I don’t remember how many times I tried to kill myself. I don’t know about everyone else, but my attempts were never a “cry for help.” I am a person of action: when I decide to do something, I don’t waste time calling people making threats; I do it. I’m 39 now. I know it’s [...]

I have no friends acquaintances or family. Alone and depressed for nearly 60 years. I keep getting an image of reaching for a gun to bring relief. I made a serious attempt in 1989 with more than a gallon of poison. Why I survived I do not know. For anyone that thinks a person that [...]

I think I may have been suicidal since I was young. I remember having dreams of trying to cut off my own head. As a young kid, I was not popular. I was chubby, had a constant runny nose, and I was introverted. I read books most of the time and I didn’t have friends. [...]

i just wanted to write to try and help someone who might be thinking of taking thier own life …. i was 23 when my dad decided that he didn want to be here anymore . I was due to get married 3 months later and my dad had been in the pub the night [...]

I’m not sure if this means anything, really. I don’t know if my suicide story is over. If I really ever came out the other side of that tunnel, as it were. I guess I should tell you my story in some sort of order, or at least tell you something, right? I wasn’t a [...]

If you knew me, you would say, “Why in the world would she want to kill herself.” My response to that is, “I don’t–not really.” I simply want to end the unbearable agony.I think my story is best approached by looking at it from the outside first–the way you see it, and then from the [...]

i am feeling like everything that i do is wrong and my parents are having marrige problems and i watched my momdye and i am still in love with my x girlfriend ai dated for 4 years and my dad and mom think that i can just stop feeling deppressed and my girl now is [...]

cancer 1996. failed chemo. bmt 2004. husband broke vows, skrewed babysitter whne I was 8 months pregnant. i did not throw him out. too scared to be alone. have two amazing sons. am chronically sick and disabled post transpalnt. we are broke without my income. he earns nothing. failed at numerous careers. now I am [...]

Reading some posts on here made me realise that im NOT the only one going through these things. Ive always thought that once im in my adult years all the depression will go away. For me it started when i was 14, when i moved to this country. I just felt out of place you [...]

people love you people care about you people dont want to see you hurting my dad didnt know that …he was ill, clinically depressed, i couldnt save him i was only 10 but i feel the hurt every single day and im now 17 i have depression myself …but i refuse to let it beat [...]