Hard to imagine.

[Last chance]

Does anyone else find it hard to imagine not considering suicide as a serious option? People go through hard times or have things wrong with them and don't even consider taking their own lives to escape it?

Ive spoken to people with some serious trauma and not once did they think about killing themselves. It's a total alien concept to me to not want to die,it must be nice.

Even when I am relatively happy it's always at the back of my mind,I think it has been for so long that now I just consider it normal and am kinda shocked when other people dont ever have these thoughts.

 

[WornOutLife]

This is why I have crossed feelings towards normal people.

On the one hand, I don't like them because they're very basic. Just a degree, good job and a family is enough for them.

On the other hand, I admire them because just like any other human, they have problems and somehow deal with them without ctb! For example, most of them have DISGUSTING jobs and still go to work every single day! How can they wake up and repeat the same day over and over again? Just amazing...

 

[FarAcrossTheWater]

I have given up at life. I think losing your will to live is devastating and it's a different thing from other types of hardship. A professor of mine in college told me he thought depression was worse than cancer because with cancer you still have the will to live.

 

[booray]

I guess I was one of those people who never considered suicide, that is, up until a couple of years ago when my life completely fell apart. It's hard to remember what l was thinking about on a day-to-day basis before I became suicidal, the normal mundane things that most people are pre-occupied with in life I suppose. Now, my mind is fixated on suicide from the minute I wake up until I fall asleep. It's a wonder that I can sleep at all. This is a horrible way to be living. It's not like I really want to die, but I just can't go on existing like this anymore.

 

[boydiablo]

It amazes me that not everyone thinks about suicide as an option. For me, it seems like the only option. I think about it constantly. To the point where I go through my daily life looking at things from the perspective of whether or not I could use them to kill myself. And I don't even have anything "wrong" in my life. I don't envy people for whom suicide is unthinkable, though. It's a major comfort to think I could end my life at any time. I've lived this way long enough that it feels like a part of my identity. As long as I can still make myself function I don't even see it as a problem anymore

 

[Last chance]

I have given up at life. I think losing your will to live is devastating but it's a different thing from other types of hardship. A professor of mine in college told me he thought depression was worse than cancer because with cancer you still have the will to live.

I agree with the professor,plus with cancer there is no stigma,there's universal support,praise and love when you go through each stage and get better and possibly,eventually a death softened with a whole lot of morphine.

Contrast that with being alone with your dark thoughts 24/7, being given strange looks/being made to feel guilty when you talk about it,being pressured to not consider it and having to do your best to find the least painful way to end your life without medical support/comfort.

 

[Nexey]

Survival instincts can be a wonderful thing. Sometimes, you're so preoccupied with making it though another day, that suicide isn't even something you can stop and think about.

 

[Last chance]

Survival instincts can be a wonderful thing. Sometimes, you're so preoccupied with making it though another day, that suicide isn't even something you can stop and think about.

Right now it's all I think about,research and work towards. Even when Im having intrusive thoughts about recent happenings in my life when I am trying to go to sleep I can quieten my mind by thinking about ways I could CTB. It'll either pass or I'll go through with it.

 

[lofticries]

Well you have to consider their relgion, support system, and mental health as a whole. Not to mention the thought of death is a grim topic that no one wants to get into. Even suicidal people despite yearning for it are afraid of death in some way.

I honestly think regular people are a bit more passively suicidal then they care to admit. I mean how many times have you heard someone nonchalantly say 'if that ever happens to me just put a bullet in me' or 'i'd rather die then go through with that.'

 

[BandAddict]

Yes, I can't imagine it not being the outcome of my life. Since I was very young, around 7 or so, I've felt that dying was my one saving grace, and one that I can't let go of. Even on my good days, it lingers, it will always be there.

Also, I think more people have considered CTB than those willing to admit it. It's just a matter of how long the feeling lasts and how resilient they are, I guess.

 

[Into The Void]

For many it's a non-starter for several reasons. One, religion has indoctrinated society from centuries past into believing that suicide is a sin. Secondly, everyone thinks that there is a good treatment out there for everyone with depression, which is not true, Thirdly, people fear death because they don't really know what's on the other side or they fear death because they believe there is nothing after this, so they live life as if it was their last.