Suicide stories

[thehollowmen]

Mental illness can be a chronic, and sometimes terminal disease.

There is a big difference here between people with a terminal disease or some chronic ailment for which there is no relief from pain who choose to end it all, versus some morose/self-absorbed teenager with their whole life in front of them who is just going through a "phase".

[Hitcher]

Mental illness can be a chronic, and sometimes terminal disease.

I didn't say anything to the contrary.

[alanzs]

Had a good friend who hung himself. He had been involved in a drunk driving accident, as the driver, in which four people were killed. After a few years of overwhelming guilt, he couldn't take it anymore and ended his life.

[Pedrostt500]

How do I say this, The wort suicides are the ones that leave no note or reason for their death, that absolutly destroys families and friends it leaves you with the feeling " was it me who pushed them over the edge".
no sucide is pleasant, I have lost a few friends over the years, some of them I would never have geussed at the time that they would remotly take their own lives, but they did.
I have been to the edge and have had to fight realy hard the dark deppresion that I was going through at the time not to end it all, this has happened a few times in my life, during these times I have been unable to seek help from friends and family, I belived that they would not fully understand where I was at and what I was going through.
One thing I have learned is there are always options, some of them are silly options but there are always options and there is always more than one option.
If you are suicidal your local hospital is an option, they will not turn you away, they will put you in touch with those who can professionaly help you.
If you have had a lucky life and have never known deppresion, or mental illness, then dont patronise or make fun of those who do have to put up with deppresion and or mental illness, we dont need your wise cracks and stupid remarks, keep them to your self, if you dont understand or it scares you then shut the fuck up and be thought an idiot rather than opening your mouth and removing all reasonable doubt.
If a friend or family member comes to you for help because they are suicidal, dont tell them that you know how they fell, you dont you arnt them, dont tell them to harden up, or to get tough, or get on the booze. They are going through one of the hardest battels that they probably will ever fight, if you dont know what to do then help them seek profesional help, dont sweep it under the carpet.

[thehollowmen]

Sorry, I thought you were saying that about the "morose/self-absorbed teenager[s]"
I know I'd have been in that category over ten years ago, and I'm in and out of the loonie bin all the time now.

I didn't say anything to the contrary.