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  • No. It is something you cannot come back from and something that hurts those who love you, are close to you, and know you.
  • No. I had a girlfriend who took a lot of pills once, but it wasn't enough. I had broken up with her and so she came over to my house to make sure I knew whose fault it was.
  • Not seriously, no.
  • No, I have never wanted to attempt suicide
  • No, but I've thought about it before. Quite deeply in fact. I was depressed and using copious quantities of cannabis, amphetamines and ecstasy at the time and just not coping with anything life threw at me, so decided to throw myself from a twelve storey building I had the fortune of having access to the keys to the roof of. I considered myself a coward for not doing it, but as you can tell, I didn't. I can see now that suicide is the act of a coward, and that it takes a greater character to deal with their demons, but at the time i wasn't thinking that way, my mind was a bit of a mess. Thanks for the feedback guys. I haven't really answered the question, I would just like everyone to know that we can all get down at times, and I still do, but it's never bad enough to end your life. Just because you feel shit doesn't mean the whole world is shit, just the corner of it that you happen to be stuck in seems really shit just now, and if you do end your life that's your prerogative, but it means there are people in the future you will never know, places you will never see, children you will never have, and a whole multitude of never ever evers. Look on the bright side, it only takes a moment to change a life, even your own.
  • no i dont think it is right to kill yourself on purpose i think you die when its your turn
  • Almost, but never succeeded (as you can probably guess). Something in my head just said no, don't do it. Edit: Well, the whole thing was I hit a rock bottom point. As low as I have ever been. I was round a friends, and he's in the army, and he had one of his numerous guns lying on the side table (he is also slightly psychotic I believe, he has way too many guns). So I put it in my mouth, but my head said, 'no, wait. His dream is to be in the army, and you could ruin all of it for him if you do this. They'll think he let one of his stupid friends play with a gun.' So I left his, and went home, got the trusty scissors out the draw. But then my head said 'no, this isn't fair either. Your mum will come home and find her little girl dead. Is this the best you can do for her? is it?' So I sat and thought about it. REALLY thought about it. And then I realised: the people in my life don't deserve this. I love them too much to put them through this. And so time passed, and here I am, and I guess I am telling you this because I don't want anyone to make the mistake I almost did.
  • I had a gun up to my head 2-3 times in my life - once when I was in the military. I have also thought about it many times (and also had a counselor, so I had help, was not insane or under the influence of any drugs) over the years. For various reasons to date, have not decided to do it.
  • No...have never considered it, either. After the pain I've gone through after my mother committed suicide, I've just never considered it as an option.
  • I considered it regularly at one point in my life. It got to the point where i felt afraid to be around fast moving traffic incase i suddenly couldn't control the urge to just jump out infront of it or something.
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  • Yes, I had a very traumatic experience when I was younger, after which I took many pills, but then felt sick and told a friend, who went with me to the ER. They made me stay overnight for observation. I vomited in the ER otherwise they may have had to pump my stomach, though I think it's possible that I may not have taken enough really for that either, though I did take way too many. Every time I think about that, which is not that often these days, but when I am reminded of it, I'm just amazed that person was even me. I'm a different person these days, for the better. I've had many low moments, but there are also so many times when I am grateful that this was not a successful suicide attempt. However, I do understand why I felt so low at that moment to think about it enough to feebly attempt it. [ETA]: I just read Stableboy's answer and commented on it (and rated it up, of course). When I was in the hospital after my suicide attempt, everyone pretty much said things like "oh, did you have a fight with your boyfriend?". I found that highly insulting that my pain was trivialized to something like that, as I don't think that having a fight with a boyfriend or girlfriend is in the same category as what I was going through at the time (very awful, so much so that I prefer not to post about it, hope no one minds). It is interesting that people would jump to that conclusion regarding a suicide attempt, because that meant to me that it was probably a common thing somehow.
  • No, but I had really bad suicidal thoughts about a year ago. I went back on a medication and I had overwhelming thoughts about driving my car in front of an oncoming freight train. This was particularly bad because I have to pass train tracks several times on my way to and from work. Thankfully, the thoughts subsided after a few months.
