Be that person to save someone on here…be their inspiration to open up their eyes and let them see that their life is worth living for. Don’t just encourage them to end their life or even wish them go luck to end their life, or give them any plans. Be their voice..
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I saved my best friend from suicide when we were teens. I also failed to save another, because I had no idea she was planning it. Now many, many years later, I find myself here….
I never encourage anyone, and never would do such a thing. I would guess that most people, especially if still young, have many reasons to live. But not all of us, especially if we are older.
I think that simply telling a person that “their life is worth living,” when you know nothing about them and can do nothing to help them, actually makes the situation worse. It certainly does for me.
People who do that sound like those who say “Trust Jesus” to a person who is a Hindu, Muslim, or an atheist. They simply don’t get it.
theunknownxx,
Sorry, that last post of mine came out a bit harsher than I meant (I have a problem with that sometimes). I admire you for trying to stop people from ending their lives, and the last two paragraphs were not meant for you specifically.
I am someone who believes in ‘rational suicide,’ which many people reject for many different reasons. I have a problem when young people thinks ‘it’s all over’ for them because they may have a lot of opportunities (or maybe not) to find a rational solution to their troubles, but when you get to be old, things are different, especially when you are alone in the world. The available options become smaller and smaller, until they disappear entirely.
Problem is that it can easily come off as patronizing if you’re not careful, or more about making yourself feel better than the other person. The hard, ugly truth is that we’re just not always (or even often) going to know the right thing to say or the correct action to take. Saying something ignorant out of mere sense of obligation could prove more harmful than not saying anything. It is not any less lonely or alienating.
Actually I’ve suffered through alot, on my other post if you read “What I Wished I Never Had” tells you part of it.
My own brothers tell me to go kill myself, to hang myself, to go slit my wrist. One of my brothers told me one day wen I was with him in his at waiting for a friend said to me “nobody cares about you, I have way more friends that care about me more than you, you’re annoying and nobody likes you, you put mom and dad in debt, kill yourself already.”
I’ve been told by my own parents that I cause them to suffer and to make them sick physically and that I stress them out. People at my school harassed me about my cancer and how it made me look now. And guess what? No one stood up for me, no one defended me, not even my own family. The only person who did was myself. My mom doesn’t even are when my brother tells me to go kill myself but when I call him a name like a fag or douche bag, she yells at me for it. Ie never had a friend or anyone talk me out of suicide, I was on my own for 11 years up till now. Yes I’ve always thought about suicide, and I still do and just a couple days ago I was about to do it but I talked myself out of it, even though I self harmed myself after and took sleepin pills to numb the pain I was feeling and it knocked me out. But like I said, I have been alone and sometimes I still am. Everyone has their own stage of suffering. People who put me down or even my parents that do, make my situation worse, but of someone is trying to help me, actually helps me because its positivity. I’ve been treated really negative for a long time and it has made me worse, but staying away from those people and being in my room away from my parents helped me a little. It all depends on who you are and what your surroundings are, mine was negativity, put downs, death threats, and more…