TiBB's a nutter magnet though. You may as well be offering free rubber ducks and boat rides around the severn in a floating caravan to attract the clientele we get.

Blunt, but true

That's a very close minded and quite arrogant view, you can't really take a bite of anyones personality on here as you can only really interpret them as they post on, in real life you see so much more to a person...

I remember reading an article a few weeks back that found the statistic to be that 1 in 5 people in the UK had contemplated suicide at least once in their lives.

It's not the article I was referring to, but still interesting statistics to read:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle1829999.ece

It was a joke. You know. Based on the lollycaust view that anyone who willingly submits themselves to a BB forum is a bit of a loony tune.

Still a bit of truth in it though. And not nessacerily in a bad way. I reckon a good 60-70% of the regulars are not the full monty. One even runs a weather site.

i wouldnt be suprised if it was more tbh

:joker::joker::joker::joker::joker:

My dad is/has depression currently and has once said to me that he was going to commit suicide by overdose (Not explaing why) but though is still suffering from depression he feels better now he has a job and is working again.

I completely agree.. I have spoken on a one to one basis with quite a few people on here and I'm not calling them nutters, but almost every one has some sort of"issue"

It would be interesting to see just how many posters suffer from mental illness/depressed/bi-polar/self harmers/OCD/etc etc

You could start a poll? That actually does sound quite interesting and not in the 'Let's poke fun' kind of way, because that'd be disgusting.

But yeah It would be quite interesting to see how many posters share the same sort of disability/mental illness etc

I don't really imply anything too serious in most of the forums case but it's certainly full of borderline narcissists going through adolescence to whom TiBB has become their main base of operation for establishing their 'personality'.

See : Meet The Members/Vanity Fair.

Sounds like a terrible idea. I don't think that many people have been genuinly diagnosed with mental disorders. Certainly not enough worth making a poll about. Think about this.

One depressing thread a night is enough I reckon.

Hahah.. yeah. I'd get away with a poll asking people to tell me if they're mad or not! I'd be lynched for sure!!

Well i self harm :/ and i know someone from here is bi-polar, not gonna say any names though.

The fact that you broadcast it is odd. If I self harmed for genuine reasons and didn't want my own friends to see my scars I wouldn't be telling strangers on the internet. But maybe that's just me.

There have been times in my life when I haven't wanted to go on, but I would never have killed myself and put my family and friends through such awful pain and guilt. I know that if someone I loved committed suicide I would never, ever get over it and it would probably cast a shadow over the rest of my life. Why would I want to inflict that sort of torture on anyone else?

I guess for some people its different, i'm open about it online because i know i haven't actually got to meet any of the people that know online, if i thought for a second that you'd tell any of the people i actually know, i wouldn't say anything.

Yeah, I'm alot like that on here too when saying stuff.

I'll never forget when I had to take about a week or so off school the first time when I threatened to do it, and some how my classmates found out and the minute I walked in kept asking me and actually some how had twisted it into me actually trying to kill myself [which I didn't do at that stage] and they came up with their own reason for it too :rolleyes:

Ever since then I realised people like that aren't worth talking to for help or anything because some how, when one of them find out everyone else knows and you become a laughing stock.

Because at that time when you're the darkest place you have ever been when all you feel is despair, no self worth, no purpose, no way up, no escape you don't think about other people and their lives, you think about the pain you are going through and how not existing must surely be better than existing the way you are at that moment.
If you do think about your family and friends you're probably thinking they might cry for an hour then they'll get over, they'll get on with life. That's your state of mind at that darkest moment;you don't matter that much, there's no other way out. Matt Lucas ex boyfriend was an example of this " "Kevin McGee thinks death is much better than life." How about Alexander McQueen, all that money, successful business, loads of friends and all that mattered in those last moments was him, his demons in total darkness. I have come to this moment so many times :( what got me out of that like I mentioned before was the fact that my family but the fear of god in me that suicide equals=murder as our body is not our own and murder is a sin therefore eternal fire. I keep thinking about that scene in ghost when the dark ghosts come and take the friend and drag him away screaming lol, or one of Kanye west's video where a woman jumps off a cliff and as she's falling a large dark spirit comes out the water and expands their arms to catch her lol

I don't know what goes through the mind of people that self harm to be honest. Does the pain make you feel good for a bit? Do you feel you deserve pain?

Nope. Would not be afraid too though because of my paranormal beliefs :)

If you are gonna top yourself make sure you wipe all the porn off your hard drive first.

I could never consider it personally. It's a controversial view (and by no means a blanket statement) but I find the notion of it quite selfish, chances are you're leaving someone behind to deal with grief, confusion, guilt and any debt or problems that they'll inherit because of it. I couldn't do that to my loved ones. I agree with Euthanasia but with suicide there's always a chance things will get better, It's just a sad waste really.

No never, although I've never had cause to do so, I've been lucky so far in life I think. I'm not sure if I ever could because I would always cling on to the hope that things could improve but I guess I can't relate to the situations that people who do commit suicide have been in.

I;ve never tried to commit suicide really wanting to die. But i have done a lot of drugs and didn't really care if i died or not. So i guess that's kinda like attempted suicide.

But not really. If i really wanted to die, i'd just jump off of something i think.

There's a really good documentary i saw called "The Bridge" which is all about the suicides from the Golden Gate Bridge, which is the suicide capital of the world.

actually India is the suicide capital of the world.