A last word is also a tree hole
On March 18, 2012, a microblog sent out regularly through the time machine appeared on the microblog of "go to dinner": "I have depression, so I die. There is no important reason. You don't have to care about my departure. Bye. " The next day, Jiangning public security confirmed that the post-90s female college student had committed suicide.
Perhaps because of the memorial microblog of her former idol Zhou Bichang and other stars, the microblog of "go to dinner" has received unprecedented attention, and her struggle in the last few years has finally been seen by everyone. Surging news has carried out text Emotional Analysis on all microblogs (including trumpets) of "walking for dinner", and thus generated an exclusive "emotional movement" for her.
Behind 53027 messages, the self rescue and mutual assistance of the desperate in the Internet tree hole (source: surging News)
Although she started using microblog at the end of 2009, she didn't start frequent microblogging until mid-2011. In order to express their emotions more freely, 'take a meal' also created a microblog trumpet. Gradually, she began to use the trumpet more frequently. She once said in the trumpet that 'losing control is the temperament of my trumpet'.
The so-called 'out of control' is probably the time when emotions erupt. For 'go to dinner', late at night is the time period when she sends microblogs most. Late at night, she often has to face the insomnia caused by depression. It seems that anything can make her insomnia: the sound of rain, hunger, the difference of a hundred fans, and depression.
In fact, patients with depression are not continuously submerged in depression. For 'walking rice', movies, TV dramas and food can often bring her some happiness. She once wrote, "it's best to watch the late night canteen with chocolate before going to bed (McDull tone).". However, depression is not so easy to cure. She will also see a doctor and take medicine with her mother. But the idea of suicide didn't leave her in the end.
After 3276 microblogs, 'take a meal' finally chose to leave the world, but what she probably didn't expect is that the message area under her microblog last words turned into a tree hole.
Surging news collected 53027 messages from July 16 to August 16, 2019, hoping to get closer to these people troubled by depression or suicidal tendencies.
Even isolated islands are surrounded by sea water
Not all the netizens who came to this tree cave to leave a message suffered from depression or had suicidal thoughts for a long time. Among the 9780 netizens who took the initiative to leave messages (compared with those who replied to other messages), more than half left a message only once. Maybe they just need to vent their depression temporarily.
However, many netizens who often come here have really regarded it as a safe house to vent their emotions. Between mid July and mid August, the people who left the most messages left 1684 traces here. It can be seen from his message that he is a boy of about 25 years old. His parents often quarrel. He doesn't want to communicate with others or go out of the house, so he spends most of his time on the Internet. He felt that "he has become an isolated island" and said that "anyway, I can't see the sun in 2020".
There are many people like him.
In 2017, 4.31 per 100000 Chinese urban residents died by suicide. Among rural residents, the number is 7.66. This means that in 2017, there were about 80000 suicides across the country, more than those who died of leukemia that year. More importantly, although China does not have statistics in this regard, the World Health Organization believes that behind every suicide victim is more than 20 attempted suicides, and the attempted suicides may continue to commit suicide, even until they complete suicide.
Although some suicidal behaviors are impulsive choices, many people who choose to commit suicide linger for a long time before making up their mind. Even if they feel sad and tired, many people will still be reluctant to give up their loved family and friends. The message in this tree hole may be their help signal.
Fei Lipeng, director of the crisis intervention research office of Shanghai Mental Health Center, told surging news that it is good for these people to give them an opportunity to feel safe and express themselves. However, simple self-expression is not enough. Director Fei once mentioned in his' one seat 'speech that' suicides have low self-evaluation, so what they need most is someone to recognize them, respect them and have emotional communication with them '. In this tree hole, about 10% of netizens are actually doing such a thing.
These netizens rarely or never take the initiative to leave messages, but often reply to others. The most enthusiastic netizens wrote 905 replies to 545 other netizens this month. Although some replies were just a simple 'come on' or 'hug you', her kindness still received some feedback. About one fifth of them thanked her or continued to talk with her. All netizens who want to help others get an average of 40% of the replies.
In addition to the virtual hug, it also needs the warmth of reality
Perhaps the support given by strange netizens can give these netizens with suicidal tendencies some warmth, but suicide intervention is not a simple thing. Bi Yu, a senior psychological consultant at the University of California, Berkeley, told surging news that "professional intervention is completed by specialized psychological counselors, psychiatrists and clinical social workers, which requires very professional knowledge reserve and a lot of clinical practice." Director Fei Lipeng also said that the staff of their suicide intervention hotline need to receive a year's training to take up their posts.
Suicide prevention hotline is a common mechanism in suicide intervention, but it is not very well understood in China. This mechanism also has some problems. In the collection of more than 50000 tree hole messages, only 6 netizens mentioned the 'hotline'. A person doesn't like the slogan of a suicide prevention hotline. A man thanked the operator who had answered her phone before. The two are considering turning to the suicide prevention hotline. Two others called the suicide prevention hotline, but no one answered.
In addition to the suicide prevention hotline, now some professionals begin to use algorithms to identify netizens with suicidal tendencies, hoping to intervene in time and avoid tragedies as much as possible. According to sixth tone, an English product of surging news, Huang Zhisheng, a professor of artificial intelligence at the Free University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, began to monitor the messages under the "walking meal" microblog through his AI robot on July 27 last year and assess the suicide risk of new messages. This algorithm will classify messages, which are 1 to 10 levels of suicide risk. Messages above risk level 5 will be sent to some volunteers, including many psychological counselors. Volunteers will carry out suicide intervention through private letters.
In fact, in addition to listening and encouraging, the greatest help that can be given by hotline operators, suicide intervention volunteers, or kind netizens is to encourage people with suicidal thoughts to seek help from professionals, or to seek help from family and friends who really live around them -- after all, once suicide really occurs, Only these people around have the best chance to take away the tools of suicide or rescue them in time. It's a pity that many people come here to talk, perhaps because they can't get the help and support of the people around them.
About 700 messages mentioned the attitude of parents, friends or partners towards themselves. But what they feel most in these people around them is not love and support, but criticism, incomprehension and neglect.
These feelings will have a greater impact on those who attempt suicide. Director Fei told surging news that attempted suicide has a higher risk of suicide than any other group. However, the attempted suicide did not receive enough attention and care. In many countries, 'if an attempted suicide is rescued in a general hospital, he / she must be evaluated by a psychologist after that'; But at home, he / she may go home after the rescue. They even often have to face the stigmatization of society.
On August 3, an attempted suicide left a message in the tree Cave: 'I'm really a complete loser. I even failed to die.' She committed suicide before and was rescued. After she came back, she faced 'the censure of relatives, friends and doctors'. On August 12, she put a microblog on her home page, which was the same as the last words of "go to dinner": "I have depression, so I'll die. There's no important reason. You don't have to care about my departure. Bye. " (this microblog has been slightly changed to protect privacy.)
So far, her microblog is still updated. That means there's still a chance to stop her suicide. However, under depression and social stigma, who can she rely on to pull her?