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How many of you have seriously contemplated suicide?

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Have always thought about it constantly, but a little too curious what the future holds. Plus would never consider now with a kid, owe it to him after the whole divorce thing.......
 
TRP

My husband likes to joke that he would have killed himself if he didn;t have such a high opinion of himself. 🙂 I think that is the key.... self esteem, worth, etc, plus a sense of the miraculous. 😉
 
Don't get me wrong. I believe everyone has the right to decide their own fate; that Kevorkian is a permissable facilitator.

Don't get me wrong; I also think that everyone should do their best, or be judged an under-achiever.

I agree with Zappa.
 
When in grade 8 I used to fanticize about jumping from the bridge by my school...it was not a happy year.
 
ISLA

I can buy that. I have always had a healthy ego, a need to succeed, achieve. Not in the typical "TYPE A" manner. I derived immense self-satisfaction from academic and now professional achievements. I don't do it for anyone else but myself. My life has always been well-rounded but the core of my personality was there from Kindergarten.

Nature and Nuture it seems. I have wonderful parents who, looking back, provided all I needed. They are special people. I was lucky.
 
TRP

I have been blessed with great parents, too. They are why, ultimately, I survived.

I just couldn't understand the rejection from my peers. My family thought I was great!

Anybody who is reading this, think twice the next time you make fun of someone because of how they look, or because they are somehow different from you. You may really be destroying someone.
 
I've been going through depression over the last few years so I've thought about it quite often. I'm generally an optimistic person so its only ever got to thoughts. I finally seem to kicked the depression so that should be that! WOOOHHHOOOO!
 
I learned a painful lesson at a young that most people are full of sh1t and worth the effort. I always had a small inner circle and see acquiantances for what they were/are: transient. Sounds a bit tough but the good ones always shine through.
 
I made two serious attempts at suicide many years ago. I somehow survived massive drug overdoses that should have killed me even if I had been an elephant. The sad irony is that I was young and strong and healthy then. I thought I wanted to die because I was miserable and lonely. Now I am weak, in constant pain, and facing death, but I see each moment of life as a precious gift which, however unpleasant it may seem, has some facet of beauty to it. And I can truly say that I am happy.
 
Who ever mentioned that "I'm afraid of heights, but when I am up there I have to hold myself back from jumping off" I can TOTALLY relate to that. I often feel the same way. It's an odd feeling.

I can't say that I have thought about suicide, but I have thought about killing myself to see what it is like to die and what happens afterwards. Unfortunatly the price is a little steep for me to try it out 😉
 
not really.

i live in nyc, so, you can say that my riding the subway to school is me just asking for it ;-)
 
Contemplated it, that's all. I've always snapped back to the real world before any attempt and realized that my life wasn't that bad, relatively. I've always had to deal with massive mood swings, I still fight them to this day.
 
I've thought about it in the same way I think "what would I do if Heidi Klum(or any really famous model really) were to knock on my front door heh. I don't think I could ever do anything that though, I"m way way too happy for that now thats for sure!
 
think about the possibility every day, but have never attempted, nor do i plan. it's a permanent solution to a temporary problem
 
for me ? or for someone else ?


& Da#n, I can not believe I am the only one that has jumped !!!
 
My mind
"hey, what about a gun, its quick"
"no takes to little time"
"how about hanging then?"
"nope, takes to long and probably hurts alot"
"then how about jumping from a cliff or something?"
"hmm, yeah, that will be worth it"
"so will you do it"
"no, no way, not now at least"
 


<< i live in nyc, so, you can say that my riding the subway to school is me just asking for it 😉 >>



Hehhe I take the subway to school in NYC every day too

What school you go to>?
 


<< i live in nyc, so, you can say that my riding the subway to school is me just asking for it 😉 >>



Hehhe I take the subway to school in NYC every day too

What school you go to>?
 
I contemplated suicide once when i was in the 8th grade. I forgot why, but i wanted to slash my wrist and jump off a bridge. 🙁
 
This is actually funny...my friend and I make fun of this girl all the time (without her knowing of course 😉)...

She is this little, tiny, spoiled brat who can get everything she wants and is utterly cruel to her parents and brother...if she would just be nice to them there would be no problems. So she makes up her depression all the time...from stuff that just DOES NOT make sense...such as not having a boyfriend...well, she had 7 in a 9 month period...and a bunch of other BS.

Here are the ways she attempted suicide:

1. Slitting her wrists...with BUTTER KNIVES!
2. Overdosing...on TYLENOL! (heh, my friend and I think that she took two and felt better 😉)

I forgot a few other ways though...I haven't talked to her in 2 years...geez, I talked her out of suicide about 3 times...

EDIT: I personally have thought about it for about 3 seconds total...then I thought, &quot;Why would I do that?! Just so I don't have to deal with life...what kinda coward would do that!? Plus, everyone I know would miss me too much and feel awful and I couldn't do that to them.&quot;
 
I contemplate suicide everytime I get a call like this:

Customer: &quot;Hi. I bought all of the parts needed to put a computer together. At first, the machine wouldn't boot. Then I pulled the board out of the case and it started. I put it back in the case and it didn't. I pulled it back out of the case and it started. A friend came by and told me that I had to use stand offs. I didn't know what stand offs were, so I didn't use them. I then put the stand offs in the case and bolted the motherboard into the case. I plugged everything in and it didn't boot. I unplugged everything and it booted. I then plugged everything in again and it went ahead and booted. I then went into the BIOS. I changed my spread spectrum and cache ECC and my BIOS cacheable and my boot sequence and my primary display adapter to AGP and my CAS latency to 2 and my RAS latency to 2. I don't know what any of this stuff is, but I have a friend who has a cousin who has a friend that read a post on [H]ard|OCP that said that these setting will make my Windows boot faster. I then turned it on and it said boot disk failure. It would not boot off the hard drive so I took an old hard drive and put it in the machine and boot off of it and it worked so I put the new drive back in and it didn't boot so I asked my brother what was wrong and he said that the hard drive was blank and you can't boot off of a blank hard drive and that I need to boot off of the CD, but I can't boot off of the CD because I didn't buy a Windows CD. My CD is a copy I got from a friend who has an uncle who is a teacher at a computer lab in a school down in Texas. So I called him up and asked him how I can install my harddrive if I can't boot off my CD because my CD is not bootable and he said that I could boot off of a floppy drive and then he would tell me how to do FDISK and Format. So I made a bootable floppy disk on my computer by going to add and remove programs and selecting to make start up disk. I took that disk to my new computer and stuck it in, but the computer never reads the disk. The disk light is always on and it never turns off, so I made another startup disk with another disk and tried it but the light is always on on the floppy drive and I can't understand why it won't boot off of that floppy disk. Why won't it boot of the floppy disk?&quot;

Me: &quot;The cable's backwards on the floppy drive.&quot;

Customer: &quot;Oh. OK.&quot;
 
I was thinking about that, but never tried ... The only thing that stopped me from doing that is ... my computer ... for real ...
 
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