So sad to always see flowers on the Pont Bessière in Lausanne. Please reach help if needed, we have the chance to live in a country where there are always a way to get some help, how little it might be it could save your life.

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  1. I find the symbolic violence projected by pretty much anything in Switzerland quite hard to be dealt with, especially when one is in a (hopefully temporary) bad spot. Nice cars, nice buildings, nice looking people, and there’s the person who has mental issues comparing itself with that. It’s rough.

  2. The fact that mental health is finally talked about is already a win. Its nothing to be ashamed of. It’s just really hard for others to understand. I had to realise that helping with mental health might just be as hard as dealing with it and we cant blame people that arent able too. There are many that try though, but it’s probably not the ones close to you.

    As a society we are in this together. When there is a fire I’m glad a lot of specialised people will mobilize for me in the middle of the night if need be. A fire can be spotted easily. Mental struggle not. A doctor will never judge you so being curageous and speaking up is absolutely necessary. Trust me I know.

  5. My Psychiatrist told me once when I was talking about suicide : you don’t know if it’s better afterwards.

  7. You never tried to reach help to say that !

    More than 5 years that I’m waiting on the AI to get help cause I’m incapacitated of work from mental health.

    5 years that I make 500 CHF per year…

    Depression is my second nature, I have no hope anymore in life. I just wait the days to pass.

    Switzerland rich country, rich for the richest that’s all. The little peasant, no one care about them!

  9. It is really sad indeed, and it’s all sort of people that take this way. I live near Fürstenlandbrücke & I have the feeling that it doesn’t matter if it’s Summer or Wintertime (the later one would be more explainable). A few years ago my Father’s work colleague’s Daughter who was 17 jumped down. Her boyfriend broke up with her. I was thinking why an ER was driving down the road & why a Woman was in total shock & had to get dragged up the road.

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    Just recently I walked down the forrest at night & saw 2 people with Flashlights “patrolling” the River that is below. I tought those might be from Fischereibehörde or something like that.

    I figured out that someone called the Police because they heard something “impacting” under the bridge.

  10. So a friend of mine recently became a father and he had a very hard time adjusting. He could not sleep at all and after 5 nights without sleep he was at the end of his strength. The midwife gave him a list with numbers to call. There were like 20 numbers or so on the list including KIZ Zürich and Winterthur as well as Notfallpsychiatrie Unispital. He called every number and everybody was fully booked. He could not have an appointment within a couple of days. They asked him if he was thinking about suicide. When he said no they would not offer him an appointment.

  11. I know for a fact if anyone in the Lausanne area, citizen or not, insured or not, needs help they can get it at the PMU in the CHUV. There are a few doctors I know who work there and they’ll do what they can to help you find the care you need with no bias. You just have to do the hardest part – ask.

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  13. Really sad to see that. I am pro choice when it comes to assisted suicide for terminally ill people, including those who have mental illnesses but jumping off a bridge certainly is not something I would ever support.

    I had to commute every day next to a suicide hot-spot like this bridge. One day, a man with a brown jacket was walking next to me while he was crying and loudly screaming “I have had enough. I will kill myself now. I hate this world. I will be gone soon.”. Just an hour or so I saw an online news article that a person had committed suicide and there was a picture in that article where I saw the exact same brown jacket the man was wearing.

    It just shows me that behind every suicide is a long story of suffering that we might not even be able to comprehend.

  14. As a vaudois who has dealt with some real bad days and has had periods where they’ve thought about jumping off the local bridge multiple times this past couple of years and has spent a decent amount of time near this place this post hits really hard.

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