  • Yeah... but I got cold feet and broke off the engagement.
  • I thought about it at one low point in my life, but I would never do it because I am too much of a "chicken".
  • 15. Took half a bottle of Tylenol. Was hospitalized. Didn't get me anywhere but therapy. Glad I didn't go down that way.
  • Yes. Once, when I was particularly depressed about the sea of friendless drudgery that was my life, and about the fact that I was sure it would nver get any better, I went out on a long walk, went down into a storm drain along the bayou, and got a noose all rigged up down there, (I had been planning this for about three weeks.) luckily for me, I had been storing the rope in the storm drain for the last three weeks, and it being cheap cotton rope, it did'nt stand up to the moister so well, and snapped under my wieght and I just ended up with a nasty bruise on my right hipfrom hitting the bottom of the storm drain. I ended up having to go home and think about it while I saved up money for more rope, and in the interim, I had a true apiphanie about the nature of life and my place in it, this was actually about the time I started planning my beardy journey, and that ambition gave me the hope to carry on.
  • No. I've never even considered it. My life, and my outlook on life, have never been bleak enough for that to even creep into my mind. I feel fortunate for that.
  • No. Thank God.
  • On three occasions with varying degrees of success. The first I was fourteen and I didn't do my research properly, I took about thirty ibuprofen and just ended up being incredibly sick. The second was at university, I took an unspecified amount of paracetemol, felt utterly stupid about ten minutes later and walked to the hospital to tell them I was an idiot and could they please try and make sure I didn't really die. The third time was just over two years ago and I don't really remember because I got quite close to suceeding (ended up in hospital again, but was taken there in the back of a stranger's car) I've done other things that were kind of equated with suicide attempts (like walking in front of cars and sitting on beaches waiting for the tide to come in, or trying to drown myself in the bath) but I don't think they really count. I actually don't think it was really me trying to kill myself, just that demon that takes me over sometimes. I definetly wasn't anything I would recognise as "me" at the time.
  • I have been depressed quite a few times in my life but I have to say I never gave suicide serious thought because I am too chicken. When I hear of someone having committed suicide and succeeding.. to me.. they had a strength that cannot be measured.. sure it is often a permanent solution to a temporary problem but to actually overcome fear of death and the unknown and do it? Wow.. it is heart breaking that anyone felt so much pain (in any manner) that they would rather take their own life than to keep living. I could not hurt my loved ones like that.. I have seen the victims suicide leaves behind. It is tragic.
  • Nope, proud of it too!
  • Yeah...In 8th grade...I had tons of family problems so I got into in inhalents and just waiting for the time for it to kill me...Thank God that it didn't
  • I tried to kill myself with a hammer, it just got to sore after a while.
  • No. Thought about it a time or two but then decided I couldn't do that to my kids. That and anything I could think of just sounded like it hurt way too much and if I failed then I didn't want people asking me if I am okay for the rest of my life. That was during a depressing period in my life.
  • No, but a few of my family members have tried. My brother was in the hospital for it for a couple of weeks, and my sister is trying to quit cutting. I haven't tried, but the thought has crossed my mind. When that happens I find something to remind me of what it would do to the people in my life. It's kinda about who you're going to think about. Suicide is actually a very selfish thing, but people who have suicidal thoughts rarely think of this, but that has to do with the depression they're going through
  • No. Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. It is very selfish. Imagine what it would do to your friends and family. It is very cowardly, taking the easy way out,even though I know it must be hard holding a gun to your head, its still cowardly. I feel that alot of people who "try" to commit suicide but fail are really just sending out a cry for help ,and in some cases just want attention. If you really wanted to kill yourself it wouldnt be hard to do and you would go through every effort to make sure you wouldnt be able to live.
  • Never - ever. I love life so much - no matter what it throws at me! Happiness comes from within!
  • yes i try to kill myself before by taking pills and cutting my wrists with sharp objects like knifes and razors blade
  • All the thoughts and the action had strongly been influenced by pills and alcohol. I actually had to go to the hospital for the attempt and that was really the wake up call. I think people might think they want it all over but once it actually goes to the brink of being gone forever they immediately frighten and change their minds. Life is a tricky thing, a challenge, but to give up is cowardly.
