so many people still have zero understanding of mental illness. after stuff like this happens people love to post stuff like, “check in on your loved ones” and “reach out to someone if you need help”, but neither of those things are realistic options. you reaching out to a mentally ill person will affect whether or not they harm themselves 0.0%. and from the other side, nobody who is sick enough to want to kill themselves is going to reach out to anyone for help, because when you’re in that state of mind, talking to someone else sounds about as appealing as cutting off your own dick. it’s never going to happen.
there’s nothing that anyone can do to stop someone from killing themselves barring you actually being physically present and taking the gun from them, or talking them off the bridge. until the powers that be in this country actually give any fucks about helping out the mentally ill, this is what we’ll be left with: extremely vulnerable sick people from all walks of life, living among the absolutely clueless masses. there is nothing out there in the way of real help and understanding for mentally ill people, and that’s the real tragedy- marshawn kneelands will continue to live on the very edge of life and death, sanity and insanity, and very few people will actually know or care.