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Suicide prevention in autism group

DaveAsperg

I have been running a small group of academics for suicide prevention in autism for a few months now and I feel we may get something useful. Included in the group are Prof Simon Baron Cohen and Sara Cassidy. We share ideas , but I seem to be coming up with the major ones.

there’s a group of autistic people which has met to discuss this and concluded we are never taken seriously, drugs are pretty useless, psychiatrists response is poor and inappropriate.

I have been trying for funding and help to have an autistic arm to the Stay Alive  app. The app seems well researched and well supported 

We could include a Database studying online suicidal ideation in Autism as well as specific routes of advice.

my big idea is to have an Alexa type artificial intelligence system to offer an online reply consultation with the computer. No humans involved as I have found Samaritans etc, kind but always avoid advice.

This system could give research based advice as my experience of mental health services are thats they are terrible with suicidal ideation in autism 

what do you think?

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  • hmm, when i think of bad thoughts i think perhaps its mainly due to feeling lonely and/or also a nihilistic feeling theres no point in life and no future and that everything that can be done is already done and exhausted and boring, and the future is gonna be lonlier and filled with only loss of the few loved ones you have resulting in a even lonlier darker future.

    but yet when i socialise its always like a emotional roller coaster anyway and results in me wanting to be left alone which then makes me lonely again and then even miss the annoying people i just told to feck off lol a vicious circle.

    not sure what everyone elses feels comes from, could be others have different things driving their dark thoughts to their cliff of demise.

  • in reply to Caelus

    Negative experiences in the past; especially in School.

    Also, false cheerfulness on TV and Film. 

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  • in reply to Caelus

    Are they happy? How could we possibly know, really? And there's so few of them they hardly really count in the big scheme. People think they do becuse they are on T.V. but their day is always short.

    I can be happy with quite a bit less than they (or many people I meet) seem to need. So they don't really affect me. I'm too focussed on sorting out my own kind of "happy" to worry about what other people might have.

    I get WAY more pleasure out of my £70 rescue cat, that I ever did when owning/operating my own light aircraft! (I've still got one somewhere, but it's a waste of time and money so I ignore it). Even doing narrow boats was way better than aeroplanes, but I'd always wanted to do aeroplanes since I was six.

    Sometimes what you think you want, is definitely NOT what you need.

    The pornstar lifestyle for example: I knew a guy who had everything right for him to naturally be an utter "lothario". Did it make him happy? Feck no!! I watched in disbelief for many years as he tried to make it work for him.

    The screen often lies. Because it mostly tells the truth, the lies can slip by you, very easily.

  • in reply to Desmond79

    ah the happy rich people faces on tv dont make me sad, they make me angry instead. i feel they dont deserve to be happy if no one else can be happy, they dont deserve such wealth for doing so little when we have to grind hard to scrape by for barely anything at all.