  • i have had 2 suicide attempts since may 2006. the first time i had been drinking with friends... and everything just came to a point where i couldnt deal with my life anymore. i was dealing with so much pain in my life for so many years, and i was so out of it all i could think of was ending that pain. i tried to cut my wrist but it didnt work. i didnt have anything sharp enough. so i wrote a letter to my family (without even knowing i did it) saying "all i ever wanted was to be accepted" and then i went in my bathroom and hung myself. thank GOD that what i used wasnt sturdy enough and it broke. i realized what i was doing and tried to call my family. they called 911 and by the time they got to my place i was unconscious on my bathroom floor. i dont remember much of the night. i was hospitalized for a week. the next morning though i realized what i had done. how it not only affected me, but my family. it was the hardest thing to see my family go through the pain of what i did. i still crying remembering what we went through. i had one minor attempt in september also. just been going through extensive therapy to work through everything. its been really hard and im still struggling. even just a few days ago i had to call a crisis clinic.
  • No i have never attempted suicide, i have been through plenty of low points and had anxiety. At the end of the day (in my opinion) nothing is worth taking your own life over, things will get better with time and healing.
  • Sadly, quite a few times. But I got through it, hard times. I've got quite a few scars on both my arms, which, whilst I don't have pride in I don't cover them up as I've found that they've enabled a lot of people who have suffered from depression or are currently suffering, talk about it. I suppose that I'm lucky in a way that unlike a lot of people I never felt shame or embarrasement about what I just considered an illness and not the stigma that for an awful lot of people they see it as.
  • NEVER EVER EVER attempted, but when I'm depressed (I'm talking about REALLY depressed) I sometimes think about it. I'd never do it though, I'd leave to many valuable things/people behind. Also, all my effort at school/work would be wasted, I don't want that to happen.
  • No, seeing my mom do it so many times has made me appreciate how precious life really is! It hurt alot to think someone so close to me would want to end her life.
  • Yes, many times. The last (and final) time I attempted suicide was the most severe. It was June of 2003. I took over 100 pills and was taken to the ER where they pumped my stomach. It was terrible. I am now much better, after being in therapy for all this time, and suicide is not even something I think about anymore.
  • I've attempted twice, but was talked out of it both time. I feel like doing it again though because things don't seem like the effort any more.
  • Yes, when I was a teenager (now 46) and my girlfriend broke up with my. I didn't think I could stand to live any longer so I swallowed about 50 aspirins. All it did (obviously since I'm answering) was make me sick and sleepy. Upside? I haven't had a headache since!
  • According to the doctor i died for a half an hour.. I didn't actually tried anything..i stayed with no food and water for many days and the drugs in the hospital wouldn't help me cause the doctor said i lost the will to live until i found it again. Yes i tried it several times and in many ways but it seems i can't die in peace..
  • Myself, no never, I treasure mine and the life of all other living things. My brothers girlfriend succeeded 3 years ago, she lay on the railway tracks ..... Extremely sad for everyone, created a big hole in our lives.
  • Yes. It obviously didnt work.
  • Yes. It obviously didnt work.
  • i have thought about suicide like how i would do it but i dont think that was ever actually going to do it
  • Yeah, a nice scar on the inside of myy wrist,but i was young and stupid and ill never do it again ..i think.
  • Yes. It was the lowest point of my life. I hit the floor so hard I bounced back pretty far and am stronger for having gone through that.
  • I've thought about it...but not attempt it.....
  • yeah- who hasn't at one point or another? I mean that is if you have lived for at least like fifteen years
  • Yes I have twice. The first time was when I was 14. My father died the year before and I wasn't able to get over it. I'd cry myself to sleep every night, praying to God to let me die. I almost succeeded but was found in time. The 2nd time was after I found out my (now ex) husband cheated on me with one of my 'friends' when I was in the hospital giving birth to our 2nd child. I swallowed a couple bottles of pills then realized that piece of you know what wasn't worth it.
