Depression and Sucidal Thoughts

[Mr. Negative]

Is it a problem or are people just weak?

Was depressed, shared my feelings then was told to kill myself. Should i have done it?

hey, man

everybody has those thoughts when it's crunch time.

Everybody just front like "nah I'm a WINNER I don't have them problems!"

Those be the same ones that be sitting there listening to like.... Billy Ocean or some shyt and looking when they girl don't text them back cause she taking a shyt.

 

[Retired Account]

No.
What type of people do you hang with ?

I think most people think like that?

 

[Mr. Negative]

The one thing I think should happen is a better way to deal with depression and not just give people pills that they will need to take for the rest of their life.

"cause if you miss a dose you'll get depressed and want to kill yourself."

may as well be selling you heroin.

 

[The Mad Titan]

In this society, it's common. Especially, for black folk though it mostly goes undiagnosed.

If you are depressed. Get help. Do your research. We don't have many affordable mental health services in black communities but their are clergymen who council and support groups you can find. Check out community centers. If you can afford therapy, i recommended it.

My philosophy is that it's a cold dog eat dog world. No one can make that decision for you. You have to want to live. Most people have suicidal thoughts but most people's desire to live is stronger than their desire for death.

If you really wanted to die you would find a way. But you are procrastinating and buying time because you are looking for a reason not to. You want to live. So live.

Depression is being stuck in victimhood, feeling helpless to what others do/did to you, how they think about you, about regrets from your past.

None of that stuff matters. Because being alive means having the ability to make changes. You are worth something, you have to take back your power.

Now everyone has a different homeostasis because of biochemistry. So one person's norm may be more "depressed" or lower energy than others. But the goal is to be the best you can be and love your best life.

Perfectly stated

 

[Danktoker94]

Momma come rescue me I'm suicidial thinking thoughts I'm innocent bullets fly than I'm chalk - PAC

 

[CinnaSlim]

I have to disagree with this. First, there's the innate survival instinct, common to all animals. Then, finding a surefire method is not exactly straightforward. Speaking from experience, the method part involves a quite a bit of risk-assessment.

I myself have gone through much planning on my own suicide so I understand what you are saying. Understand that I am saying, if you really wanted to die, you would be motivated to find a way. Whether it is killing yourself slowly, through drugs and alcohol, violently from a gunshot wound to the head, or simply jumping off a bridge with a concrete block attached to you so your body stays underwater making it more difficult to be found or suicide by cop.

But if living is so hard for you, why havent you killed yourself yet? Must not be that bad. You must have some reason to live. So live. It's not hopeless and as long as you have life you have the ability to make a difference and a change. By killing yourself, you are just dead meat. Unless you become some matyr or die a hero saving someone else. At the end of the day, make a decision and do something. Either shyt or get off the pot. Everyone has to get to that point and for a lot of people they have to hit rock bottom first and realize that they want something more.

 

[Milk N Cookies]

You have a reason to live. You have a lot of people who love you. Don't let the negative thoughts impact your correct thinking pattern. Suicide isn't going to solve anything. I've gotten really low, but when I think about what life would be without me or he thought of someone finding me; having my family identify my body... I don't want to put anyone through such pain.

I don't care if it is your pet or 4 people you can count on your hand. Someone loves you more than you can imagine. Take your mind off of it & put that W feet into a drawing or write or something. Or if you need, call the suicide hotline

 

[Taadow]

Suicide is about ending suffering and preventing further suffering. Suffering is a constant for any living being. ...

Being depressed is a form of sanity, it isn't a weakness whatsoever.

I dapped this whole post, but these two particular points I thought were worth isolating.

 

[Londilon]

"cause if you miss a dose you'll get depressed and want to kill yourself."

may as well be selling you heroin.

I heard that if you start taking them and cut cold turkey is not a good experience. So how can poor black people who can't afford medication be able to take care of their depression with pills? There needs to be a better way to deal with depression.

 

[Athenna]

I think most people think like that?

That doesnt mean that it's a good way of thinking.

