If you ever thought about suicide, what made you change your mind?

[Scustin Bieburr]

I can't help but think at least some of these drug overdoses are coming from people who feel like they can't go on any longer because their lives and the world just seems to get worse every day from their perspective.

I've never heard of a hopeful who has everything going well in their lives getting hooked on heroin or alcohol. I've worked with people who joke about their retirement plans being a running car in a closed garage or a pistol and enough Vodka to kill a Russian. I can see where they're coming from but for me it makes me wonder if people think about how their friends and family would react. What that would do to them to know that someone they cared about decided life wasn't worth living anymore.

I've been lucky to not have any friends who went through with it, but I did know a few people who really came close. shyt is tough to hear

 

[Why-Fi]

burger. i was hungry as shyt

 

[Big Mountain Hélà]

You’re confusing depression with addiction

 

[RaspberryFitted]

I’ve had the ideations (basically imagining what the aftermath would be) but never full blown thoughts

 

[Depreciating Asset]

Thought of my mom. How much she loved me and how hard and unfair it would be to her. Couldn't go through with it.

Now I have kids and ain't no way I could do that to them. I've seen the research for kids whose parents have committed suicide. They do NOT do well after that shyt. I brought them into this world and I can't do that to them. So gotta keep pushing regardless of how I feel.

 

[the elastic]

Religious upbringing and family

 

[Taadow]

It’s always on The Table…

 

[Worthless Loser]

My parents would be too hurt. I envision a funeral with my mom crying endlessly. Then afterwards she would be severely depressed for years. Crying at random times. My dad would be depressed for years too. It would drive him to drink heavily. He got depressed when my mom left him when I was a kid. This would be much much worse.

It would hurt me to have them feel that way.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

One of the reasons why I have never thought about suicide was my skill to always see the bigger picture for everything I do.

No offense but I think about my mom and dad who are old now who would be severely heart broken if I killer myself especially since they invested so much into raising me.

Anytime I go through something I just accept it as life and move on. This is why a lot of men need to take pride in knowing a lot of skills and also having lots of hobby. These tools keep your mind away from depressing things at times

 

[jaydawg08]

I was scared it would hurt and what my family would think.

My dad committed suicide by drinking antifreeze when I was 17, and I went through a major depression and just confused with life and for about a month kept a Gatorade bottle filled with antifreeze in my car

There's a very specific time where I told myself I was gonna do it.. brought it with me to the bathroom, sat in front of a mirror and stared at myself and cried more than I ever have before for about an hour and couldn't do it because i was so scared and didnt wanna have my family go through another suicide

 

[daiquiridream]

I attempted suicide when I was 12 after my dad got sentenced to 2 years in jail for something he didn't do. I was so upset seeing life go on while he was gone and I just wasn't ready to be grown and start taking care of myself without his help yet. So I swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills and woke up the next day in the hospital.

Now whenever I feel depressed as an adult or faced with hard choices, rejection, doubts, or ugly truths I think back about how I made it threw those 2 years (when I honestly didn't believe I could at that time) and how thankful I am that my life didn't end.

 

[blockburna420]

I had to go to work n shyt

 

[AStrangeName]

I crashed out mentally several years ago, but I guess my pridefulness didn't let me crash out physically and kept pushing me to get myself out of the rut I was in mentally.

 

[Lexington Steele]

If you stay in, there is a chance things will get good. If you try, there is a chance things will go well. If you keep at it, there is a chance you will be all right. There is even a chance that your life will become great. I don't know exactly what that chance is, but I know it exists.

If you quit, there is no chance.

Stay in. Keep trying. Keep at it. We're all here with you. Fight. Fight for your life, motherfukker.

 

[num123]

Pretty much a lack of belief in an afterlife. Why kill myself now when i am going to the same place later. Might as well try to stay here till i naturally go.