Only people who have attempted suicide answer this!!?

Question

I answered a suicide question earlier, but I am curious about what is behind suicide for some reason.

What brings someone to the crossroads of questioning life?

I would like to know how you feel about this.

Im not putting "labels" on suicidees, but I think their is something seriously wrong with a person who attempts to end their own life. Do you all not have strong christian beliefs? Is life that hard that you contemplate killing yourself? I mean I understand depression, but from what and does that warrant killing?

I have noticed very well, very well off individuals who seem to have a lot going for them, go and jump off a ledge. Why? Homeless people, people in famine, etc, ( I have noticed) dont do all of these things.

I read a few posts stating some suicide victims were a happy kind. So what is the problem?

Is there no faith?

There should be some type of explanation?

Basically my question is:

What warrants killing yourself?

Are people (who have ill mental health) rational enough to claim suicide as the answer?

Carmie, I think eveyrone has been depressed at some point in time. This has nothing to do with research, I am asking from a suicide victims prespective. If you have not written any books on suicide, please just STFU, because you sound worse than YOUR claim of MY ignorance.

Lakersnba2004-"Just like someone else stated GOD has nothing to do with it. and for the record not everyone is CHRISTIAN"..

So, this HAS something to do with faith and believing...I mean, if not everyone is CHRISTIAN, i believe this is FACTORED IN to the equation...

it gets more and more interesting...

Answer 1

basically its lack of knowledge ,not knowing what is the best alternatiuve in a depressing situation and not knowing oneself enough
bad feelings emotional lows are caused by infinate small amounts of electricity zipping between molecules in the brain ,its is rediculous that this should cause a whole body cease to exist ,for the same money these mesages can produce hapiness.

besides ,death is a permenant cop out ,the best you can hope for is to be compost in Gods garden (if you have faith) the worst to be dust locked away in a box.

at least with life there is hope for improvement ,when you find a playmate and have fun again ,you can understand what all the fuss was about

so instead of suicide its best to buy a little time and wait for the pendulem to swing positive again.
all these emotional disastres are subject to time

Answer 2

First off, for the record, I will no longer make that choice in my life.
But back in the day I wanted to try it a few times, but I chickened out. Anyway, the reason that I wanted to is because I felt ugly, I had no friends, and I wasn't doing good in school. I h also had long term epilepsy (still do) I couldn't drive. Things just weren't going my way. the only thing I had was my family. And that just didn't seem like enough compared to what everyone else in HS had.
Every time I was contemplating it though, someone in my HS accomplished it. Made a major impact on me. I forgot about for a while. Then all of a sudden I would start reminding myself of how pitiful my life was again. Then someone would die. It was a recurring thing. Religion had nothing to do with my decision. Although I was quite aware of the Bible verses.
I am happily married with a child, so that is no longer on my mind.

Answer 3

This is actually a VERY disturbing question. Just like someone else stated GOD has nothing to do with it. and for the record not everyone is CHRISTIAN....if and when you are depressed all you care about is the pain ending. How do you make it end? Kill yourself...I mean most people that attempt suicide want to live they just don't know how to deal with the pain.

Answer 4

First of all, suicide is not selfish. It means you have tried so hard and you just are falling apart. I won't pretend to know what it's like because I don't know. But a few months ago, I found out my little sister had cut a time or two. It destroyed me inside, I cried myself to sleep for days and didn't talk or pay attention in school the rest of that week. However I never let her see it because I knew I needed to be strong for her, and I needed to show her that yes I know, but I won't say anything because I know how embarrassed she was. So before I go on talking about my crisis, I just felt like saying, if all these people you've never met care about you, keep pushing. I don't know what it feels like to be that down, but I can promise you that I'll always be telling you in my head to keep on pushing, because you are worth it, and you can fight this. I'll end there before I start bawling. Ps. Have you tried simple over the counter medications such as tums or white foods and ginger ale?

Answer 5

Everyone has different reasons for committing suicide.
Yes, people with depression are the most common suspects, but people forget mania?
Some while experiencing mania feel that life couldn't get any better, so they end it while on the top. That way they can't feel everything go down. Also they might think that they're too good for everyone else, so they "won't let them be with them anymore".
When people are driven to suicide, they normally forget about God. That, or they feel abandoned as he hasn't lifted them up out of depression.
Everyone was saying depression so I thought I'd put out a different perspective.

Answer 6

I don't think you do understand depression, have you ever been depressed, have you ever experienced that kind of life where nothing ever goes right? It doesnt matter how much faith we have in god or religion, what matters is how life is treating us, and how there is no other way to fix our pain. I find your question insensitive, and down right ignorant. Research the topic before you go insulting people or preaching about how religion could have made a difference.

Answer 7

I am quite sure it doesn't make sense to anyone who has never been really depressed. I don't know what motivates the truly suicidal, most of them die before we find out.
I know after my Mom died I felt really bad and was very depressed about it. Never took the final steps though, thank God for that.
But I am sure you will hopefully never know the despair they feel. It is probably like describing vision to a blind person.

Answer 8

My sister attempted suicide when I was little. She was about 15 or 16 and it was around the time Curt Cobain killed himself. She was very overweight and my parents seemed to always be ashamed of her. She lived but whats so weird is that we never talked about it and we still dont talk about it. Shes a fine functional person now, but I always wonder what made her do it.

Answer 9

The persons who think of committing suicide do it because they have many problems and do not find a solution, it is the fear of confronting the problems, logically when a person has many problems and wants to commit suicide does not think that his(her,your) life is important Because your this very low autoesteem

If you have reason they are persons who before the demas are happy, but in the bottom(fund) they are not happy because really he feels alone, the loneliness is one of the principal reasons of suicide.

It(He,She) is sad to see that these persons who can be happy prefer the suicide because there are many persons with many problems and nonetheless(though) to be happy to have life.

Answer 10

Everyone has different reasons. As for me i was sexually abused as a very young child and diddnt know how to cope with it. Since, in my predicament i could not get out of it in normal ways i did the only thing i knew to do. Oh, and i am a christian and was at the time also.