Israel is grappling with a dramatic increase in post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide among its troops after its two-year assault on Gaza, precipitated by the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on southern Israel. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/16/world/israel-soldiers-ptsd-suicide/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #israel #israelhamaswar #middleeast #mentalhealth #suicide

A Sapporo court on Friday ordered the government to pay ¥1.1 million in damages to the mother of a Ground Self-Defense Force member who died by suicide in 2012. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/09/japan/crime-legal/sdf-government-lawsuit/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #sdf #gsdf #bullying #hokkaido #japanesecourts #suicide

Volunteers from the Children and Families Agency have launched an awareness-raising campaign to alleviate the anxiety of children who struggle to talk about their problems with adults. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/07/japan/children-problems-campaign/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #suicide #children #bullying #schools

I am at a serious loss for words and yet I need to write something. A #eulogy, maybe.

Yesterday evening, here on Fedi, I read a #suicide note by @Crimekillz , my first girlfriend of eight years and one of my closest friends and soul mates for most of our lives.

This morning, I learned from her family that she had indeed passed away yesterday night after purposefully overdosing on medication near her home. As if for her, it started snowing here for the first time this winter just now.

I hardly know what to write at this moment, I'm sorry.

This appears as an immediate consequence of her being bullied at #39C3, but it follows a life of serious tragedy and hardships. Autism, ADHD, schizophrenia, DID; a broken home, child abuse, bullying, exclusion. Tons of unhealed trauma, and myriads of complex and contradictory personalities stacked on top of each other.

She was all that and one of the most wonderful and interesting people I ever met. She was the most important person in my life for most of my existence.

I met Jenny on the German Minecraft forums when I was 13 and she was a couple of years older than me. She was my first and only best friend. She made me realise I was queer, she was the first person I ever loved. We started dating on the 1st of March of 2015, and we were together for almost eight years. We went through the teenage years, through both our transitions, our political socialisation, our earliest life stages and experiences. We eventually moved and lived together as what we used to describe as soul mates. We wanted to build a family.

I can not overstate the absolute integral role she has played in my life, my self-discovery and journey in my identity, my teenage years and early adulthood.

While eventually we drifted apart due to different social circles and an unfortunate third-roommate situation making us move to separate apartments, we split up amicably and kept in regular contact til the very end.

Jenny was one of the most wonderful and interesting people I knew. There was no other person in my life I have had this deep of a connection to as her.

There is absolutely nothing I could write here that could possibly do her justice in any way, or all the moments we've shared together.

She was a complex person of many contradictions. She was a lifelong rebel, and a fragile, deeply vulnerable soul at heart. She was an anarchist and a nonconformist, a furry and therian, a philosopher, an agender woman, a great girlfriend and someone who would have found it rad to be called a gender terrorist, a punk and a psychonaut, a queer bean, a kind soul, a hacker and cybercriminal in the best possible sense.

I would like to extend my sincerest condolences to everyone else who knew her and most importabtly, did not contribute to her passing away.

I would like to extend a hearty fuck-you to the people in the #Chaosbubble who stood by willingly as she was excluded and bullied; to her abusers; to the enablers. To the people who gave not a single damn about her feelings, who pressured her into a life of overstimulation and constant restlessness, who excluded her for superficial reasons, who abused therapy speech and called her "problematic" for being who she was.

May she be dearly missed, and rest in power.

To quote her last public words:
"There is beauty in darkness, I want my funeral to be a celebration, make it a rave. Maybe Luna has time to DJ."

I am at a serious loss for words and yet I need to write something. A #eulogy, maybe.

Yesterday evening, here on Fedi, I read a #suicide note by @Crimekillz , my first girlfriend of eight years and one of my closest friends and soul mates for most of our lives.

This morning, I learned from her family that she had indeed passed away yesterday night after purposefully overdosing on medication near her home. As if for her, it started snowing here for the first time this winter just now.

I hardly know what to write at this moment, I'm sorry.

This appears as an immediate consequence of her being bullied at #39C3, but it follows a life of serious tragedy and hardships. Autism, ADHD, schizophrenia, DID; a broken home, child abuse, bullying, exclusion. Tons of unhealed trauma, and myriads of complex and contradictory personalities stacked on top of each other.

