June 9, 2012
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Attempting Suicide
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting that more teenagers are attempting suicide.
According to the report, the number of teenagers that attempted suicide in 2011 was 7.8%. Here is the link: Link
Have you ever attempted suicide?
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Yup
No. But I’ve thought about it.
Nah. I’ve never intentionally attempted, but I spent a long time dealing with self-mutilation, and suicidal thoughts though I’ve never gone through with.
I thought about it, but didn’t go through with it.
Coming home tonight, a guy tried to commit suicide by jumping in front of a train. Luckily, there were 6 guys close by who apparently pulled him back at the last moment.
A few times when I was much younger. Nearly succeeded once.
Sad. Just sad.
Uh, yeah.
that i have never done
I just read the title..then thought “NO WAY!” DON’T!!! Yay to it just purely being a brilliant title!:)
ps. I’ve never temped it. Not planning it anytime soon. But probably will be the way I die whenever it happens.
Nope. The world needs my awesome to continue.
Yes.
Yeh, but I always chickened out, but still the thoughts were repetitive. I thought about it alot. Dont so much now. Mostly in my teenage years & early 20s. SO yeh I just got over it……..
Nope, never.
No comment
Yes with pills and a bottle of vodka… Nothing happened. I assume it will effect me more when I’m older though.
Yes once but I was stupid then. I’ve only thought about it since then.
Why speed my entrance to hell?
Yes overdosed. Next time I jumped off a bridge, and survived…
No, but I purchased good life insurance just-in-case.
I’m also an organ donor. (But I suppose that’s more for my bad driving.)
No, but I’ve had a very close friend attempt. I ended up taking him to the hospital where he stayed overnight. It was pretty scary. I just always try to tell people that it gets better.
Not good enough!
Negative ghost rider.
Dan if you’re thinking about it, call the 1-800 Hotline. Xanga cannot afford to lose you.
Yes. Overdosed on Tylenol PM. It didn’t kill me but was probably two of the better nights of sleep I’ve ever had.
nope
twice, one of which was a few months ago
no, I just blogged about it when I was a miserable self loathing emo-geek in high school, because I didn’t have a job and had nothing else to do after I was done with my homework. being miserable was better than being bored. I’m a happy adult now, who is too arrogant to die
I tried to off myself twice. Thank God I’m still here. Life is pretty damn awesome now.
Twice. I tried to drown myself both times.
Everybody thinks about it at some point in their life. I’ve thought about it but never attempted; don’t want to.
I support your right to suicide depending on your situation. Not everybody who kills themselves do it for what is, in my opinion, the right reason.
@XxbutterflyknivesXx -
You really tried to drown yourself? Dang. That takes some hardcore resolve. What happened if you don’t mind me asking?
nope!
Or you do it or you dont….
@LSP1 - No, shut up, I’ll get his subscribers!
No i hadn’t attempted. I was in severe depression for a great deal of my young life, and I thought about it often, but never had the balls to go through with it.
As of today i beat my depression by knowing that there are people in the world that need me as much as i need them, and i can’t let them go through life alone.
The rest of the world needs some help too, so i’m gonna do my part to make it a better place, so more young people will have an easier life, deal with less depression, and hopefully reduce the overall rate of suicide. That’s part of the goal anyway.
um……
yes.
@MedicMark - What happened when I tried to do it? The first time, I started blacking out, but I involuntarily came up for air. The second time, I swallowed a ton of water as well as breathed in a ton of water, and I ended up choking and coming back up. That time, it took awhile for me to actually breathe when my head was up out of the water. I tried a few more times after initally trying, but the same thing kept happening and I’d find myself either blacking out a little and instinctively stopping myself or breathing in more water and trying to cough it out of my lungs.
No.
yes. and look how many people said yes. scary
no, but i’ve been very close… like, knife-to-my-wrist close. it’s scary. depending on what kind of suicidal thoughts you have, it can feel so involuntary that you actually feel like someone else is trying to kill you.
a great resource, for anyone with suicidal thoughts: http://www.metanoia.org/suicide/ it’s literally saved my life SEVERAL times.