  • not attempting, a thought or two (or ten), nothing too serious, im glad i made this choice not to do so
  • yes...and luckily it never was successful. now your stuck with me. HAHA
  • I tried asphyxiation and was going in some form of sleep but suddenly I was kind of woken up and I observed that I breathing VERY heavily, my stomach had sunk and suddenly took a deep breath and then my breathing stopped. But then I chickened out and got up but my face had turned blue.
  • yes i have. I cut my wrist and my ancles i also used to stab myself when I was bored and i have tried to OD on many drugs and alcohol. I got some help and now I cant even belive i used to do all that sh*t.
  • Yes many times I had Post Partum Depression for several weeks But im cured
  • Yes. But i'm not dead. I slit my wrists alot. I have scars from that. But then a couple months later my head started to work again. And now here i am in a living hell but it's the best anything is going to get for me right now.
  • no. I used to think about it, but not anymore( although my life still sucks horribly). A friend of mine tried twice- and failed both times. He first drank a gallon of chlorine, and then some gasoline. I don't know if that is supposed to kill you or what, but it doesn't sound good, and I really can't imagine trying to swallow anything like that. Anyway- he just got really sick and had some work done in the hospital. A year later he took a bunch of pills, overdosed, and in the hospital his heart stopped or 2 minutes. but, miraculously he recovered, and is doing somewhat better.
  • no. If I did, I don't think that I would be answering this question.
  • Yes. Once after my brother beat me badly and I got my swiss army knife and stabbed myself a few times because I thought he hated me but of course it didn't work out. Well now I know how stupid I was being. I love my brother, he is the best
  • no, but pretty close to it when I was 13 going on 14
  • not attemped but close to it.
  • Yes. Several times. I don't think I would of ever attempted it though.
  • several times. attempted it once. I'm thankful to say that it didn't work and would like to register the fact that looking back I was a pathetic self pitying crybaby who was just feeling bad for myself................ :D
  • There was a study done that stated, besides sex, it is the most thought of thing a teenager thinks about.
  • Yes I thought about it (not too seriously), after my divorce. But then a guy about 3 houses away actually did it after his divorce. It solved nothing, and caused a great and long silence in many lives. After that I never gave those kinds of thoughts a minutes consideration.
  • No but I have thought about it once or twice... but never seriously enough to do anything
  • No I have thought about it often. (especially after my brother commited it) My family thought I would do it ( after my divorce) But I don t think I would ever do it. its hard to realize Im either (too smart to or too cowardly too).Is it cowardly to take your own life or cowardly to "not want to die?"
  • Yes, a year ago. I didn't know much about it, I took a bottle of pills and a bunch of alcohol, which of course didn't work. I suppose I'm glad it didn't. I spent several days throwing up and unable to eat or drink or get out of bed, and something odd happened to my hearing, as if I had water in my ears; all the while I was in a sort of odd altered state. (Hurrah! My first random downrating without an explanation. :) )
  • I really dont see the point in suicide. Even if things really suck in life, I don't see why you could. I mean, you could have a mental disability or be on drugs and not be thinking clearly (like Kurt Cobain), but personally, I wouldn't think about doing it. My friend used to contemplate suicide, but then she stopped once her idol (MCR's Gerard Way) brought up in an interview that suicide isnt the way to go.
  • Some people would think so, a few times. But my take on it is I was taking risks to help others, I was doing stupid risk taking stuff, and once I was very depressed, but I was in control of things. Apparently the doctors I saw off and on agreed with me since none of them ever gave me any antidepressant or other medication for people who usually do that sort of thing. I went to counseling off and on over time, but never for being suicidal.
  • i always think about it. my life is going so badly right now that suicide has been an option. but now i just ignore the badness and think of good so...ya and no i have not attempted suicide
  • No, never.
  • Yes. At least 1-2 times a month the past 10 years.
  • Too many times to count, less now then in the past.
  • Yes I have...many times:(
  • No, I haven't.
  • Yes I have, but I know I am not having serious suicidal thoughts. I couldn't do it to my family, and I know life is a rollercoaster with good times and bad.