She was all that and one of the most wonderful and interesting people I ever met. She was the most important person in my life for most of my existence.

I met Jenny on the German Minecraft forums when I was 13 and she was a couple of years older than me. She was my first and only best friend. She made me realise I was queer, she was the first person I ever loved. We started dating on the 1st of March of 2015, and we were together for almost eight years. We went through the teenage years, through both our transitions, our political socialisation, our earliest life stages and experiences. We eventually moved and lived together as what we used to describe as soul mates. We wanted to build a family.

I can not overstate the absolute integral role she has played in my life, my self-discovery and journey in my identity, my teenage years and early adulthood.

While eventually we drifted apart due to different social circles and an unfortunate third-roommate situation making us move to separate apartments, we split up amicably and kept in regular contact til the very end.

Jenny was one of the most wonderful and interesting people I knew. There was no other person in my life I have had this deep of a connection to as her.

There is absolutely nothing I could write here that could possibly do her justice in any way, or all the moments we've shared together.

She was a complex person of many contradictions. She was a lifelong rebel, and a fragile, deeply vulnerable soul at heart. She was an anarchist and a nonconformist, a furry and therian, a philosopher, an agender woman, a great girlfriend and someone who would have found it rad to be called a gender terrorist, a punk and a psychonaut, a queer bean, a kind soul, a hacker and cybercriminal in the best possible sense.

I would like to extend my sincerest condolences to everyone else who knew her and most importabtly, did not contribute to her passing away.

I would like to extend a hearty fuck-you to the people in the #Chaosbubble who stood by willingly as she was excluded and bullied; to her abusers; to the enablers. To the people who gave not a single damn about her feelings, who pressured her into a life of overstimulation and constant restlessness, who excluded her for superficial reasons, who abused therapy speech and called her "problematic" for being who she was.

May she be dearly missed, and rest in power.

To quote her last public words:
"There is beauty in darkness, I want my funeral to be a celebration, make it a rave. Maybe Luna has time to DJ."

A 27-year-old man found dead in an apartment in Tokyo’s Nerima Ward on Monday is believed to have been in a relationship with a woman who died in an apparent murder-suicide three days earlier. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/26/japan/crime-legal/tokyo-murder-suicide/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #tokyo #japanesepolice #nishitokyo #suicide

OpenAI and its investor, Microsoft, have been sued over a Connecticut murder-suicide in the latest case to blame the popular ChatGPT chatbot for dangerous psychological manipulation of users. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/12/tech/chatgpt-murder-suicide/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #openai #microsoft #chatgpt #ai #suicide #mentalhealth #children #us

Takashi Tachibana, leader of the NHK Party, has been indicted by the Kobe District Public Prosecutors Office for allegedly defaming a former Hyogo prefectural assembly member who apparently committed suicide. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/28/japan/crime-legal/tachibana-indictment-defamation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #takashitachibana #motohikosaito #hyogo #japanesepolice #suicide #nhkparty

I've touched on this before, but I really hate how much "mental health awareness" just boils down to neurotypicals excusing each other for their roles in the struggles of neurodivergent people.

Like, imagine if whenever you talked about experiencing transphobia, some helpful cis person would gently inform you that nobody owes you their emotional labor and gave you the number of the Trevor Project. Or if TDOV consisted of cis people talking about how evil a disease experiencing transphobia is and how it spontaneously ruins the lives of trans people, without even a mention of the people who actually inflict transphobia upon us. It'd be absurd.

But that is how we treat mentally ill people. Mental health awareness month doesn't platform mentally ill people. It instead platforms people who have been affected by people in their lives committing suicide or by mental illness in general so that they can talk about what a terrible disease mental illness is and about how *neurotypicals* can handle mentally ill people. The most we can hope for is seeing our feeds flooded with people posting, "there's hope! People care! (Just not me.) Call the suicide hotline!"

And I think one of the major reasons we aren't asked to speak for ourselves is that unspoken understanding that talking about mental illness is *dangerous*. That if mentally ill people are allowed to talk about their feelings honestly and openly, other people might do the same.

