Commiting Suicide?

Question

please help me, I am constantly having suicidal thoughts, and I am constantly obsessing over things.

please help.

Answer 1

I've read lots of articles on suicide, as I've tried to come to terms with exactly what it is that drives an apparently rational human being, sometimes someone who appears to be happy with everything going for them, to take their own life. One thing that I've concluded is that there are many different ways that someone can be driven to suicide. One thing is for certain; suicidal thoughts are always precipitated by long or short-term periods of emotional or physical turmoil. However, those who attempt to commit suicide do not always do so amidst a big fanfare of showy emotionalism. They don't always mope around crying and sobbing before doing the deed. Sometimes suicidal thoughts come as a small, quiet voice in the dead of the night. Not a huge compulsion to do something terminal, but a quietly insistent suggestion from some destructive and deceptive part of your brain. And other times, suicidal thoughts come as a sudden impulse upon which people act before they have time to realize that they're not being rational. Before they realize that things won't always be as bad as they are now. Sometimes such thoughts or compulsions come as a result of chemical imbalances in your brain causing depression and irrational thinking. Other times, they come as a result of emotional or physical assaults such as the death of a family member, splitting up with a partner, moving to a new, seemingly hostile town or school. Still other times, suicidal thoughts may come as a result of publicity in the media, from our peers or on the web. I know it's not politically correct to talk about this, but I'm of the belief that web rings dedicated to people who've committed suicide, or to abused kids can actually place the thought of suicide so uppermost in people's minds that they might see it as a viable option ahead of getting counseling or talking to someone. My suggestion to you is to stay well clear of these rings. They may have started out as self healing, self-help circles, but rather than elevating the mood of the general community, they eat at everyone's psyche like a cancer, painting a falsely negative picture of the world in which we live. Bad things do happen in the world, but linking them all together into a web-ring of misery serves no one. One thing's for sure, although you may still be able to add two and two and carry on the semblance of a normal life when you're feeling suicidal, you are not, repeat NOT, thinking rationally. That's the most important thing for you to realize. Just as a person who's mildly intoxicated by alcohol is not aware of the slowing of his physical reactions, someone in the midst of long-term depression or a momentary life trauma is not fully aware of the subtle distortions in his or her thought patterns. You need to realize that your thoughts will return to normal eventually. If you've been so profoundly affected by a situation, that you're having thoughts of ending your life, there are medications that can help to stabilize your mood until your brain musters its resources and you can think normally again. So you need to talk to someone to get immediate help.

Answer 2

If you're on an anti-depressant, see your doctor. Some anti-depressants have the surprising side-effect on increasing suicidal thoughts.
___You should see someone anyway. Get your suicidality out in the open, with someone you trust or with a professional you can trust.
___I went through a tough patch that lasted a few years (nasty divorce, illness with cognitive impairments, pain, and fatigue, and a lot of unrelated deaths of those close to me). I thought about suicide for a while. But then I thought of the effects on others. I realized that there was no more unambiguous disaffirmation of the value of human life than suicide, and the affirmation of the value of human life is, for me, a central ethical principle. Coming to view it as unethical helped me to close the door on suicide as an option. Then I had a big surprise. Once I stoped considering suicide seriously, the texture of my suffering changed, and became easier to bear. I came to view it as just a coloration of experience, just a feeling, and started to look for ways I could change my situation. I didn't have many options open to me at the time, being broke, unable to work much, impaired in my ability to think about things (the symptoms resembled Alzheimer's), and just plain shell-shocked by all the losses (relatives, best friends, co-workers, and pets). I was still depressed, and felt as if the universe was telling me that it had no room for me. But over the next few years, things began to come together. And the world looks very different today. The crap I went through bolstered my confidence in my own resiliency, and I have few fears today.
___Another problem with suicide is that it negates any possibility that you'll ever come to see the world, and your situation in it, differently. As long as you're alive, things can get better. After suicide, they never can.
___In a way, I hate to say this, but suicidal thoughts are a way of feeling sorry for yourself and wallowing in it. This is probably of no use to you now, but after you get past it, the difference in your experience will fortify you.
___But by all means, find a live person to talk with about this.

Answer 3

Get help immediately. There is no going back from what you're thinking about.

What you describe sounds like a possible clinical depression with obsessive compulsive disorder symptoms. It is very common to have both at the same time. If that's the case, it is a matter of taking the correct medication. The medication acts - as benign as it sound - as a nutritional supplement and regulates your serotonin inhibitors.

Get help and you will eventually feel much better.

Take care and be kind to yourself.

Answer 4

You need professional help, look in your phone book. Sometimes it helps to just call and talk to someone. Someone is always there to help you, and sometimes if you are put on medication, it helps with those thoughts. I am a very spiritual person, and I feel like the devil feeds you dispair. Occupy your mind with useful things, get your self occupied with thoughts of work or school and try as best as you can to ignore the thoughts that go through your mind. Everyone has wrong thoughts and it doesn't make you wrong or bad. Acting on wrong thoughts is wrong, but thinking about wrong things an rebuking them and moving on with your day, means you are a winner and the devil who wants you to feel dispair is the loser.

Answer 5

this is not the place to get that kind of help.
You need to talk to a counselor, like a psychologist... or someone at a hotline. You need a one-on-one conversation with someone who is trained to help you...

If you're in a city, there's generally a hotline. or use the link that someone gave.

If you don't know how to find a hotline, try calling your local Health Department and ask them for a number to call.

You can also call 911. They should know who you can call and talk to.

If you have a doctor you've seen for health care, ask him or his staff for information on who to call.

If you're taking prescription medication, talk to the doctor who prescribed it as some medicines cause this.

If you're taking drugs, you need to talk to someone in NA or AA to get help as drugs can cause this.

Start now... it's just not possible to give you the listening and answering you need online.

Answer 6

You have to talk to someone anyone. Get some help. You can come back from this . I did. It took awhile but I am better now. I went into a mental hospitable talk to a doctor,meet people to talk to went to a therapist about once a week , I took the pills they gave me. I went for walk, I got a dog . Now I am able to work and I don't cry all day . Please get some Help.

Answer 7

Find someone you trust, if not, and perhaps you are somewhat religious, or not even at all, go to a priest, pastor, etc etc. This is just a chapter of your life, not the whole book, and only [you] have the power to write the rest of it. Put a smile on ;-)

Answer 8

There is something positive in everyones life. When suicidal thoughts intrude,concentrate on on those things. I know, I've had those same thoughts.

Answer 9

There are many ways to seek help...

Call hotlines which can be found in your phone book.
Seek self-help groups.
Talk to a professional psychologist.
Find someone whom you trust and allow them to talk you through your pain.
Hell... if nothing else, you're welcome to IM me on Messenger or send me an e-mail. I'm always willing to listen.

Answer 10

i feel the same way. i was dealing with it a couple months ago. and then my life got better and then now it just got bad again. now i realize that life will not always be good. but when it is good, enjoy the **** out of it. if u wanna talk to me just e-mail me. we can go through this together.