Systematic reviews bear out the ineffectiveness of crisis hotlines, so the reason they’re popularly touted in media isn’t for effectiveness. It’s so people can feel “virtuous” & “caring” with their superficial gestures, then think no further of it. Plenty of people who’ve attempted suicide scorn the heightened “awareness” & “sensitivity” of recent years as hollow virtue signaling.

Despite the expertly honed superficiality on here, chatgpt is not about to dissuade anyone to back out of their plans to commit suicide. It’s not human, and if it tried, it’d probably piss people off who’ll turn to more old-fashioned web searches & research. People are entitled to look up information: we live in a free society.

If someone really wants to kill themselves, I think that’s ultimately their choice, and we should respect it & be grateful.

The problem is a financially exploitative psychiatric industry with horrible financial consequences for suicidal patients and horrible degrading facilities that take away basic human dignity at exorbitant cost.

You’re staying at an involuntary hotel with room & board, medication, & 24-hour professional monitoring: shit’s going to cost. It’s absolutely not worth it unless it’s a true emergency. Once the emergency passes, they try to release you to outpatient services.

The psychiatric professionals I’ve met take their jobs quite seriously & aren’t trying to cheat anyone. Electroconvulsive therapy is a last resort for patients that don’t respond to medication or anything else.