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deadbabe • yesterday at 11:44 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

What is the way forward? When people are staring down the barrel of being completely broke, in debt, facing homelessness, malnutrition, deteriorating quality of life until they ultimately die, what is going to emerge except some black swan of event of pure luck that gets you back to a bearable life? Just telling people it gets better doesn’t help, you must help them.


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Noaidi • yesterday at 11:48 PM

“People with cerebral palsy experience mental health conditions and psychiatric disorders at significantly higher rates than the general population.”

I’m hard pressed to blame this solely on his financial situations. Cerebral palsy changes the brain. It might be that he had another underlying mental illness that he was afraid to talk about because of the stigma. I mean, this is just guessing, but a lot of people live through our situations without dying by suicide.

I’m a three times suicide survivor and I can tell you it wasn’t anything financial just something that took over my body