See, I can sort of understand why someone might want to kill themselves but that's no way to do it. Surely they'd want to experience minimal pain?

this thread is well upsetting. i want to hug everyone here :hug:

Its true :') people automatically think they have the right to judge people because of it, and that ****ing annoying me. x

Sometimes people feel that they deserve the pain. :sad:

Yep. Every case is different so it's almost impossible to know what they're going through.

Preach!

well its not even like that they judge, its just like that they think they know anything about it, when really, if they havent been in that place themselves, they know nothing :L

This :(

I've thought about how life is pretty much pointless before, which, when you think about it...it is, but there is no way I would ever end my life. Ever. You're only here once, and yes there are some sh!t things, but not all things are. Thankfully I'd say my life at the moment is actually amazing.

Reading some of the replies to this thread is :( too. :hug:

EDIT: One of the main reasons I couldn't end my life is because of the people I'd be leaving behind, the thought of it kills me. Just like how it'd kill me the other way round too...

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Oh, fair enough :sad:

As I said, I've never felt like that so I don't understand what people are feeling at the time. Must be a lonely place though and hard to get through.

Oh, I think this too.

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Sometimes these 'cries for help' as some people call them make things a lot worse. Family sometimes don't want to know, you lose friends, stuff like that. Often makes people loads more icolated

See, I completely disagree with ignorant people that say people who attempt suicide and stuff are attention seeking.

But slitting your wrist, alot of the time is done by people to try and come across as cool.

I know teenagers that walk about showing eachother their 'scars' on their wrists, trying to be all emo and sh*t.

You're right, if you're going to kill yourself you'd do it without wanting a slow death, these people that slit their wrists are pathetic and don't do it because they want to die, they do it because they want to look hard and emo to all their friends, because as you said the chances of dieing from it are very slim.

Well said.

Very true.

Yeah, this is a reason why I haven't tried hanging myself since my dad caught me the last time.

Because now I have like a little cousin who I kind of want to see grow up and stuff and It'd really break my heart after spending alot of time with him, if I died and he grew up and didn't even know me.

Would just like to point out that is a generalisation there. Not all people that cut their wrists are seeking attention...

I can't imagine being in a situation where things are so bad that killing myself is the only solution, and i really hope that I never am.

In addition i can't stand people with the "suicide is selfish" opinions, suicide is a last resort for someone, things are obviously so bad for them that they really can't take it anymore, i can't see that it's a quick decision someone would come to, people must think about it for months. At the end of the day that person is in such a bad mental state that they just can't carry on, i honestly don't see how that is selfish myself.

That's also very true actually come to think of it, like when they feel guilty.

Or, they actually like the pain.
I myself kind of enjoy pain, but I wouldn't like to see blood pouring out of my wrists as Stace said earlier.

Yes many times - when I was a complete dope. Unless your brain is wired different to everyone elses and you have some sort of genuine serotogenic depletion that gives you a very real, logical chance of not being able to feel happiness I have no idea why suicide should be a viable solution.

Life can always be made better if given time. If you are at the bottom you can only go up. Most suicides are by nature irrational acts often done under the influence of drugs and alcohol. Then you have a lot of people who simply need to straighten up and cop on. Young people for instance. Suicide should never even cross their minds, IMO. They should be out enjoying life. Fact is a lot of teens do self harm because they work themselves into a self induced frenzy and it goes with their 'scene' or 'image'.

Indeed, i ever understood why people actually self harm to look cool, it is not cool! I have scars, but i don't plan on letting anyone actually see them, and tbh i wish i could get rid of them, they aren't a fashion item.

It's silly that there is a stereotype that only 'Emo' or 'deep, depressed teens' self harm though. People from all walks of life do it.

I'm sorry to hear that you have felt this way before Patrick, i do hope things are better for you now.

I know this is of no comparison, i'm not going to even try to say it is, but i've gone through periods of depression in my life, not to the point where i've thought about commiting suicide thankfully, but i have always found that time is the best healer, i tried buying things, doing things i wanted to do, but after the hype goes you're just back to stage one, but i found that over time things do get better, this of course isn't the case for everyone, hopefully it is for more than it isn't

To me "emo's" are very mis-understood, i used to be very against the whole idea of them and had a negative view, that was until about a year ago when my sister turned "emo". Although she may dress like one and dye her hair funny and hang around with some "weird looking" people, i find she is the same person, and her friends are very nice people to, their personalities are majorly different to how they were years ago as a resut. Emo's have got the seterotype of self harming, and unfortunately this is phase that my sister went through, however talking to her friends, some faint at the sight of blood, let alone cause harm to themselves.

Ive thought about it before for like, 5 mins then I realise Im over-reacting and remember all the good things that life offers. Id never do it, would be too scared.

I like Smithy's saying.

No, can't say I have. I'm grateful for life and although sometimes I do get annoyed with it, who doesn't? This thread is so sad to read, so many people have contemplated suicide and this forum makes up less than 1% of the UK's population. Can't imagine how many have in the UK as a whole :(