How many of you have seriously contemplated suicide?

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i'm not planning on killing myself or anything, so don't pm me or lecture or anything...but how many of you have actually almost been to that point? I know it's a touchy subject, if you have a problem with it, just move on to the next thread..
 

Pastfinder

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Once put a .3006 deer rifle into my mouth, but freaked out and ran out of the house and walked all night long around the city.
 

ltk007

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About a year ago one of my sister's friends tried to kill himself. He slit his wrist and nearly bled to death on his floor. His girlfriend found him just in time and he was taken to a hospital. He got some mental help with a psychiatrist and I believe he is getting better.

About 5 or so years ago or something like that (it was the same day as the oklahomo city bombing) a very close family friend went insane and killed his wife, his 3 year old, and himself. His divorce drove him over the edge and he apparently couldn't stand to be without his daughter.

I've been depressed, but never to the point where I would attempt suicide. I always thought life with be easier if I were dead, but I've never tested my theory.
 

Windogg

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No but I've beat the hell out of inanimaye objects before out of sheer anger/frustration/depression. Tough on the knuckles and cabinets but it works.

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Warrenton

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Three and a half years ago I attempted to OD on pain killers... It cleared up my headache from the stress of life dang quick. I took the pills, then called 911 about 20 seconds afterwards... I didn't really want to die. Of course I did go to the hospital and had my stomach pumped, well they couldn't get anything out of me, no pill fragments that should have been there. Then they start accusing me of making it all up!!! Finally I told them to just make me vomit. So they over filled my stomach with the saline water from the pump, and out it all came. Nice pile of pills. The reason they wouldn't pump out is that they hadn't been there but maybe 10 minutes, so they hadn't even started to disolve hardly.
 

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I Had a friend at work ,he lost his girlfriend & he committed suicide very sad,have not been anywhere close myself to doing so.
 

NakaNaka

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wow im so suprised so many of you had tried?? not saying anything against you it crossed my mind once for like half a second and then instead took the baseball and chucked it at the AC ...

What drove you guys over the edge?? Mine was pressure from school (not parents just the school)
 

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The truly serious wouldn't be posting here.

"Just do it right the first time; no one likes a suicide chump" (Frank Zappa)
 

Viper GTS

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Considered, but never attempted.

Anti-depressants have helped a lot, I don't think like that anymore.

There were times, though, when I'd lay in bed thinking of the 500 count bottle of Tylenol PM that we had upstairs in the medicine cabinet. 500 pills, each with tylenol & a sleep agent. Wondering how many it would take to kill me. Scary stuff.

Viper GTS
 

Killbat

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"The truly serious wouldn't be posting here."
Really, you doubt everyone's word? Eh, think what you will.

I had suicidal thoughts a few years back when I went through a depressive spell. I still thank God that I didn't have the balls to actually stick a gun in my mouth. I had to get a new clock, though. (Well, after I pulled the plastic shards out of my hand)
 

M00T

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Stared for many hours at the knives in my kitchen when I was younger. Too afraid to think about it now, since I've come closer to being a christian.
 

Fathom4

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Last year during the holidays I was very down. My wife was having an affair and refused to go to counseling, I thought long and hard about it and even walked down to the basement to get a shotgun. Then I thought about how my actions would affect my children and my family.

Life will never be so difficult that I would ever put them through the pain of suicide.

[edit] There's one I hadn't ever shared before. Until I saw this thread I had it pretty well suppressed.
 

Isla

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NakaNaka

I was pushed over the edge by sexual harrassment at school. I was a bodacious young babe and those were the days when teachers just turned the other way...

I was a total ugly duckling as a kid and all the kids were mean to me. Then I blossomed and all the boys said nasty things to me (and grabbed at me every chance they could get) and all the girls hated me and spread cruel rumors about me. I couldn't go out on a date without being attacked by some guy who thought he could get some.

I'm still twitching.
 

Nessoldaccount

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I'm not suicidal but I have a problem when I'm up high in buildings on balconies.

Sometimes I have to hold myself back from trying to jump off, it's weird, like so tempting. I just lean over till I'm about to fall then I run backwards...playing chicken with myself I guess.
 

Fathom4

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Damn Ness! Everyone thinks I'm nuts for that!

It's weird, you get the overwhelming urge to jump and really have to force yourself away...afraid of heights but a need to jump.

Scary as hell.
 

Isla

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Moot

I can show you a picture of me as a kid. I paid my dues. Porky and cross-eyed w/glasses and a short Dorothy Hamil 'do. :p (took 5 operations on my eyes to straighten them out.)

Fathom

Oh, and I think about driving off the bridge all the time. I don't 'cause that would be stupid, but I still think about it.