Thread: Serious Business Alert - Let's talk about suicide

WriteMood said Is professional help ever even necessary, or should one rely on their inner strength and circle of family friends? See, now I'm really weird when it comes to this. I'll admit, I attempted suicide in August. I was ready to go. For two years I had dealt with blow after blow, ranging from my mother's death who was my best friend to my husband's deployment and cheating, to having a miscarriage, to being diagnosed with cancer. The one person who I relied upon to be my friend and family my husband had betrayed me the most. I now am on medicine which makes me angry and go to weekly therapy which makes me angrier. I feel like I am paying for crimes I didn't commit. So let me counter your question with one that will I will add is my own issue When should one be allowed to make the decision to die? If we don't have a psychiatric disorder and it truly is situational, when do we have the right to sanely choose to die. Because I don't believe you have to be insane to throw in the towel and say I really don't look forward to waking up tomorrow. Note I'm no longer suicidal. I've come a long way in a short amount of time. Click to expand... You don't know how sad this made me, much support on over coming your obstacles! I hope you all the best and ever loving happiness! But with what you spoke of now, I wanted to respond to, and it sort of go along with assisted suicide. I'll say it right now, I don't think anyone should be allowed the decisions to end their life. I know it's sort of controlling, and pretty Big Brother, but I believe people should be prevented from killing themselves, because people who want to die almost always have a reason that could have been solved pleasantly. I don't want you to get personal, or even post unless your comfortable with it I also don't want to trigger it, but please tell me if I'm snapping twigs here. You've over come your suicidal thoughts, and that's nothing I've personally experienced because I never attempted, so think You don't have to tell or post it!, why are you no longer suicidal? On my experience, I never let my suicidal thoughts go pass self loathing because I understand that this life is mine, and if I keep living it, I can find something remotely good to come from it, I won't let anyone else do something shitty in my life to fuck it all up for me, and if I'm knocked down, I'm going to get right back up, busted lip and dirt caked on by tears or not. I'm saying this as a general perspective, many people who want to end their life are just being spontaneous, life is great, life may only be lived once, and who the hell knows where we're all ending up when we die so committing suicide may just be cutting one's noes in spite their face, let's say dead life is even worse than this one even more so as anything remotely good is now completely and utterly absent. Who knows? Maybe our pain and suffering will end once we die, but we'll never know until it happens. And I feel if someone is strong enough to take that risk in ending their life, then they are a hell lot more stronger to keep living! So, no, I don't think it is ever a time when someone can say Whelp... I'm checking out., even if they're old and frail on their death bed, just wait it out until the very end. I know this might sound optimistic and idealistic to most, but this is how I choose to live my life I know I never had it bad, but I'm good at placing myself in other people's shoes, and to imagine all the bad of one person happening to me, I would try to fight it. Of course this is me thinking without those bads being tangible, but I like to think of myself this way, I want to be a better person by this, and though my flute might change if I'm ever struck with something cold, right now I want to believe I can be strong and make it through it.