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RE: Some Guidelines for Approaching Posters who are Severely Depressed / Express Suicidal Ideation

felt like some professional wrote it or someone who had direct experience in suicidal case with himself/herself or with someone close, a friend, a partner, a family member... (Maybe I'm wrong.)

Right on both counts!

Seems to me that this initiative is focus on the USA governed territories or the English spoken territories...?

This is definitely intended to be an international initiative. We have no borders here - although it's primarily English-speaking people participating thus far. It would be amazing to spread the initiative to include all dialects and countries.

But in my daily & practical research for more than a decade, the system in Croatia

Free capitalism does have its downsides, but when implemented properly, it shouldn't result in as much destruction as you're describing, and provides a great deal of opportunity for personal growth. Our free (biased) media exercises its freedom of speech and freedom of reach to broadcast biased "information" which makes us look far worse than we are. Things are certainly difficult here, we're quite divided, and things are worse than they were a couple of decades ago, but the quality of life and average income and GDP per capita in the US is still far higher than nearly any other country on Earth. People who don't have experience living outside of the US don't know how difficult life can be elsewhere, and thus complain as if they're living in some 3rd world country - typically, they're just spoiled and don't make the most of the opportunities offered here. And we're the opposite of a police state - crime right now is more rampant than ever and there's a great deal of lenience on crimes, both minor and serious. It's unfortunate that our biased media misleads people like this.

change comes from within every individual & light can shine in the darkness!

Absolutely, we all have the opportunity to create and induce happiness and positivity!

I will stop by in the community to check what is going on & if I could contribute anyhow, I will try to do so. I also believe that I will learn something useful from the community too.

Feel free to do so! We're going to continue growing our initiative as much as we can. I hope our mental health ambassador positions will eventually become standing jobs with good pay. And in the meantime, I hope to learn plenty as well, as there is always room to learn more.

All the best to all of you great people all over the planet!

100%! We can always acknowledge our differences, as they will always exist, and talk them out peacefully.

Absolutely looking forward to seeing you around here. 😊

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This is one of the nicest answers that I ever got here on Hive. Thanks!