Have you ever considered suicide?

[GaryH]

I wouldn't say that I've ever seriously considered it, but I did go through a serious bout of depression for a few years a little while back and, if it wasn't for my family//friends/girlfriend, I'm sure that I -would- have seriously considered it. If that makes sense.

The key piece of advice I'd give is to think about how it would effect other people rather than just yourself, if you have a single person in your life that loves you and you could honestly do that to them then I'm not really sure what to tell you. Suicide is the most selfish act you can possibly do.

Also, I find that not believing in an afterlife helps. No matter how terrible my life ever gets, it's still better than not existing at all. (Not trying to start a debate, and I appreciate how some of you might find that outlook even more depressing, but I find it really uplifting.)

 

[Yosato]

Considered it YEARS ago, but even back then I knew that suicide is ultimately selfish, plus there was just so many other things in my life that I could live for.

 

[magicmonkeybars]

The reason why I don't kill myself is because the means are so unreliable.
People survive all kinds of crazy shit like falling out of an airplane from 12 Km up. or a metal rod through the brain.

Also ending up being crippled or disabled by a failed attempt is a horrible fate.
There just isn't a fool proof way of dying, the odds of messing it up are way to big for me to try.

I do think it's seriously uncool that some people would call suicide a cowards way out or selfish.
I think it's because those people don't like to be confronted with death or a willingness to die or are just selfish themselves wanting to keep people around against their will.
Most people are afraid of death and it take real effort and courage to overcome that fear and take your own life.

It's funny how self sacrifice is concidered noble but suicide is cowardly, is it because suicide doesn't save anyone, should someone else benefit from suicide before it becomes heroic ?

 

[Carnage95]

I have considered suicide before, however I knew I did not have the balls to do it, afterwards I thought about what I was leaving behind if I actually did manage to do it. I told myself that it was idiotic to even consider it in the first place.

My advice is think before you act. Have a thought about the people who love you and keep moving forward, good things come to those who wait.

 

[badgersprite]

Mhmm. Bipolar depression = thoughts of suicide. I had an episode just a few weeks ago. But, with this disorder, it's all chemical. The difference between mentally ill, depressed, suicidal me and nice, normal, happy me is really just time. I do get scared that one day I will kill myself, and, believe me, that is the last thing I want. I love life, and I'm totally happy with the world, but, yeah, when it strikes I basically become a whole different person. I think knowing that it's the illness talking and telling me I'm worthless and should kill myself, even if only subconsciously knowing it, is what saves me in the bad episodes.

...Someone needs to balance out this depressing thread with a thread about kittens or something.

 

[Ickorus]

Whilst I have thought to myself "What's the point of even living?" I have never considered taking my own life as an option, it's just a waste and it is a terrible thing to do to your family and friends.

 

[Firefoxmccoy]

I have thought about but never gone through with it. I don't think about anymore unless well you know.

 

[EHKOS]

Yeah everyonce in a while. I hate pain though, and there really isn't a sure afterlife or anything. What really saves me is that my mom needs me, and that there are always brighter days.

 

[Bad Marmoset]

There are some people say that suicide is an easy way out. I disagree.

Saying goodbye to every possibility of happiness, no more love, sex, intimacy, no more enjoyment of food, drink, games, films, books, no hanging out with friends, no more anything, anyone or any feeling that you have ever enjoyed. Knowing that in a few hours you will be nothing. That is scary stuff. If you ever really think about suicide it becomes incredibly difficult.
About six years ago I reached the point where none of the above mattered to me, I had no one that relied on me, no real friends (or so I thought), I had lost almost everything that meant anything to me. I had a life-long reliance on alcohol just to function and had been suffering from clinical depression for five years. I not only thought about suicide, I planned it and went through with it. I am able to write this because a friend knew about my condition, became suspicious and sent paramedics and police to my flat. Also, I think I may have been sick from all the alcohol I took to wash the pills down, but I don't know for sure, I was in and out of consciousness.
After getting out of hospital I had an attempt at getting my life back together but all that happened was that I lost even more and a year later found myself homeless on the streets of London.
I now have a place to live and have stopped drinking but life is still very difficult. I suffer massive amounts of stress that actually give me physical pain in my head, neck and shoulders (and make my vision blurry), I have no motivation to do anything and sometimes find it incredibly difficult to even make it out of bed. My concentration is so bad that I would be a liability in any job and that is if I could actually stand being around people long enough to have a job ? certainly my old job as a systems analyst/programmer is now beyond me. I am constantly haunted by my past and feel constant guilt and overwhelming flashes of self-loathing. I get very little enjoyment from anything, even stuff that I used to love (a condition known as anhedonia).
My situation in life is no longer getting worse but I, however, am and so I have set myself a time limit, if things aren't significantly improved within that time frame I will most assuredly die.
When life's problems outweigh your ability to deal with them then it is time to consider going. I have, over the last eleven years or so, simply reached my limit.

Sorry, if that was a bit long-winded and not entirely on-topic but I also get annoyed when people say that not killing yourself is an ethical or moral thing. To me, this is naïve, if you haven't reached the point where ethics or morals are meaningless then are you truly low and desperate enough to want to die? There are some times when it becomes purely an act of self-protection, as weird as that sounds.

I have to go eat chocolate now. I find that helps.

 

[Kroxile]

I tried it once. Needless to say, I survived.

Now, I have a medical record that haunts me. I can't join the military because of it even though I'm perfectly fine now.

 

[Bender Rodriguez]

Never, it's a foolish and weak thing to do.

If your ever in doubt, ever feel you've lost the child in you.
Pick up and old videocassette of something you loved as a child and use it to cleanse out all the stuff you've seen on 4chan or in real life.
I haven't used the method myself but some of my friends say: If done right, you feel like you have the world ahead of you.
Which in reality you have until you die.

 

[Nanaki316]

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

Wow I'm probably gonna remember that for the rest of my life.

I'm 22, had hideous teenage years. I lost about 3 friends to suicide in the space of two years and several other friends. I was alone, my family hate me and I tried it a couple of times.
I guess I started to feel I wasn't succeeding because something was keeping me here.
I fell pregnant with my daughter at 16 and frankly she saved my life. I now have two children and still suffer with depression and mental illness, it does still cross my mind. I feel like a horrible mother and I'm undeserving but I haven't tried it for years and hope I will never feel so desperate that I have to again.

My advice to anyone would be to think about the people around you. You may not think your death will affect anyone but trust me it may even be the most unlikely of people that it will haunt for the rest of their lives.

EDIT: Just so you know, I openly admit I am a complete coward.

 

[anthony87]

I've sometimes pondered what the reactions of the people I know would be, but never the act itself.

 

[Poopster]

Thought about doing it once...but then my favorite cartoon show came up...it made me happy

 

[chunkeymonke]

i did once
but i just kinda slapped myself as hard as i could and told myself that i have a good life and to man the fuck up

 

[jaketheripper]

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.

every time i try i get caught and have to go to a mental hospital for a month. so i just said fuck it. Something in this world is gunna kill me eventually...

after all...

i am american. lol

edit: its not selfish. fags lol "what about all the people you left behind" they are welcome to join.(jk) but its more complex than that. and maybe they are selfish for wanting to "keep you" regardless of how you feel.

edit 2: for all these "quick fixes"(i.e. watching your favorite cartoon.) your not suicidal. its more complex than that too.

 

[RyanBishop]

Suicide: weak, foolish, cowardly.

Also, in the words of Gregory House: "Living in misery is marginally better then dying in it".