Have you ever considered suicide?

[OldAccount]

If so what changed your mind?

What advice do you have for anyone currently considering suicide?

NOTE: I'm not suicidal myself. Just been hearing a lot about suicide lately.

 

[Marter]

I have considered to going through with it.

I don't have any advice, unfortunately. You just need to weigh the pros and cons of going through with it. It's what I did.

 

[Sethzard]

I've tried it a couple of times. I guess I didn't want to do it enough because as you can all see, I'm still here.

That was a couple of years ago, those were dark times.

 

[RatRace123]

Not gonna lie, thought about it.
But what would that accomplish, it's a stupid solution to my stupid problems that don't matter in the long run.

Besides, I won't give my enemies the satisfaction of me being dead... shut up, I have enemies, why shouldn't I?

 

[Jim Grim]

When I was little and stupid I thought I was considering suicide, but I'm not really sure I was.

 

[no space]

I think the best advice I've ever heard about suicide, or just any kind of tough life situation, is to wait twenty-four hours. Apparently, that's how long it takes a person, on average, to come to grips with a life-altering event. I know, for me, this has more or less held true- that after a day or so, I've felt a lot better about horrible situations.

Aside from that, talking to someone about whatever it is I know helps a lot in these matters. If just one person cares, that's probably enough.

"Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem."

 

[Sacman]

Like every other day... seriously I usually end up crying myself to sleep...
Of course I didn't do it... I'm afraid of pain and dying that's why...<.<

 

[Cain_Zeros]

More times than I care to admit, or count. I'm not really sure what stopped me...

 

[moretimethansense]

The drop was too high, not kidding.

I've thought about it a few times and even attempted it once, but I have a pretty baad faer of heights, the one time I tried I stood on the edge, looked down then I collapsed with fear and started hugging the ground, the other times I've thought about it but usually only when I'm at my worst, give me a few and I'll still be depressed but usually not enough to kill myself.

 

[erbkaiser]

A few times. But I'm not selfish enough to go ahead (it would hurt my family immensely and that is not worth anything).
Haven't had the thought in over a decade fortunately.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

Many times

 

[Infinatex]

Hell no! I love life too much! I couldn't even imagine what it would be like to feel that way.

 

[Verp]

Not exactly suicide, but I did in all honesty dream of a kill spree until stopped by lethal force when I was in my early teens (about 12 years old).

I just wasn't a happy puppy. I got happier when I got enrolled in a different school and got real friends.

 

[TheXRatedDodo]

At one point, but even when I hit the lowest point of my life (which was pretty goddamn low) I still realised that the dualism requires there be equal opposites to everything, and that was enough for me.

 

[baddude1337]

After I split up from my Girlfriend I suffered from severe depression and contemplated it several times. I tried once, but I sucked at it. In the end my close friends cheered me up and now I am happy and perfectly okay.

 

[JamesBr]

Not seriously. Although I do get the urge to jump every time I stand on the balcony of a tall building. Not in a self-destructive I-want-to-kill-myself sort of way, I would just love to experience free falling. I gotta go parachuting one of these days, maybe it'll get rid of this fatality-inducing urge.

 

[Kyrean]

Yes. Thrice, but first two weren't serious. Third time was close and was sent to psychiatrist and they considered putting me in full time care.

Everyone's reasons are different from loss of loved ones to serious emotional and mental trauma from a young age, some even make half hearted attempts purely for "kicks". If someone you know is thinking about it a lot, talk to them and try to identify the points in their lives which are making them lean towards it, then get them to talk about them.

Whatever you do, do not check them straight into a program or send them straight to a doctor or whatnot. The first and best people they should talk to are those who are close to them. Just be there for them.

 

[Booze Zombie]

I held a kitchen knife to the back of my head when I was ten; I felt it wasn't worth stopping short when I had a life to live.

 

[TheAceTheOne]

No. I've thought "Suicide... man, dying would just make it worse. Forget it."