now who’s in here just wanting to argue?
first of all, as far as the scope of this conversation goes, yes, it 100% is limited to people imminently about to kill themselves. i’m the one who started this conversation using those specific parameters. it’s literally the subject of the discussion.
second, i cannot possibly make my main point any more clear: “checking in” is not an effective form of suicide prevention. i’d wager that the overwhelming majority of mentally ill people who’ve killed themselves in this country had people who checked in, if not full on vibrant social lives. they still killed themselves. it’s a lifelong demon of an illness that deserves so much more legitimate attention, discussion, and care than it gets, indescribably so. tweeting “check in with your people y’all” every time someone kills themselves does nothing.
finally, the very first thing that i said to you was, “nobody is telling you to stop checking in on your kids”, and yet here you are still arguing that point as if i’m in here arguing otherwise. you made your ad hominem point a long time ago. nobody is arguing with it.