And more than that, I think we're just inconvenient. We, like homeless people, are inconvenient social outcasts who need to be swept aside and kept out of day to day life because nobody wants to be reminded that they live in a brutal, unforgiving capitalist shithole that grinds people down to their very bones. People want to be happy, and they want to see other people being happy, and they don't want to think about the world they live in - or worse, they themselves - making other people unhappy.

#mentalhealth #ableism #neurodivergent #suicide

"The #tour follows a chronological tale of #Jewish life in #York. We start at Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate to set the scene of Jewish life in #Medieval York.

Here, we introduce some key figures at the centre of anti-Jewish violence that started in #London, in late #1189, before making its way north. Putting ourselves in the shoes of the Jewish community, we replicate their journey to #CliffordsTower, the site of the #1190massacre. This is the most significant Jewish site in York, which saw the complete annihilation of York’s 150 #Jews, the majority of whom chose #suicide in order to protect their faith and dignity from the mob.

From here, we explore the lesser known revitalisation of the Jewish community in the #13thcentury. This story is shared at the medieval #synagogue on Coney Street. Next, at the Norman House, we cover the build-up to the national #expulsion (#1290) and official return of #Jewry in the #17thcentury."

https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/25638161.why-set-jewish-history-walking-tours-york/

"The #tour follows a chronological tale of #Jewish life in #York. We start at Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate to set the scene of Jewish life in #Medieval York.

Here, we introduce some key figures at the centre of anti-Jewish violence that started in #London, in late #1189, before making its way north. Putting ourselves in the shoes of the Jewish community, we replicate their journey to #CliffordsTower, the site of the #1190massacre. This is the most significant Jewish site in York, which saw the complete annihilation of York’s 150 #Jews, the majority of whom chose #suicide in order to protect their faith and dignity from the mob.

From here, we explore the lesser known revitalisation of the Jewish community in the #13thcentury. This story is shared at the medieval #synagogue on Coney Street. Next, at the Norman House, we cover the build-up to the national #expulsion (#1290) and official return of #Jewry in the #17thcentury."

https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/25638161.why-set-jewish-history-walking-tours-york/

I've touched on this before, but I really hate how much "mental health awareness" just boils down to neurotypicals excusing each other for their roles in the struggles of neurodivergent people.

Like, imagine if whenever you talked about experiencing transphobia, some helpful cis person would gently inform you that nobody owes you their emotional labor and gave you the number of the Trevor Project. Or if TDOV consisted of cis people talking about how evil a disease experiencing transphobia is and how it spontaneously ruins the lives of trans people, without even a mention of the people who actually inflict transphobia upon us. It'd be absurd.

But that is how we treat mentally ill people. Mental health awareness month doesn't platform mentally ill people. It instead platforms people who have been affected by people in their lives committing suicide or by mental illness in general so that they can talk about what a terrible disease mental illness is and about how *neurotypicals* can handle mentally ill people. The most we can hope for is seeing our feeds flooded with people posting, "there's hope! People care! (Just not me.) Call the suicide hotline!"

And I think one of the major reasons we aren't asked to speak for ourselves is that unspoken understanding that talking about mental illness is *dangerous*. That if mentally ill people are allowed to talk about their feelings honestly and openly, other people might do the same.

And more than that, I think we're just inconvenient. We, like homeless people, are inconvenient social outcasts who need to be swept aside and kept out of day to day life because nobody wants to be reminded that they live in a brutal, unforgiving capitalist shithole that grinds people down to their very bones. People want to be happy, and they want to see other people being happy, and they don't want to think about the world they live in - or worse, they themselves - making other people unhappy.

#mentalhealth #ableism #neurodivergent #suicide

Dallas Cowboys defensive end Marshawn Kneeland died Thursday morning from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/11/07/more-sports/cowboys-player-marshawn-kneeland-dies/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #moresports #dallascowboys #marshawnkneeland #suicide #nfl

OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/27/openai-says-over-a-million-people-talk-to-chatgpt-about-suicide-weekly/

#HackerNews #OpenAI #ChatGPT #Suicide #Support #MentalHealth #Awareness

The number of suicides among students in elementary to high school hit a record in 2024, with the figure for those in their 20s also remaining high, underscoring the need to beef up care, health ministry data showed. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/24/japan/society/students-suicide-record-high/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #suicide #students #children #mhlw #mentalhealth #surveys