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Anyone ever try suicide?
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scar tissue
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ha ha ha you funny guySaadster said:
what i'm trying to say is, if i had the choice between a friendless, sexless life in the western world or being some poor guy in africa with his loving wife and friends, i'd choose the latter
Alligatorjandro
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Wow @ this thread.
Dr_Boris_Goltz
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When I was a teenager I was very seriously considering suicide. I would envision the future and see nothing but a void, and my thoughts were always bleak. It was a poison, and it took years of therapy and medication to repair.
After the treatment and some physical improvement I feel as though I formatted my existence. Things feel fresh and the world seems packed with opportunity.
As cliche as this advice might be, I suggest finding a psychiatrist and counselling. Things most assuredly do improve.
After the treatment and some physical improvement I feel as though I formatted my existence. Things feel fresh and the world seems packed with opportunity.
As cliche as this advice might be, I suggest finding a psychiatrist and counselling. Things most assuredly do improve.
KittenMaster
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I personally would rather be a virgin and have relationship problems than to have problems even surviving.
At least with being unloved I can still pursue goals I have.
EDIT: Oh dang my avatar.
Alligatorjandro
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You can do other things to get over being unloved,you can't really do much to get over hunger/disease if you have no food/medicine.
Lamel
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neojubei said:
neojubei said:
Your attitude is too negative, I know it's not your fault and you don't mean to be like that, but try harder to look at the positives (things you might not even know of). Try to improve yourself and see where it takes you (work out, start reading, go out and socialize).
scar tissue
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Having meaningful relationships changes EVERYTHING.KittenMaster said:
How often have you heard people say "Without my wife/husband/boyfriend/girlfriend/kids/family I wouldn't have made it?"
ALL THE DAMN TIME.
Knowing there is someone who has your back makes all the difference. Being desired as a man/woman doesn't hurt either.
scar tissue
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Not everyone who is poor is starving or dying of aids.Alligatorjandro said:
I'm just talking regular work-hard,eat-little poor here.
not dying-poor, obviously.
Graffgor said:
If it's cliche, it's because it's good and useful advice. If you are miserable all the time, seek help, even if you're afraid to seek help.
But it doesn't help everyone. For example, the meds that have made such a profound change in my life are only effective for about 50% of those who are diagnosed as bipolar. The other medical treatments for biploar disorder have some profound side-effects, and frankly just don't work as well. It's part of the reason why so many people with bipolar disorder stop taking their meds.
My brother has been seeing psychiatrists and taking meds for years, with minimal relief. Some people get lucky -- I'm one of them -- and some people don't. Hopefully, as we better understand the chemical and physical differences responsible for these disorders, and as more medicines target them better, treatment outcomes will improve. But right now, there are plenty of people for whom psychiatry and medication simply aren't going to work.
And, of course, there are many people who simply can't afford the meds and help they need. But, if you can afford it, and you haven't tried it yet, it's your best bet.
Guess that puts me on suicide watch. I don't have anyone like that in my life.scar tissue said:
I've always wonder if a gun shot in the head the fastest easiest way to go
My life has been negative growing up and life doesn't seem to change that. Tried to be positive in high school but I got kicked around by straight people and spit on by gay people.
KittenMaster
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Well... In my imagination the words I imagine those words coming from come from people that have graduated from High School, won the Grammy Awards, or have done some other thing to feel honored by people in front of a large audience.
I'm just saying, I'd rather be able to survive and be unloved because at least then I have the ability to solve this whole "hey, I'm unloved let's do something about that" problem and then I'll eventually have the best of both worlds.
NintendoGal
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Yes, about 10 years ago or so. I took 13 or so codeine pills. Woke up the next morning feeling fine. I consider it a miracle and believe there was some purpose to sparing my life. Not sure what the purpose was, but I'm glad I'm still here. Life picked up after being a silly teen with a broken heart. Would not recommend.
theignoramus
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join the french foreign legion, it's tailor made for people who regard themselves as failures/social misfits, etc. I often thought about trying to join myself, but i dont have 20/20 vision.Icanplaythat said:
theignoramus
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they most certainly do. i had suicidal thoughts at the beginning of the year and was setting up to drink strong whiskey, then hang myself on a door-knob, but with my cat crying and clawing at the door behind me, i re-evaluated my plans.Crunched said:
Icanplaythat
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NintendoGal said:
When I was 14, the night before the first day of high school, I drank a bottle of generic Tylenol tablets. Over the course of that night and the next day I threw up 14 times and my grandmother took me to the hospital. The doctors were stumped and diagnosed it as a virus, I never told anyone what I had done. Several years later I learned how dangerous acetaminophen can be.
Devolution
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scar tissue said:
Going to go ahead and admit that knowing I have friends and family that would miss me has put so many stupid thoughts about killing myself at bay. If I didn't have them, I'd probably be pretty damn lonely and depressed.
NintendoGal
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Thus why I consider it a miracle that I didn't suffer any ill effects and I'm still alive.
Fury Sense
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To perceive suicide as cowardice, there must be an associated fear with the looming alternative of "pressing on," or maybe "stepping up," and/or "being a man."Raiden said:
Is there something you want to tell us about the way you suffer to live your life? I notice your avatar is that of a character from the television show Mad Men. Avatars are often chosen based on what the user wants to be or what they admire, respect, or enjoy. If I wanted to make this about you, I would ask in attempt to elicit an overly defensive stance to know what you're compensating for, and thereby give you an opportunity to make yourself look like even more of an ass.
