*POTENTIAL TRIGGER WARNING*
*TALK OF SUICIDE*
So now I'm caught up to the current thread (for now), and I can't even believe how quickly things have escalated.
And you know what, now that she's brought up suicide...
OK, this is especially heinous to me and I'm trying to be very careful about this...
Suicide is a particularly sensitive subject, IMO. The issue with bringing up suicide is that you never know who is reading and what they are struggling with, so that's why it's important to me that comments about it are sensitive and kind.
I don't know if she's received private messages or personal comments from anyone telling her to kill herself. People are awful, especially when they are angry. Honestly, somebody might have. But suicide is kind of like a bomb threat, if someone brings it up, you have to take it seriously. And if someone lies about it, they need to be called to account.
The fact that she's bringing it up, lumping everyone together, saying that it's the objective of any and all opposers... That makes me sick.
Katie, if you're reading this, I actively DO NOT want you to kill yourself.
If you're reading this, I actively DO NOT want you to die, for any reason.
She brought it up, so now I have to give even MORE serious attention to the idea that suicide could be something on her mind. Since I've started posting here I've tried to be very mindful of the fact that Katie and Spencer are real human beings, not targets to hurl abuse at. And regardless of if Katie is...how should I say?...contending with it or not, OTHERS ARE, or know someone who is.
But then, Katie goes and brings it up in an apparent sympathy ploy! If someone actually had told her to kill herself, it's pretty hard to imagine that she'd keep silent about it, only bringing it up now, after the fact. Silence isn't her strong suit. ESPECIALLY since she's strongly implying enough people have brought it up to her that her only conclusion is that *everyone* wants her to do it. That makes me sick even to type because it seems like more of her lies but has the plausible deniability of being true, and either way it's awful.
But that's the beauty of it for Katie, isn't it? You never know how someone is going to react to that, so it has to be taken seriously.
The fact that Katie could bring up suicide in such a cold-hearted, manipulative post proves even more to me that this is the kind of situation where the greater society HAS to step in and take measures to protect people. This isn't the kind of circumstance where people can turn a blind eye and leave someone to their own devices. This is why organizations like governments, police, hospitals and the like exist in the first place.
But JFC, this has gone to such extremes, it's sickening to read about it. If Katie is suicidal, (or has people regularly suggesting it to her) she needs to be stopped. And if she's fabricating it to play the victim she needs to be stopped. She's putting it out for public consumption and that is unacceptable.
There are no two ways about, it's time for people in authority to step in and at least try to offer her help. It's also time to put an end to the damage she's causing others. This has gone way too far.