Yes, but it didn’t work. That’s how I discovered cutting.
@ShimmerBodyCream - Ok. You’re a lot prettier anyway.
Not sure if this post is meant to be serious, probably not, but I always take this stuff seriously:
No.
I would only kill myself if I knew I’d actually die. I would never want to live with a failed attempt. I would feel HORRIBLE.
Also, anyone see on the news that man survived jumping Niagra falls? And then a stunt man jumped out of a plane without a parachute, and he survived. It’s a weird world we live in. I guess it shows that you can never be sure your plan will work. Which is enough for me to never try. Too risky.
Anyone who needs help, PLEASE CALL A HOTLINE, tell a friend, see a counselor if you can afford one! Some have sliding scales!! I hate seeing people suffer. It took me 6 years to get actual help and it was SO scary/costly/a long process, but it was really really worth it…I know I would never do anything like what I pictured and spelled out above.
I am healthy now and two years ago-ish now my uncle committed suicide. I twas so sad to see how it affected his daughter, his family, everyone…I think more people care about us then we realize, even when we are at our worst state, even when we think we are unforgivable, PEOPLE STILL CARE. forgive, and have mercy. Life is really hard but there are sometimes tiny moments where I’m like, “wow, I’m glad I was here for that.” LIke today, watching my younger brother graduate high school…that moment is so worth being here for. I think there are moments like that in everyone’s life, upcoming, that will be like that. Somehow. Even if it doesn’t seem like it. Time is the strangest thing
In the meantime,
Hotline number (US) is:
1-800-273-8255
Yes.
Yes.
I was nine.
Decided against the video response.
Answer to this question- yes. 12 times since October 2011.
xo’
No, thought about it several times when I was a teenager.
I’m not capable of wanting to kill myself, so no. But I quite wish I was. This whole “living” thing is getting too bothersome.
Never. I analyze things to death so I never do anything impulsive, which to me suicide would be.
No, but I have thought once of twice about driving my car off a cliff/bridge while I was driving. Never did it though. I know some times can be tough but they usually pass and better stuff comes along.
No but my daughter did attempt and complete suicide when she was seventeen, ten years ago I found her hanging in my garage from the rafters.
No but my daughter did attempt and complete suicide when she was seventeen, ten years ago I found her hanging in my garage from the rafters.
Never ever had any suicidal thoughts or tried to kill myself. I don’t understand what might make someone want to end their life– because once you end it, there is NO going back.
@Celestial_Teapot - Ha ha! Joke is on you! Life insurance doesn’t pay out for suicide (in fact, it doesn’t pay out for many accidental deaths). And we don’t harvest organs from someone who’s dead in an uncontrolled environment (meaning that you have to leave this life in a hospital on a ventilator – so that the tissue doesn’t ‘die’ from lack of oxygen). If someone dies at home or is dead at the scene of an accident then the organs can’t be harvested for transplant. In the meantime, wear your seatbelt and never blog while driving!
No, but I come close to thinking about it every election year. Moving to Canada might be less painful.
@beesuze - Accidental insurance doesn’t life insurance does.
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To the point where I was on first name basis with the doctors and nurses. I’ve lost count, hah.
I actually -did- die one time. For about a minute.
Nope
I have often wondered if anyone would miss me if I was gone, but never actually considered suicide.
@laytexduckie - I am so glad that those people were there to save him…I shudder at the thought of a heavy metal object crushing someone to death =/.
@summereque – I wasn’t there at the time, but that’s what someone else at the platform told me. All I managed to see was a guy kicking and screaming as he was being restrained on a stretcher by 7 police officers and firefighters.
“Attempting suicide” ennerves me. People will not fail suicide if they really want it but in rare exceptions. People lack seriousness and conviction and follow trends, a failed suicide is one of them. “attempt” literally means to try. So it means they did not try hard enough, so they ”missed”. We see it has something to do with mental laziness. This failing is a reflexion of a capricious and silly society.
