QPR & Suicide Prevention

Most folks in my life, especially neurodivergent folks, know the pain and suffering that is suicide. From suffering ourselves to supporting a friend or loved one, a large portion of the population is not only familiar, but even practiced in interacting with it. Informal experience is a powerful way for us to learn these skills without formal education. However, sometimes academia can be helpful, especially when informal experience only goes so far. Here is an 1 & 1/2 hr training on QPR:



Topics include:
- QPR:
Question
Persuade
Refer

- identifying risk and saftey level

- identifying warning signs

-Myths

-Barriers

-the pathway to suicide

-protective factors

-intervention

Between scrolling through ban threads, and looming on wetfish and finding suicidal ideation a number of times, I thought it was appropriate to make this post. I get it... I've tried... and I've hurt, but we aren't alone in our struggle. ❤️

QPR is the standard being taught to social workers and undergraduate-graduate students as of 2024.

I think the way to prevent suicide is to make them stay alive enough that they could mentally change how they view the world. It would take around 3 years if you help them, and 6 years if they have to figure it out themselves.

i think i lack agency and direction in my life, well. i have a direction i want to go, but its a very small goal and my goals are extremely tiny compared to what i used to have. its a bit depressing.

Has anyone taken suicide prevention or qpr courses before? (If you've experienced or been around suicide, a lot of the content seems like comman sense. )

Has anyone taken suicide prevention or qpr courses before? (If you've experienced or been around suicide, a lot of the content seems like comman sense. )

Do the courses tell you to call the cops on suicidal people?

Quote from: Esmé on December 13, 2024, 02:43:37 am

Has anyone taken suicide prevention or qpr courses before? (If you've experienced or been around suicide, a lot of the content seems like comman sense. )

Do the courses tell you to call the cops on suicidal people?

Generally no. Technically you are supposed to call 911 if it is life or death, especially if someone is already hurt. However, the social work field is big on the whole, police generally make things worse especially for minorities, thing. For the most part, calling the cops Is generally avoided. Though, some social workers would say otherwise, but fuck those guys, they're class traders.


Anyways... as far as suicide, there is also the subject of manditory reporting. Ugh mandatory reporting is one of my sore subjects... not a fan. The problem is that things are too case by case, it's not entirely appropriate for a mandatory reporter to be cut & dry in my opinion.