Anyone Attempted Suicide?

I don't judge people who opt out, but it's not for me. I figure death's coming one way or the other, sooner or later, so I'm just gonna enjoy myself while I'm here.

I've known some people who have attempted and committed suicide, though. The cases in which I know the method, it was slitting of wrists and the running-car-in-garage thing.

 

Yeah, especially among teens and twentysomethings. I tried to die twice (first fime I was 18, second time was on my 20th birthday). The first time I slashed my wrists, second time was an overdose of valium. I'm grateful I survived both attempts. Augusten Burroughs (in THIS IS HOW) says it best: "You don't want to kill yourself - you want to kill the life you are living. So change your life. Just walk out the door, and make a right or a left turn to a new life. Anything is better than suicide..." I totally agree...

P.S Call a talk/suicide hotline before you decide to totally give up. What do you have to lose? I wish there were more options when I was feeling so suicidal and alone. It's not as hopeless as it seems, trust me

 

I cut my wrists open two days after my sixteenth birthday. The 1 year anniversary of that happening is now 7 days away.

...I'm better now. I've never really been the same since, but suicidal thoughts have gone from daily to almost not at all - maybe a couple days every few months. Now, not caring about living, that happens a lot more often, but that's because I chose treating myself without drugs. It's just a lot more work and is gonna take longer. But I imagine the parts of me I want to heal will heal in time. I love the comments everyone is making but to a suicidal person they won't mean a damn and will probably make them feel worse. Honestly, have those of you who have tried forgotten what it is really like to be making such statements?

 

If I had a terminal disease with no hope of survival, I wouldn't wait around for the painful end. I know exactly how I would do it. It's not something I think about often.

 

That is very sad. I am sorry. That must have been hard for your family....

 

thanks moonglow im sure it was probably a lot harder on her mom and her son. don't know what made her do it, I hadn't seen her in a long time.

Im not sure what kind of feeling it takes for someone to contemplate suicide and actually go all the way through with it, except it
must feel horrible.

 

That's how I feel too.

What worries me is having a stroke and being left a vegetable. It would be better if one could sign a form to say that if this should happen euthanasia should be carried out.

 

i'd be more curious if anyone on here had succeeded at it.

 

I feel it would be remiss not to post this:


1 (800) 273-8255
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

Hours: 24 hours, 7 days a week
Languages: English, Spanish
Website: www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org

 

i believe that's called a living will. and in at least some states, you have a no code option, which means heroic life saving efforts will not be made to ressussitate you.
what worries me is greedy hospital administrators calling in death nurses if a patient doesn't have adiquite insurance coverage.
i have reason to believe i may have actually witnessed something of the later sort.

 

The health care system here is different. At present, there's a ban on assisted suicide, but I think that is going to change soon.

But with our national health service there's no profit motive.

 

Same here. The thought of it comes at times but never attempted.

 

I don't think many people would really want to know my answer to that.

 

And it really would be a shame to miss out on golden pot.


Of course I've considered it - nobody who says they've never had suicidal thoughts is being honest (or they're wildly mentally unhealthy). But there's a giant difference between rational (even if distraught) considerations or contemplations, and fascination, preparation, or attempts.

Obviously, it would also be wildly unhealthy to have recurring or common suicidal thoughts. But simply thinking them and moving on as a stronger and better rounded/coping person is not uncommon. Having had suicidal thoughts doesn't mean that you have ever been at any great risk of suicide.

 

[SIZE=medium]You couldn’t possibly be more wrong[/SIZE]

[SIZE=medium]Call me narcissistic but really the thought has never even crossed my mind [/SIZE]









Hotwater

 

Well maybe you're just missing the narcissism that makes me think that everyone must have considered it....

But just the same, I think that most people have.

 

The thought has crossed my mind, because I felt like thinking about why people could do it. But I never considered doing it myself in earnest. Ain't got no time fo that.

 

That's all I have time for right now.

 

I have attempted.Cut my wrists and arms up bad.Needed a general op to get seen up.But generally I am over the impulse now as I got older I worked out strategies for coping.I did however have a crazy 5 minutes a couple of weeks ago where I wanted to drink a bottle of vodka,drop a ton of benzos and paracetamols.Thing is you have to get the dose right because if you take to many you just throw up and wake up.I didn't get as far as researching it though,and then things improved for me,even though half of my life is pure misery,the other half is sweet.