@laytexduckie - Damn if I have seen that site I would have been scared! =/.
@summereque – Yeah, me too. The closest to anything like that was when I was working in Philly, and as I walking, I saw a bunch of cops and firefighters around. I saw a a tarp on the ground and didn’t pay much attention to it unless I looked closer and saw a foot coming from underneath it. Turns out on the news that a guy jumped off the 12th floor to his death.
I’ve thought about it, but I’ve never made a serious attempt.
@laytexduckie - OMG =/. Generally whenever the trains say delay it really means that someone may have jump (or so I have been told by people who told me why a delay can take up to 30 to 45 mins or something…
Instead of polling Xanga subscribers, I would wonder why the rate is going up, and what we all can do about it.
Love gave me those thoughts once. I fell in live with a person other than my wife. I just needed to be with the person I was in love with. I investigated suicide, but could not do it. I made the right choice instead. For the past 22 years, I have been with the woman I love. I made the right choice to get out of the wrong thing. I AM HAPPY. LIFE IS GREAT.
@summereque - Yeah. There was an article somewhere on Gizmodo where a former MTA workers talks about different codes. Like how when they say the train is delayed because of a “sick person” on board, it actually means that someone is dead. It actually happened to me once when I was heading home from work. We were at a stop for about 15 minutes when they made the announcement. They then said this was the last stop and everyone had to get off. I walked up to the street level and saw an ambulance crew waiting with a stretcher and a bag.
Yes.
@laytexduckie - LOL good old MTA
Yeah, there was one time where the train was delayed due to police activities…and at least they announce that to let everyone know why we were delayed and everything. And the doors were closed for that reason and even though I wanted to get out at that stop I had to wait. I was close enough to hear everything going on and the police radioing to the MTA worker to let them know when the doors can open and etc. But I never knew that someone being sick really meant that someone was dead. Then again I always wondered why someone being sick would cause that huge of the delay (with the exception of vomit on the floor or something and even then the subways shouldn’t be that delayed). I guess that emergency going on right now might be because someone jumped =/.
yep, OD’ed. Had two seizures, got my stomach pumped, three days in ICU, 5 weeks inpatient
@summereque - Ah. Yeah. I know that sometimes, they would say, “A train is delayed because an investigation is going on.” I either concluded that police are arresting someone on the train or maybe someone jumped onto the tracks. But, you can’t be surprised at the things that happen on a NYC subway. Hahah. I mean, the thing that caught me off guard the most was within my first two weeks of moving to NYC, I went to go up the stairs and there’s a huge unhuman-sized pile of dripping shit going down the stairway; as if a horse decided to ride the subway or something.
But yeah, after reading that article, I was slightly enlightened and started paying attention to the announcements.
@Celestial_Teapot - Wow. Thought you were just making a funny. People who get life insurance that will pay off if they commit suicide should be spending those premiums on therapy to help them with their depression. I’ve cared for terminally ill patients who were in tremendous pain and didn’t want to “off” themselves. Mental illness isn’t easy to treat, and there is a stigma attached to it, but I believe most suicides could be prevented if people would just seek out some kind of help.
More elderly people kill themselves every year than teens.
@laytexduckie - Oh good ol NYC subways
It’s famous for everything =] According to several people who talked to me, they told me how the subways are confusing to them. As for the announcements…sometimes I can’t hear them or the train dispatcher decides to be delayed for whatever reasons…although the logical explanation I have is that the train caught up to the other train that is going very slowly for some reason (due to traffic on the subway lines or something). It’s sometimes stops in the middle of the station where I need to get out and then I have to wait there for ever…(or it feels like it) and this sucks when I have to get to my classes =/.
@summereque - Yeah, for first timers to the city, it can be VERY confusing. It took me a good few times before I started getting the hang of which trains go to which boroughs. And with the delays, I know them all too well. I always learn that if it’s an express and local train merging onto one track, the local trains always go first (N and Q). I’ve gotten it down to a science of knowing which side of the train to be on so I can get out the quickest and which door to be at to reach the stairs first. Hahaha.
that’s scary considering that I consider myself pretty messed up, but never attempted suicide.