  • Yup. I think that a lot of people hit bottom once or twice and think about it, but they just pick themselves up and keep on going.
  • Yes since the 7th grade but when I was most scared that i might actually do it was when nothing bad was happening at that moment it wouldnt be an act of passion i was just sit there thinking Im done with life im done. I dont want to continue...
  • Only during one of my worst migraines. I suddenly remembered hearing that people with chronic pain have a higher suicide rate and I thought to myself that I could understand why. We lived within sight of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore and I thought how jumping off the bridge would make my headache stop.
  • No. Never.
  • No, Never!!! I fear the pain the moment i kill myself, may it be jumping out of the building or taking pills. I am NO coward, i just find committing sucide is NOT an act a responsible able man should do.
  • no but i lectured to people who are suicidal. sadly enough,people who attempts suicide and live will eventually take their own life.
  • Certainly yes. Especially when I was younger and had trouble keeping my emotional responses to things in perspective. I still feel things very deeply but my hide is thicker and I know how to take care of myself when things start to overwhelm me. I call it mental hygiene and it works.
  • Oh Yea...When I discovered my wife's affair, the ONLY thing that stopped me was the image of my grandson and grandaugher...they are my world now.
  • Yes, once, after a long build up of depresseion and while under a lot of pressure. But I survived to learn the lesson: as long as you have more time to live, you can make things better. Things will improve eventually, and you will be happy again. Life in indescribably precious.
  • Yes but only in response to therapy. When I stopped seeing my shrink the thoughts and desire vanished.
  • NO WAY! I can't get enough of life ... Positive energy rules ...
  • Only from the, "Why do people do it?" perspective. Suicide is the final desperate act of rage against life! It solves nothing....instead it compounds the negative karma and guarantees a repeat of the same problems until they are faced. Some people feel trapped in a negative existence that confines their spirit, so they make a mad dash for the only exit they see, not knowing that it leads to an even more negative and constricting existence..not to mention the horrible pain they leave behind in the hearts of those who cared.
  • No, it was more a self pitying thing.
  • yes i have. a few times during my teenage years..but i was able to avoid suicide through careful intervention from friends and family-as well as a therapist. having a close knit bond with my family helped me see the light, and i saw myself as not being totally helpless, but allowed my mind to grow stronger over time
  • About once every 80 seconds these days but i have little confidence i would carry it out, my yearn to harm others keeps me alive. Ironic.
  • yes i have but i try to stay positive about life
  • yes i did try and it didnt work so i guess it wasnt ment to be.i knew someone who did and the family was so hurt and i cant see putting someone you love through that.life is short and we all have to make the best of it.god bless
  • yes....i didnt think what the world would be like w/o me, but i did think about everything i would be missing out in life. what stopped me was thinking about my family and what they would be like if i wasnt around, also everything that i would be missing out on.
  • YES But there are those I love more than myself, and I would not leave them with those memories or such a possible burden of guilt. I can still bear the weight of my own existence.
  • I have considered it many a time over but it has never been I want to kill myself as much as I want to cease to exist. I would never never never want my family to go through the pain I know from my Dad committing suicide. I begin to consider about the kids and who would care for there mental issues as a result of me. So then I go back to the same statement I wish I was never born. Suicidal no but I have been through enough and I am tired. I now have a menatally ill child that I will probally in some form or another care for, for the rest of my life. He will torture me mentally and physically for the rest of my life (unless a miracle happens)Pray for a miracle for me. I love life to much to cease by the way! I just want the daily pain to leave me alone. I am very stuck...the child I love so much is driving me to a place where I DO NOT WANT TO LIVE! I just want the pain to stop.
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  • no. i have never considered suicide. I'm too happy with the way my life is turning out, so I've had no reason too.
  • Yeah, I've felt low. I wouldn't want to kill myself though because there are people who rely on me. I couldn't leave my mum no matter how bad I was feeling. If you really do feel like you need to talk with someone about it, then you should call the suicide hotline or Samaritans. Also read this http://www.metanoia.org/suicide/ And of course, feel free to email me. My address is in my profile.

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