An app to help prevent suicide in ASD?? Comments please

an application isn't going to do anything for someone with crippling anxiety, depression or stress. It's like the mindfulness stuff that failing mental health trust send out in leaflets thats tell you to take a bath, have a cup of tea, splash cold water in your face or have a cold shower

What people in that situation need is face to face peer support to help the individual learn coping strategies' in a proactive way to help them get through stressful and anxiety inducing tasks. That is accessible, affordable and doesn't have a waiting list of over a year. 

Talking to someone how you feel isn't going to help you process it unless your with someone else with the same neurological processes then you have the barrier for many on the spectrum who have problems understanding and processing emotions

not me. I like research based comments of fact with numbers and further options if one route doesn't work.

I have found face to face stuff has been extremely damaging, got me arrested and prosecuted, which would never have happened with an app.

Mindfullness instructions written by an Aspie for suicide prevention are a rarity that I would welcome. 

I feel we Aspies have skills and understanding, that would enable us to produce extremely useful online advice articles, that neurotypicals cannot do.

Complaints systems now just send you around in circles

And where is the peer expert support? The research has not been done, the peers are just on here and vary in age and demographics

not me. I like research based comments of fact with numbers and further options if one route doesn't work.

I have found face to face stuff has been extremely damaging, got me arrested and prosecuted, which would never have happened with an app.

Mindfullness instructions written by an Aspie for suicide prevention are a rarity that I would welcome. 

I feel we Aspies have skills and understanding, that would enable us to produce extremely useful online advice articles, that neurotypicals cannot do.

Complaints systems now just send you around in circles

And where is the peer expert support? The research has not been done, the peers are just on here and vary in age and demographics

the problem is that two autistic people are not the same and requires tailored response of action in each individual case. Not all autistic people are in the same circumstance as the same individuals suggesting and coding the application solutions.

their is also the issue with the interpretation of language which could result in advice or instruction being miss understood and performed incorrectly.causing harm. Face to face support failed you because it wasn't funded or operated properly, i do admit are somewhat a problem.

Mindfulness is a load of absolute rubbish. It doesn't teach long term or sustainable techniques in managing stress, anxiety or depression and doesn't take into account the scale of neurodivergent individuals thought process or numerous sensory differences. 

Their are creative thing that are now starting to occur amongst the autistic community up and down the country. councils are making more social inclusions events for autistic individuals.

Autism partnerships are using technology and resources like gather,town to have mental health conversations and compare what coping strategies amongst autistic individuals are working.autistic individuals are at this point in time choosing not to attend them which will result in the opportunities being discontinued.

A lot of the mental health issue impacting both autistic and neurotypicals are environmental & social economic and until the entire world figures out that people need the basic of food, shelter, water and space the mental health crisis is going to continue and get worse.