This is my first post and I’m ready for oblivion. My name’s Rob & I’m 42 and I’ve always known that I would commit suicide. My life sucks. My wife wants a divorce and I understand. I’m totally fucked up! We’ve been married for 18 yrs. and I’ve spiraled out of control in the last 5. Prescription drugs have been a monkey on my back for a long time. I use the pills to try to feel alive, without them, there’s nothing but a hole where others have happiness or at least contentment. I come by my on little flavor of insanity honestly, my father was a nut job and my mother was only slightly better. He only hit me a couple of times but anger and thus fear were always close. After they split up things were better for awhile until my on mother started putting the moves on me at age 13. Can you believe that, well, it’s true. We never had sex but I always knew she wanted too do it. I was a good looking kid with an insane sense of humor (probably because I’m insane) so I blamed myself. These two idiots totally screwed my head up permanently and all the psychiatrist and counselors and pills can’t fix me. I give up. I don’t fit in anywhere, never have. I’ve always felt that I’m an outside observer of the world, that I’m not really part of reality. I’m an atheist, a realist, inclined toward the sciences and logic. So, at an early age I was telling myself that this Sunday School b.s. is a dead end. Well, anyway, to make a ridiculous long story more digestible I’ll sum up the last 20 yrs. I’ve been creating a doctor, meaning, I’ve put my wife thru undergraduate school, medical school and residency all while attempting an appearance of sanity, even though I was dying inside. This is a Darwinian universe and its evidenced in the vast amounts of cruel indifference that surrounds us. I no longer wish to participate in the pageantry of bullshit that is life. Tried killing myself four days ago. I bought a fifteen ft. hose and ran it from my tail pipe to my back door window. Closed all the windows and recycled the A/C. Nothing but a headache after two hours. I realize now that my 2009 Accord utilizes a low emission system. So, I don’t have a gun and can’t get one because I was a psychiatric patient last year. I’m need some solid ideas.
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Low or zero emissions vehicles have really put a damper on gassing yourself. I wouldn’t recommend trying this method with a modern car. (This reminds me of a comedy bit I saw once where a guy tries to kill himself by breathing exhaust fumes from a Toyota Prius)
I wonder if law makers who got legislation passed for cleaner air had any idea how much of an impact their efforts would have on suicidal candidates.
I miss those old gas guzzling land yachts that didn’t have a catalytic converter.
If you’re ready for oblivion, maybe try a radical change like moving? You’d be surprised what starting over can do for you. You’re already saying screw the job, the money, the rat race. Try going hardcore in life for a bit before ending it. Get a one-way ticket to someplace cool and make a new start there.
Now, if you have kids to finish raising, that’s a responsibility you can’t abandon. But that doesn’t mean you still can’t make radical changes in your life.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m 43 and fairly regular on this site. I know where you’re coming from except for the wife part as I’ve never had that.
Whatever you do, be especially careful. Don’t involve others in your plans. That means trains, buses. If you do that, you affect those people’s lives in terrible ways.
My friend’s Dad just recently made an attempt with alcohol and pills and is now in a permanent vegetative state from cerebral oxygen anoxia. Not pretty, but surprisingly common. Guns frequently don’t do the job either.
Try life in a new outlook. Drop the memories of your crazy parents once and for all and try new stuff. Volunteering helps a lot of people in different ways. Try living before you try to leave it completely. I’m also atheist and so we know, that’s it.
Coming to that realization is both hard and enlightening.
I’ve recently decided I don’t want to kill myself, I want to prove people wrong, I want to prove myself wrong. I had a realization that I am a good person, sounds like you are too. If you’re willing to help your wife with all that. Trying to keep a face so that you don’t hurt her.
I can’t speak the the length of time you were married, I just lost the girl I was going to marry (three fierce fun years, not much compared to your 18) because she couldn’t deal with my depression. She loved me, wanted to be friends, but couldn’t deal with my depression. This is after getting her out of her parents house, helping put her through the last few years of university, and being strong for her while her mother drinked herself to oblivion.
I’ve been ready to die since I realized this ‘black dog’ hovering over me at a younger age. I’ve always thought I was going to go out by my own hand.
I know when I’m in a mindset like that, nothing anyone says will change what I’ve decided. The only thing that keeps me from doing myself in sometimes… actually.. all the time; is the people that I’m not thinking about would be harmed. I don’t want anyone to blame themselves for me, I don’t want to be remembered that way. I don’t want ‘friends’ coming out of the woodwork to say they ‘should have seen it coming’ when those ‘friends’ don’t even know how to spell my last name.
I second the above post, do something nuts that’s not putting a bullet in your head. My thoughts about it are, I’d rather be found dead by my hand by field in New Zealand a million miles from home then some basement in my hometown. Give the locals something to talk about.
Good luck with whatever you decide. Know that as a younger man you’ve given me some more perspective on my own depression and will to live and that your story helped me realize some things. Even if you didn’t mean it that way.
These are sad stories and remind me of others I’ve read in the past. Women leaving marriages after they get their education and are set in life. Very sad..
(but in this case maybe they did crumble under your depression, I don’t know..)
I hope you can get through this and find a way to move on..
if not.. bullets, deep wells/lakes in the country and cement blocks comes to mind
I’ve often wondered if anyone would ever find my body that way..
..prob not for a while