Comments please for suicide research tools

I've written on here many times as my obsession is with suicide prevention, which I have got caught up with in a big way, but do not want to die , but realise that we autistics have a very high risk of this. 

I've tried the usual things with drugs, psychotherapy etc and in my quest (as a research doctor) , I ve now set up a major research group , with many of the National experts in the country. It has taken years to get to this point but we are approaching a launch and I wondered about others opinions as to a useful avenue.

Existing services are largely medical ( with no evidence they save lives) and listening eg Samaritans (who NEVER give advice), but always listen and chat to ask you about your worries.

We will have a launch to thousands of people. and I feel we need a NEW service that is effective. Many suicidal thoughts relate to problems which are not medical (they are about relationships, finance, legal matters etc) so my idea is to give free access to any experts who wish to register and help with suicidal distress with anonymised (safe advice) I know my problems would have been helped with legal advice, rather than medical.

So FREE EXPERT ADVICE , but creation of a record to monitor peoples requests/ story / perhaps suicide risk factors and safety factors

Do you think this service would be useful and popular?  It would all be free and rely on people donating their expertise for free (anonymised). 

It would all be on an anonymised database (which could be researched) , but data GDPR security would be essential.

Any thoughts?

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  • It has taken years to get to this point

    Thank you for all the work you have put into this.

    It seems like a great idea to me. 

    Do you think this service would be useful and popular?

    I can't see any reason why it wouldn't be.

    we are approaching a launch and I wondered about others opinions as to a useful avenue.

    This site? MIND? Samaritans?

    Or do you mean a launch to the people who will be giving the advice to others, rather than the users of the service?

  • Mind and Samaritans do not help me , I feel humiliated by their superior attitudes and lack of any useful suggestions. This would be run by  Cambridge Uni Autistic research unit. Very academic approach

    We dont want to just duplicate existing services, but come up with something new and effective 

  • This would be run by  Cambridge Uni Autistic research unit. Very academic approach

    Is this the one also with the Bournemouth University?

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