However, I feel like the appropriate response, disregarding my fun little rant, would be to tell you that every suicide is a decision made by a person whose mind you will never truly understand.
davepoobond
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no.
though, i dont think there's anyone who hasn't thought they could easily die at any moment if they did something they weren't supposed to do. its the mental wall in your mind that stops you from actually doing the action that may cause you or someone else harm. when its not there, then thats when you actually do it.
at least that's the way i look at it.
basically what i'm saying is: realize you have a problem and try to fix it. there's no reason to "end it." what else are you going to do, anyway?
though, i dont think there's anyone who hasn't thought they could easily die at any moment if they did something they weren't supposed to do. its the mental wall in your mind that stops you from actually doing the action that may cause you or someone else harm. when its not there, then thats when you actually do it.
at least that's the way i look at it.
basically what i'm saying is: realize you have a problem and try to fix it. there's no reason to "end it." what else are you going to do, anyway?
hydragonwarrior
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...why on earth is this topic not locked yet? It's almost as if it's encouraging people to try suicide..
Femmeworth
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hydragonwarrior said:
Yeah, as somebody who had the same thing almost happen to me(fractured a vertebra, spinal cord damage) and is now walking, in the best shape of my life, and doing better than i ever have i gotta say please value your fucking life. Inadvertently coming to the brink of death like that is the worst shit ever.mblitek said:
Clearly, when dealing with depressed, suicidal individuals, the best approach is to push on the sense of guilt.
You have to expose their selfishness, their cowardice and remind them how petty, ridiculous and pathetic they and their 1st world problems are.
This will help them get out of that miserable mental state and put them back on their feet.
A kick in the ass can also do wonders.
You have to expose their selfishness, their cowardice and remind them how petty, ridiculous and pathetic they and their 1st world problems are.
This will help them get out of that miserable mental state and put them back on their feet.
A kick in the ass can also do wonders.
Joel Was Right
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This may sound cliche, but I get the impression people in third world countries, despite their greater struggles, feel better about themselves than we do here.
A Huge Battleship
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Suicide? Hell no, I'd rather die.
scar tissue said:
What the helllll? You can buy sex if it's so important for you and if you're worried about catching something at least it's likely to not be aids. The fact that myself and others are replying to your posts is proof enough that people exist that care about you in some way. That's better than having no one to talk to apart from your torturer.
I'm rarely even sad so considering killing myself isn't something I've ever thought about. People seem to focus on the things they don't have instead of the things they already have.
POWERSPHERE
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scar tissue said:
Really? I am also a virigin, few freinds etc
Yet I love my life, I have (a little, but still) money, clothes and vidya! I am not in some constant fear of "Will I have food in my stomach today?" like a majority of the earths population. You put way too much empahptis on freinds and relationsships they are very important yes, but I would choose to live here in the western world.
Heck I am sitting infront of a computer tyrping and seding my message over the internet for others to see. Today I´ll play a video game made out of polygons displaying wonders on a screen and then I´ll walk the dog, eat with my family (and not having to walk 5 miles for fresh water, there is a tap in our house!) and watch a movie pressed on a disc, shipped here, read by a friggin lazer pumping 20mb/s of information on a screen made of glass, gas and magic. I can read AND write too! BOTH OF THEM!!!! That image up there in the thread is great imo.
I dont think I would ever take my own life, only if I had 0 money and 0 people to talk too, but theree is always someone to talk to. INTERNET YO!
Dr_Boris_Goltz
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neojubei said:
Well the only other advice I can give is the thought process that initially improved my outlook:
The average human lifespan is about 75 years, which is basically nothing. Considering time flies by so quickly you might as well see how things turn out. Even if things are terrible for the rest of your existence (which won't be the case), you don't have to endure it for very long.
Earl Cazone
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i personally have never ever considered suicide.
i had low points in my life, i had high points in my life. but i always was too interested in seeing what will come. i am sad, that i wont be there when holo-decks become a reality (probably) but maybe I can see the cure of aids/cancer, holo-television or something like that. and i think that life is worth nothing. every grain of sand is as worthy as a whole universe, because "worth" is only a concept of humanity. but I like to make the best out of it and enjoy the ride.
if you want to kill yourself, rather take a risk and quit the life you have, you can always somehow go to another country with a foreign language and learn it, work in a bar in spain for little money and start over. you say: wow that would be a huge step. but you would experience stuff you would not if you were dead.
i had low points in my life, i had high points in my life. but i always was too interested in seeing what will come. i am sad, that i wont be there when holo-decks become a reality (probably) but maybe I can see the cure of aids/cancer, holo-television or something like that. and i think that life is worth nothing. every grain of sand is as worthy as a whole universe, because "worth" is only a concept of humanity. but I like to make the best out of it and enjoy the ride.
if you want to kill yourself, rather take a risk and quit the life you have, you can always somehow go to another country with a foreign language and learn it, work in a bar in spain for little money and start over. you say: wow that would be a huge step. but you would experience stuff you would not if you were dead.
I once got into a temporary depression that gave me suicidal thoughts. But thinking back, I think those thoughts were empty threats to myself. It's kinda hard to explain, but somehow it just passed. I hate that I even got those thoughts in the beginning. We are all blessed with life, and we shouldn't just throw away that blessing when so many people never even got it during their birth. I also couldn't stand the thought of letting all my friends and my family fall into grief because of my actions. I'm not saying suicide is selfish, because in the mind of the depressed he/she might feel like they are actually helping the world by ending their existence. But during my own depression, I overcame that feeling, and have never ever had suicidal thoughts again.
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