 

[b_low_brown]

I have to disagree with this. First, there's the innate survival instinct, common to all animals. Then, finding a surefire method is not exactly straightforward. Speaking from experience, the method part involves a quite a bit of risk-assessment.

Jumping from more than 10 stories is guaranteed death

 

[miranda]

I myself have gone through much planning on my own suicide so I understand what you are saying. Understand that I am saying, if you really wanted to die, you would be motivated to find a way. Whether it is killing yourself slowly, through drugs and alcohol, violently from a gunshot wound to the head, or simply jumping off a bridge with a concrete block attached to you so your body stays underwater making it more difficult to be found or suicide by cop.

But if living is so hard for you, why havent you killed yourself yet? Must not be that bad. You must have some reason to live. So live. It's not hopeless and as long as you have life you have the ability to make a difference and a change. By killing yourself, you are just dead meat. Unless you become some matyr or die a hero saving someone else. At the end of the day, make a decision and do something. Either shyt or get off the pot. Everyone has to get to that point and for a lot of people they have to hit rock bottom first and realize that they want something more.

Stop it right now. Seriously stop. You're not a medical professional.
Dont tell someone to commit suicide as some type of challenge

 

[AlainLocke]

I myself have gone through much planning on my own suicide so I understand what you are saying. Understand that I am saying, if you really wanted to die, you would be motivated to find a way. Whether it is killing yourself slowly, through drugs and alcohol, violently from a gunshot wound to the head, or simply jumping off a bridge with a concrete block attached to you so your body stays underwater making it more difficult to be found or suicide by cop.

But if living is so hard for you, why havent you killed yourself yet? Must not be that bad. You must have some reason to live. So live. It's not hopeless and as long as you have life you have the ability to make a difference and a change. By killing yourself, you are just dead meat. Unless you become some matyr or die a hero saving someone else. At the end of the day, make a decision and do something. Either shyt or get off the pot. Everyone has to get to that point and for a lot of people they have to hit rock bottom first and realize that they want something more.

A lot of suicidal people don't want to commit suicide, they just wanna die.

If there was physician assisted suicide for the mentally ill and terminally in the USA...a lot of people would off themselves and not worry about being a vegetable.

And having a reason to live isn't a good enough reason for living.

A lot of reasons people continue living is due to lack of method, due to not wanting to die in a family member's house or straight up survival instinct...


Suicide is about ending suffering, it's not about living a particular lifestyle...some people just don't wanna be here period and never would even choose to be here in the first place.

 

[JayYoung713]

As someone who is dealing with major depression/anxiety issues I can agree with some of these posts. In our (black folk) community there are a ton of people dealing with mental disorders that go undiagnosed either because these families don't have the money to pay for help, or it just gets shrugged off as either "oh he just bad" or " he just needs prayer". It wasn't until I began to get help that I realized how severe this problem really is in our community. I checked in to a mental health facility late last year and remember it only being about 3 black patients total in the wing I was in and not that many more throughout the facility. I did intensive group therapy sessions everyday for 3 months and there were times where I was the only black person in the group.

Knowing what I know now I grew up around a lot of people with bi-polar, depression, sociopaths, etc. and none of them have ever been diagnosed. A good number of them are in prison now and a good number have been in the prison system at some point in their life.

My family was kind of unsure about me getting professional help they thought I just needed to pray and rest even though by the time I had reached my breaking point and was either gonna take myself out or somebody else I had all but lost my faith. Getting help actually helped restore my faith and it definitely put me in a positive mental space as well as physically. Now I'm back to getting this money, providing for my family, moving on plans to secure my future, back in the gym with a vengeance working out getting my fine nikka Friday on everyday, all while still going to one on one sessions with my therapist every couple of weeks. Some positive reinforcement as well as having a non-biased person to vent to works wonders,

 

[semtex]

My depression is a mild case thankfully tricky thing is figuring out if your depression is organic or if there's some underlying cause for it (i.e. Thyroid dysfunction, sleep disorder, nutrient deficiency). Look there first and weed that stuff out before you let some doc dope you up