Once you become genuinely suicidal, is there ever any going back? Is there anyone who ever sinks that deep and is able to come out of it and put suicide behind them for the rest of their days?
At a certain point, I think you have to admit that you’re never not going to be suicidal.
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I have no idea. To be honest, I’m afraid of the answer.
no clue. good question.
I’ve read very high estimates of the amount of people who have suicidal thoughts at some point in their life. I’ve also read stories by people who were severely depressed (sometimes suffering from other mental illnesses too) and suicidal for a decade or several decades and eventually found treatment in some form or another that stopped them feeling suicidal and made them feel that they’d put their problems behind them. So I think it’s very possible, but it means getting to the root of the problem and solving that, which can take many attempts before it happens. I’ve known quite a lot of people who haven’t stopped being suicidal for decades too, but they’d usually given up on trying different treatments or finding a route to recovery. I think it’s probably very common to think about suicide again in the future if you’ve thought about it lots in the past, even if whatever caused it wasn’t a problem anymore, but not necessarily in the all-consuming way that it can be when you feel that you’ve sunken really deep. I don’t think there’s a certain point where you become too unhappy or severely ill or suicidal for things to get better again. It’s just hard to try and it can take a lot of effort. I think there’s a lack of support out there for people who are chronically suicidal, and it’s hard to keep trying to change things for yourself when you’re deeply suicidal. Lots of people fight to stay alive each day but the root cause of them feeling suicidal stays with them.
Yes.
truthful answer! once suicidal always suicidal, if you don’t commit suicide you still think about it, it’s natural, our minds reach a point where we dream of ending the pain, of one day being free of are demons, we got to that point and it’s hard to give it up, but you come to the conclusion you, need to fight and things do get better, they always do when you fight! so you will think of it less and less, but those days the bad ones, will re-enter your thoughts, ignore them.
I believe YES. you can get past it and move on with life.
many people have done it.
Me I have put it behind me… I am not suicidal at the moment… I am trying to live and move on but I need support and that is why i come to this site. Its been like 8 months since my last attempt and I am hoping to just keep going for as long as I can. It can be done.
Its crazy to think that at one point in my life I didn’t understand depression or suicide….its like it was a different lifetime.
I think that once you get past that point, something in your life deeply changes. But I don’t think there is any reason why you should be occupied with it intesively forever. It all sprout from your life situation – yes that is hard to change but it is doable. Then there will be thought that I had this idea of suicide, but it is not emotionally connected, so also neutral.