Fear of losing friends to suicide

Everyone seems to be "going mental" these days, one way or another.  It is deeply worrisome.  I just try to be nice and measured around other people in the hope that if someone is "on the edge" of doing something "ending" a warm smile or friendly word might support them just enough.

We can only do what we can do.  

I have experience of friends ending their own life, was a witness to one on the London UndergrounD and have made four attempts myself. Im confident there will be no more having understood and being diagnosed with ASC. Im on a Samaritans consultation panel where Im one of a large group with lived experience who they consult on issues around media releases, reports, suicude news for example, its a real privilege to be able to use my own dark experiences to help others 

Re facebook - Ive gained almost complete control over the algorithm and nothing triggering in this context reaches me but nevertheless I still find its incessance to be a problem and am currently on s break from it having deactivated my account 

The evidence of how social media is contributing to the global deterioration in mental health is becoming overwhelming, especially among young people, but as yet the large tech corporations are resisting serious change, hopefully though things will improve as happened with smoking and the tobacco companies 

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I have made the executive decision to take a break from Facebook for a week or so. I will bear that in mind but I haven't found them particularly helpful in the past.

I'm sorry to hear your family cut you off. You can call The Samaritans if you need support with anything, not just because you're suicidal. I've phoned them about things where I was not suicidal at all, but just needed to talk to someone.

My family cut me off years ago. Therapy is expensive and the samaritans are only there for crisis support for ones' self. 

I can understand what that's like, I would recommend to keep in touch with them, they might need someone to rant/talk to.

I had an ex (we was dating at the time) that had both autism and ADHD threaten to commit suicide, it drove me to almost end my life and caused my depression to spiral out of control, I still haven't fully recovered almost 4 years later.

I'm sorry your facing this alone. I've seen both sides with suicide (been suicidal myself years ago and had a close friend who couldn't cope with it and cut me off, then lost a different friend to suicide last year). Is there someone you can talk to away from the friendship group who can listen without being triggered e.g. a family member, counsellor/therapist or even The Samaritans? Someone you can discuss your feelings with safely?

I'm sorry to hear this, please keep in touch with eachother, it's important to have a support network and step back from the doomscroll of social's like FB/Twitter, definitely start a What'sApp/Discord group for support and wholesomeness and to check in on eachother from time to time. (Not a plug since I'm not connected to the dev team but) an app I found to be useful and has a great Discord server for support if friends aren't awake and online is Finch.
At times when it seems to be getting worse it's important to spread the net wide and not be alone with this. /hug