definitely have missed any opportunity you had at getting to yell at the cops or actually making the world you want to live in. If you try to make a better world and still want to end it all, that option hasn't been taken from you, but there's a non-zero chance you could help make things better. I'm doing what I can, and I'd really appreciate your help, whatever that looks like.
Straight up, get politically involved in your community
It might sound silly or inconsequential, but it will have an impact. Even a small impact is better than no impact.
You want a more pedestrian focused city plan to happen? More parks? More multi-family housing? Better bus lines? Get involved, talk to your city council, get your friends involved.
It might sound small, but all change starts small.
Edit: Hell a friend of mine was able to get enough people in his HOA together to get them to start looking into adding some more people focused stuff to their little community. Like adding a couple bike racks to the park in their neighborhood and blending the curbs in a bunch of places.
If you have friends to talk to about city planning, you probably won't kill yourself. We live in the age of loneliness. People are isolated and feel doomed and hopeless.
You say this but every morning I must battle my mental health to get out of bed. Only reason I’ll get out is because I have to go to work. In the days I don’t work I’ll just lay in bed until my bladder is on the brink of exploding and only then get up to piss. I don’t know how people find the energy to go to protests or do something with their lives. I only work, and I only work because I need money.
Look, I'm not where you are. I've been there, and I'm not going to talk down to you about it from the other side. I'm not going to pretend to know just what you're going through, and I'm definitely not going to tell you to just get over it. What you're feeling is real and legitimate. What I can say is that the way that you feel, as real as it is, is not a fixed, permanent thing. You haven't always felt this way, and you won't always feel this way. Everything is temporary.
I have volunteered weekly for 4* years, have given speeches at protests, whetpasted posters against nazis, and attend most council meetings. Still have massive depression episodes.
Just saying that it's not like both situations can't be true at once, and I would argue that if you do the former the later is more likely then an average person.
i was originally going to complain about this in text form but i couldn't find an applicable community so i decided to turn it into meaningless internet dopamine points
They have an up to date list of prevention lines in a lot of different mental health fields. If anyone is struggling with mental health I recommend checking it out to see if there are any helplines you can use. They also have a nifty lite FAQ entry about how to start the conversation since it can be hard for many.
Technically by inundating people with nothing but horrible news that's often sensationalized they're directly contributing to people becoming depressed and feeling hopeless about the would and therefore killing themselves but I'm tired and having a caffeine crash so I don't know what I'm saying at this point
Doesn't even mention the narrative that humans (the child listeners) are harmful to the earth, part of the pollution problem, should have fewer humans, etc.