So a few days ago, I ended up on this really small subreddit about suicide. It wasn’t active but there was one post made by someone saying they were gonna kill themselves in November. I sent out the Reddit Cares message (as i usually do) but something inside of me told me to DM them. I did that, asking them “Are you okay?”, they said “I’m alive I guess.”. I told them it should stay that way and they responded in a sort of angry way, saying they don’t need a savior and detailed what it was that made them feel this way. I could relate to them in some things (although I’m not suicidal myself), but there were some things that I couldn’t, but despite, I still tried to reason with them, saying that no problem was eternal and that suicide in fact was. Eventually, they told me they were gonna go and sleep and told me “fr you shouldn’t worry about me” and after that I left them alone. Now, while I don’t think i necessarily made their situation worse or anything, since I seriously doubt some Reddit guy is gonna make them feel way worse, but I still feel guilty about it. I might have annoyed them or pissed them off at worst, but I feel really bad about that due to the fact that I’m not well equipped to do such things (as other Redditors and my therapist have told me) and promised myself I wouldn’t do it again.
TL;DR: I tried to make someone suicidal on Reddit feel better, annoyed them/pissed them off