Why do people suicide?

Answer 1

Hi,
from someone who has personally been extremely suicidal at one point and indeed various points of life i can only give my opinion on why i think it happens.
Alot of times suicide is linked with depression, which means to start with the individual is not in a "health"...wanting to live...state of mind. It's a feeling of being numb, were you don't feel anything and when you do it'se usually pain and unhappiness, you feel ashamed for feeling that way, your esteem is off the charti it's so low and you don't see how you will ever get out of this state, or why it's even worth trying. nothing seems good or worth living for and you just want to end your mental torture.
It's a very hard thing to understand if you have never felt it. There are people who commit suicide because of reasons such as loving a lost one, perhaps having a fatal illness that they don't want to drag out their life with, extreme feelings of guilt for something they have done etc.

I believe people who commit suicide dont do it out of a selfish act, which many people believe...they feel they are a burden to their family and friends because they can't partake in life with them as they usually feel so depressed and out of it, they feel they are letting people down and to die is the way of stoping all of this.

Answer 2

You don't suicide you commit suicide. There are many reasons as to why people do this and the most common is that they have come to a point in their lives where it seems the only way to get rid of your problems and make everything better. It normally happens when you have severe feelings of depression.

Answer 3

So many reasons as to why people commit suicide or try to and all of them are individual to that person.

It is often related to a mental illness such as depression, psychosis, personality disorders etc but not always.

From a personal perspective it has always been because I've been unable to see any other way out. It's felt as if there's no other choice, as if I'm a burden to everyone in my life and they'd be better off without me. I always believed that they'd get over my death and that it would be easier to do that than to continue having me in their lives causing so much pain and misery.
It was also because, to put it simply, it hurt too much inside to deal with. It felt as if my soul was dying. I was exhausted, tired of feeling so bad, tired of fighting for every second of every day. I was sick of hearing people tell me it'd get better when it hadn't after 8 years. I didn't believe anyone could help me when in reality they were doing everything they could to do just that. They'd had me on so may medications and none had helped, I'd been through therapists and CPN's and psychiatrists, GP's and counsellors and yet all I wanted to do was to die so why didn't I?

When you're in physical pain you can almost always alleviate it with medications but how can you stop your heart and soul from hurting - the only way I could see was to stop existing. Even though I'm a lot better now I still see that as my way out if things got that bad again.

Answer 4

at the end of the day it is one of the only things that you can do totally for yourself i am speaking as a person who a very close friend commited suicide a few years ago and this was the only way i could look at it

of course some people will say it is selfish but then if your life is totally awful to live then you need to do what makes you feel best and i truly believe for my friend this is what he did

he had tried to get some help but at the end of the day he thought it was not working for him and so the best thing for him was suicide

Answer 5

People commit suicide as there is an imbalance of chemicals in there brain, that is why you need antidepressants to try and put the right chemicals back into your system. It is a terrible illness and very hard to get the right treatment, it is a case of trial and error before they find the right drugs

Answer 6

because theyve got to such a stage in their life they see no way out of their bad feelings, and theyre hurting so much its unbearable, also many suicidals feel their loved ones would be so much happier without them ruining their lives, they have such low self esteem, they often feel totally worthless

Answer 7

I've attempted suicide when I've been so depressed and can't face living another moment. Everything is so bleak, you can't see another way.

Answer 8

they feel its their only way out, some people deal with things differently, others take an extreme and en it all!! its just the way they deal with the problems they are facing and that problem is life!

Answer 9

because they don't want to live. They are sick of trying and are unable to find anything that helps.