Discussion How did you know of SS and what was your first impression?

[DoomsdayCTB]

some kind helpful soul posted about it on r/suicidewatch
I just happened to catch it at the right time
funny enough, I got banned today from that same forum. but I deserved it lol (broke a rule)
so now I'm happy to be here! now I can openly discuss methods

 

[idfwlnh]

see a mix of Methods and Suicide Discussions among Off Topics and Recovery.

I think Off Topic and Recovery should be left at just that, idk why ppl post suicide related posts in those channels. So I totally agree

 

[3spiral]

I found it through that exact same video. that guy had to put some effort to make it the easiest as possible to find it bro he didn't change the acronym, reproduzed the whole forum layout and the video was basically just a guide of how to navigate this website
I think at first I thought it was definitely ethically ambiguous at least in the popular consensus but not necessarily "wrong"? idk how to explain but I was definitely very curious and stalked this place silently for a long time before recently making an account

 

[infp]

i've been aware of the site since the reddit ban but i was also far too young to make an account at the time so i stuck to lurking

was made aware of it again by tantacrul, instantly knew it was sasu when i heard him refer to it as "SS/Sorrow Solution", it's like he didn't even try to hide what site it was he did such a bad job at censoring it

 

[dizzy.]

I had the same experience! I watched that video and went to search for the site, and boom--found it! Ironically, the video just brought me here, rather than scaring me away and making me think badly of the site...because I'm not a moron.

Also every time I see the thumbnail to that video, my face scrunches up in disgust...no one is going "Do it" like this is some scary Unfriended-esque movie.

i've been aware of the site since the reddit ban but i was also far too young to make an account at the time so i stuck to lurking

was made aware of it again by tantacrul, instantly knew it was sasu when i heard him refer to it as "SS/Sorrow Solution", it's like he didn't even try to hide what site it was he did such a bad job at censoring it

Sorrow Solution LOL. I forgot about that. Horrible censorship

 

[TransientEternal]

I think I heard about it years ago in a reddit post talking about the SaSu reddit being banned. I then discovered the SaSu that exists now. I was browsing subs about suicide and getting tired about people talking about the same platitudes and "it gets better" and other nonsense. Finding this place was very refreshing, people who thought the same things as me gather in the same place. It made me feel less lonely and talking with people who aren't ignorant/willfully ignorant is always pleasant.

 

[PanaxMan]

I was just wondering so I made this thread.

I came across SS on Youtube, a channel called "Tantacrul" posted a video named "Encouraging the Young to Die - The Most Toxic Site I've Ever Seen". The video changed the names involved, but after searching it for a while, I finally find it here. Actually years ago I tried to find sth similar but couldn't so I gave up, so I'm happy to finally break in here.

The video, of course, like any other videos abt SS, saying that we encourage people to do this do that but I just know that's not the case. Imo giving "encouragement" like good luck or so isn't encouraging people to you-know-what. It's not like talking over and "I can fix her/him" would work anyway, so I don't like how people talk about the community here. But the community itself, It's great! I literally spend 8 hours per day recently just being on this site reading stuff.

For me it was Wikipedia but that idiot bum tantacrul just exposed it to more people it's ironic

 

[involuntary]

For me I found this site when i was lonely in 2022 not sure how though

I just confessed to my school counselor that i was gonna slice my wrists when i get home and they almost sent me away

I had my PlayStation and somehow found this site and would scroll for hours
And then forgot my login creds

 

[pillow_monster]

Four days ago, I was curious about suicide by cutting the carotid artery (jigai), and searched `how to bleed to death "ashspace"` then posts from this website came out. As for my first impression, I'm not sure how to describe it. Sorry.

 

[stripey]

i found this site maybe 2ish-3ish years ago the same way!
i watched the same video, looked up something like "suicide forum", and ended up here!
i was already in tons of discord servers that revolved around suicide at the time, so it wasn't new territory
can't remember well, but my first impression was probably something like
"finally! a place where talking about suicide isn't breaking the terms of service!"