Serious comment for a minute: I know some of you "joke" about closing off the borders, and locking yourselves in your countries/political blocks, but I don't think you really understand what it is like to live like this, for an extended length of time, when you can't even visit family and friends in a neighbouring state of the country you are supposedly a citizen of...
So then, let me put this in perspective for you: if this lasts beyond the end of the year, I will be ending my life. That's not a cry for help. It's not a ploy for sympathy. It's just a fact. I do not want to keep on living in a country that treats people like this, with no hope of getting out, and no hope of being able to escape to somewhere where I can at least go to a fucking bar without threat of being arrested, or gee, I dunno, go to the fucking beach for a run, without a mask on.
So that's it. I can't live like this. And I won't be alone in that. So you can joke all you want, "Haha, I wish the EU would do this,", but this shit has real consequences for people's lives, and while I don't WANT to be a "victim" of lockdowns, border closures and all this bullshit, I just... I've had enough, and the end of my tether has been well and truly reached.
Another Aussie here. I tried to end my life at the end of last year. I've hit the lowest peak I've ever hit and lost all hope completely of having a future and decided to try and end it around the Christmas break. I was rushed to hospital and put under suicide watch where for the last 8 months I have been attending both private and group therapy.
In my time at group therapy since January, I have seen no less than 3 kids (all just about ready to leave school and enter the real world) end their lives...simply because they feel they had absolutely nothing to live for. They had lost hope all together and decided to end it.
I've been dealing with suicide all year. It's gotten to the point where I've had to detach myself emotionally because of it.
But it is sickening to my core seeing what this country is becoming. I saw three young kids at the prime of their life END IT because they felt they had NOTHING to live for because this country has fallen to fucking fear of a fucking virus that has a 97% rate of recovery. And no one in the media cares, no one in the government cares about the little people as they keep destroying lives.
So I feel ya brother! I'm just about fed up too...part of me wishes I did follow through last Christmas...but the other part of me believes we have to fight...for those we've lost...for those we will lose. We have to fight! We have to tell Kim Jong Gladys and Comrade Dan where to stick it!
But I understand the feeling, because trust me, I've been dealing with it all year. I am generally a very placid person, but this shit is making me angry to the core. The state of this country is a fucking joke right now! But we can't give up...we have to fight in some way shape or form.
Serious comment for a minute: I know some of you "joke" about closing off the borders, and locking yourselves in your countries/political blocks, but I don't think you really understand what it is like to live like this, for an extended length of time, when you can't even visit family and friends in a neighbouring state of the country you are supposedly a citizen of...
So then, let me put this in perspective for you: if this lasts beyond the end of the year, I will be ending my life. That's not a cry for help. It's not a ploy for sympathy. It's just a fact. I do not want to keep on living in a country that treats people like this, with no hope of getting out, and no hope of being able to escape to somewhere where I can at least go to a fucking bar without threat of being arrested, or gee, I dunno, go to the fucking beach for a run, without a mask on.
So that's it. I can't live like this. And I won't be alone in that. So you can joke all you want, "Haha, I wish the EU would do this,", but this shit has real consequences for people's lives, and while I don't WANT to be a "victim" of lockdowns, border closures and all this bullshit, I just... I've had enough, and the end of my tether has been well and truly reached.
Just some "perspective" for you.
Hear hear. I live overseas and it seems like I may not see my family in Australia for years to come. This is a thoroughly demoralizing way to live.
Another Aussie here. I tried to end my life at the end of last year. I've hit the lowest peak I've ever hit and lost all hope completely of having a future and decided to try and end it around the Christmas break. I was rushed to hospital and put under suicide watch where for the last 8 months I have been attending both private and group therapy.
In my time at group therapy since January, I have seen no less than 3 kids (all just about ready to leave school and enter the real world) end their lives...simply because they feel they had absolutely nothing to live for. They had lost hope all together and decided to end it.
I've been dealing with suicide all year. It's gotten to the point where I've had to detach myself emotionally because of it.
But it is sickening to my core seeing what this country is becoming. I saw three young kids at the prime of their life END IT because they felt they had NOTHING to live for because this country has fallen to fucking fear of a fucking virus that has a 97% rate of recovery. And no one in the media cares, no one in the government cares about the little people as they keep destroying lives.
So I feel ya brother! I'm just about fed up too...part of me wishes I did follow through last Christmas...but the other part of me believes we have to fight...for those we've lost...for those we will lose. We have to fight! We have to tell Kim Jong Gladys and Comrade Dan where to stick it!
But I understand the feeling, because trust me, I've been dealing with it all year. I am generally a very placid person, but this shit is making me angry to the core. The state of this country is a fucking joke right now! But we can't give up...we have to fight in some way shape or form.