No, but only because I got talked out of it by a friend who probably saved my life.
Never actually tried it. Thought on it deeply, prayed or death. Never actually seriously tried it though.
Yes, but I wasn’t a teen when I did. I was 23 and my mother had just died in front of me from cancer. I’ve had suicidal thoughts before that for years and still do today but I won’t attempt it.
Best to keep this one to myself….
Sadly anybody who is really depressed enough to do it will likely succeed cuz attention whores, drama queens, and manipulative bitches have pulled the “I’m gonna kill myself” card so often that it’s hard to take it seriously.
I must have because they gave me shock treatment…and that is the usual course of events.
I do suffer from suicide ideation.
No way. I am afraid I’d miss something. I want to live forever!
I’ve contemplated whether or not it would be easier if I wasnt here on earth anymore, but not anymore. I’m just doing my best to live life to the fullest and improve myself mentally, physically and spiritually.
I have suicidal thoughts a lot, and I have gotten close to attempting it a few times…but I’ve never actually attempted.
Yep, a few different times. I didn’t know when I was younger that taking tylenol will not kill you, just probably mess up your organs, I’ll be paying for that when I am older. I’ve always been depressed though, so yeah… I dont think I’d attempt it again.,
Yes. I tried to drown myself. Ended up in a pysch ward for 5 days. Worst place I have ever been, thoughts of going back there are enough to keep me from not attempting suicide again. My depression and anxiety still get the better of me some days. However, my attempted suicide is one of the best things that has ever happened to me. It forced me to confront another problem which I am getting help for and slowly getting better.
@laytexduckie - that’s good
no. I don’t want to leave those I loved!
I don’t think so.
i tried it once…i overdosed dormicum tablet….good thing is, im still alive.and i come up into realization that life is indeed beautiful no matter what…..so, i didn’t do it again….
I never really attempted. I did alot of SI, in my youth.
Yes. I had full plans to die. I didn’t realize the one person was taking it seriously, but then he told my friend. I only gave him her info because I wanted him to be able to keep in contact with people who “cared” about me afterwards, and I just wanted someone to talk to in the meantime. That always proves to be a mistake, lol. 3 months later, he caused me to try again, but I did that for attention. I wasn’t very emotionally mature. And then she hated me a few months later, for reasons I still don’t know, and has ever since. I try not to talk to people from high school anymore, but she has made condescending comments towards me. It’s like, you don’t have to like me, but just don’t comment, you k now? I wasn’t allowed to dislike her but according to my parents she “saved my life.” Well thanks, I guess. She only cares when she gets recognition, fucking narcissist.
Well that was a rant. I guess
I haven’t had too many good friends. People are unforgiving, but so is life, man.
Not exactly. I’ve attempted to give myself an allergic reaction that I knew wouldn’t kill me, just mess me up for awhile. But as for actually attempting to kill myself, I couldn’t do that. I guess I really don’t like irreversible decisions.
@saturnschild1 - I’m so sorry to hear that.
I have wanted to. But I never actually put any actions to my plannings.And, in the long run, I’m sure I’ll be thankful.
I hope God can use me to help people who fight that battle like I did. I hope he can use me to help me inspire people to live. Wish me luck!
@Adrenaline_Unknown - It is a hard thing to understand when you’ve never felt that down before. Hope is an important thing in the game of life. Most people whom attempt suicide have pretty much lost all hope. Hope that things will ever get better. They feel beat down, often alone, and helpless. Some people see it as a means of reclaiming their life from situations in their life that have taken control of their life… Such as an abusive parent-child relationship, among other things. Some people just feel so worthless. There are numerous reasons.
Help to encourage those whom you know struggle with lowly feelings. You never know when a kind word or deed might be the reason they keep on living. I’ve had people from high school message me on myspace and facebook to tell me thanks…. That a kindness I showed back in high school was the only reason they didn’t commit suicide back then. So, be thoughtful. You never know when your words to someone may mean the word.
*hugs*