Amy Bleuel, known in the mental health community as the person behind the popular semicolon tattoo, passed away on Thursday, March 23 at the age of 31, Project Semicolon confirmed to The Mighty on Wednesday.
Update March 30 8:45 a.m. PST: The Mighty has confirmed Amy died by suicide.
>10. Instead of "running" a program, which implies thin privilege and pressure to "work out", programs are "given birth". After birth, a program rolls for a 40% chance of executing literally as the code is written, 40% of being "psychoanalytically incompatible", and 40% of executing by a metaphorical epistemology the order of the functions found in main().
>Defining your identity around your depression rip
Jonathan Carter
Or you know, immediately announce they're depressed and suicidal upon meeting them, just like vegans do.
>"Hey nice to meet you!" "I've been clinically diagnosed with depression"
Juan Clark
Help. The irony is choking my sides
Brody Davis
RIP mental illness is a bitch I suffer it too
Levi Campbell
>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Bleuel Very sad. May she rest in peace. I was a foster kid and dealt with some gruesome people... but I got good, got stronger, got help, got enlisted, got educated, got involved... and then got revenge. Many of my foster brothers and sisters never get to the strong part. Very few don't 'get good', but very few think that isn't enough. They're just... broken. Broken people scratching and clawing their way to the next bit of safe ground, always letting every extended hand feel like a savior. Broken records playing the same bad song over and over... broken hearts and broken minds, finally waking up and seeing nothing but their own errors and not the failures of the people around them that helped them make those mistakes and took their advantage.
For any of you folks here with similar issues, it's a multi-step process to recovering from abuse, no matter what kind:
>Get good. Be a good person every time you have that choice, and understand you aren't your abuser or your misfortune. >Get strong. Lift/exercise, learn to fight, read, improve your body and mind, recapture your lost development and exceed your peers where you can. >Get help. There are entire groups of people who actually spend their lives making shit money to assist people. They usually have business cards, BTW. >Get civic. I did my bit in the military for a combined 20 years (5 off to get 4 UDs and my MPA), but you have a million options to serve and grow. >Get educated. It doesn't take a degree, but a degree can be something you want. Learn about the interests you have had and chose a way forward. >Get involved. I was a CASA. Not a social worker, not a lawyer. They all knew I was a dangerous person whose kids were not to be fucked with. Try it. >Get revenge. You will never have closure if you know someone hurt you and is out there free and smug. Hunt, stalk, trap and avenge.
Starting support groups based on nonverbal signals will not fix you in an uncaring world.
William Kelly
that's terrible rip
Nicholas Howard
More genetic garbage gone from the gene pool good riddance
Caleb Sanchez
>Get fucked up >Resort to addiction >Dopamine isn't enough to sustain so she turns to make everyone else as miserable as her >The moment people stop caring and the dopamine dries up she kills herself like she should have a long time ago
Addicts are the worst
Jonathan Butler
Depression and mental illness is draining and rough on the sufferer, as well as everyone around them. it's a shame that she killed herself, but I'm honestly not surprised.
Dominic Taylor
The angry and vengeful form of depression seems more survivable than the weepy victim kind, really. But yes, both can affect everyone around the depressed.
Ryan Turner
What the fuck does that even mean?
I don't run the company I give birth to it. Running is thin privilege but giving birth totally isn't female privilege.
There's always some kind of innate hypocrisy with these people.
David Williams
Damn I better get a tattoo of a semicolon now.
Brody Morris
Kek
Dylan Ortiz
isn't trying to get revenge bad though?
Brody Morris
Wake up and wreak havoc. Shit must be wrecked.
Anthony Evans
It is if you listen to the Adventure of Jesus the Cuck.
Holy shit...how the fuck does it take you 6 tries to finally kill yourself?
Alexander Butler
>women aren't good at anything
Joseph Robinson
I've talked to multiple psychologists who've all told me getting revenge furthers the cycle of abuse and/or makes things worse.
I'm not trying to argue, I'm just curious, how does one go about getting revenge? is it purely getting someone in legal trouble? I've got my own mental problems that I'm not gonna attention whore about, but when I think of getting revenge, I have the urge to do something that'll usually get me in more legal trouble than the original abuser, like physically hurting them to make them feel how they made me feel.
Also, does getting revenge actually bring closure? I've been told it would just leave me empty and just the same as before getting any revenge.
Wyatt Mitchell
BIG IS BEAUTIFUL
BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
BEAUTY ISN'T SKIN DEEP
OH GOD I'M HIDEOUS *swallows pills*
Angel Brown
Pottery
Logan Nguyen
To forgive is to set a prisoner free, and realize that prisoner was you.
I'm undecided if this is enlightened or idealist bullshit. Seems like both.
John Taylor
Women usually don't actually try to kill themselves. They're just acting out from lack of attention.
Evan Morales
burger post best post
Juan Evans
>and your life is the sentence More like prison sentence amirite.
Carson Nguyen
Hey fuck you, buddy. Modern Christianity is a disgusting bastardization of what Jesus taught and exemplified.
He flogged jewish bankers in a synagogue for corrupting god's image FOR CHRIST'S SAKE
STOP DRINKING KOOL-AID
EYE FOR EYE TOOTH FOR TOOTH
IT'S IN THE FUCKING BIBLE
DEUS VULT DESTROY THE SARACENS TAKE JERUSALEM ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Ethan Garcia
Vegan detected
Jaxon Evans
In both cases that I found vengeance, I was able to prevent further abuse by acting on information that told me my past was about to become someone's future. Certainly, before revenge, you do EVERYTHING else first I mentioned above. Know where you stand, have the resources and ability to follow through, do so, and do not wait for the machinery that failed you to fail the people you could help. Vengeance IS empty if only what you know about your own anger is what is on the plate when you sit down to the feast.
I will say that one incident in which I could have gotten vengeance involved a street incident in which the target ran away. That target is still one of the two I managed to get locked up, but came as a result of me stopping him from beating a foster child in his care and trying to find something to finish him with. The police took the child's report, let me go and later I came back as a witness to testify to my own severe beatings in his home.
I still know that foster kid, he is in college now, doing better than average and playing baseball, which is pretty good and normal in my opinion.