There are lines. Please stop crossing them.

[seanan_mcguire]

When I posted about depression, I said that I was giving myself comment amnesty; I said that I might not (probably would not) read the comments.

Since then, people have contacted me via email (when they had it), via my old email (which I rarely check), via my contact form, via Facebook, and via my Tumblr, to give me their phone numbers, to tell me not to hurt myself (which I did not threaten to do), to provide crisis hotlines, to make suggestions about medication (which I did not solicit), and in one case, to threaten to report me to the police as a suicide risk if I did not update my blog immediately to show that I was still alive.

Please. Stop. "Comment amnesty" did not mean "work harder to make sure that your words, your well wishes, your specific need to engage with my depression will be heard." I try to keep open dialogs on this blog, and I usually appreciate communication, but right now, this contact is intrusive, and upsetting, and seems to prioritize the needs of the contacting person above mine. Please. Stop.

This is why I do not talk when I am sad.

Comments

[katyakoshka.livejournal.com]

Wow, harassment much? The threat to report you might warrant reporting itself--or at least keeping in a file with a watch out for any future contact from that narcissistic White Knight wannabe (those people are the worst, from what I can tell, hell-bent on "saving" people so they can glory in their own endless generosity of spirit, trampling anyone who isn't a grateful enough "rescue" victim).

No good deed goes unpunished. :(

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I get that almost all of these were probably well-meaning (the threat to report did not feel that way), but yeah. This is why people don't talk honestly about these situations.

[katyakoshka.livejournal.com]

I've often grumbled about people laying asphalt for their hell-road. OTOH, that threat to report goes beyond thoughtlessly intrusive and waltzes into downright creepy. Just reading that someone wrote that to you gave me an anxious stomach-clench.

Hope you have some peace soon.