On March 19th I hit my breaking point and I felt everything more than I have ever felt before. I cried and cried. I never thought I would ever think about such a thing, but I contemplated suicide, I never knew I could be that low. An all time low. I felt the pain of everything from my entire life, it was all back. I had never hurt so much. I couldn’t repress it anymore it was there. I couldn’t take it, so much pain and emptiness that I could not handle. I looked up how much pain killers I would have to take to take my own life. I told someone about the pain, I broke down. She prayed for me and told me I wasn’t alone and assured me that I could do this. I thought that I lost. But my answer was that I needed a change. Today is a new day and I bounced back better than I have ever been before. Life is going to be great and I can do anything. It took 24 hours for me to come back when I could have taken my own life last night. But instead I made a plan, I regained my independence and said goodbye to the bullshit. I am high on life. I would have never thought I could get through something like that in such a small amount of time. In fact, I thought I couldn’t get through it and I had no other options. I am okay, better than okay. I am excited for my new beginning.
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Congrats on your survival, it’s a thing to get through wanting to die. Some people bounce back right away, others take the long road.
The thing is to remember this feeling, write it down, memorize it. Any time those feelings of hopelessness come back, remember hope, remember being ready to take on the world. Even if you don’t feel like that then, you’ll realize that wanting to end it is not a constant, that helps challenge hopelessness.
Ups to you. You are a better person than I could be.