SI will slowly decrease overtime the longer you remain suicidal

[Siamese Believe]

At which point you could also start to consider more violent methods if smoother methods don't seem promising enough. Not a guarantee of course but it could happen.

Not because you think it won't hurt that bad, but because desperate times call for desperate measures. I've tried to look at this way, a painful death is still gonna be short compared to 6 - 7 decades of pure agony.

The human lifespan is very long, I feel as though many truly underestimate how long 60+ years really is. Sometimes the ends will justify the means. Even the unhealthiest of people are likely to make it to their 40s - 50s.

 

[kitty.iceFS]

i felt that very heavily with "desperate times calls for desperate times" ,
when you are stuck in a very very dark difficult place with no light or real hope in sight for a long time
the act starts to disguise itself as a slight bit of hope, suddenly you don't care how you do it, just that you're able to grab that glimpse of light

that has always been my experience
but I wonder about impulsive attempts, I think they experience SI far more intense, idk SI sucks overall

 

[2minutes2ctb]

but I wonder about impulsive attempts, I think they experience SI far more intense, idk SI sucks overall

Do you think so ?
From experience, the more you think about it… the more SI kicks in.
I'd have thought that impulsive attempts would have the highest success rate, but I might be wrong.

 

[kitty.iceFS]

Do you think so ?
From experience, the more you think about it… the more SI kicks in.
I'd have thought that impulsive attempts would have the highest success rate, but I might be wrong.

I'm not sure, since everyone is different and experiences as well but I've never really experienced SI even though I was close to not surviving which in that case I think SI depends on methods, planning / impulsivity, emotional state etc there's probably a lot of factors that determines the intensity of SI?
for example - if you were tipsy or drunk, something similar I would assume that you're far less likely to experience SI, or maybe the intensity of it lessens perhaps, since alcohol calms, and impairs judgment..you get the point what the consequences would be

however, I do see why you'd think impulsive attempts would have higher success rate and infact I agree with you but it also depends? I can definitely see an impulsive person having a higher rate of success but, the thing is if that person mid-way an attempt starts to realise what they're doing, they may experience the worst SI but succeeding in the end? I can see that happening, and def succeeding as well - depending on the lengths of the attempt maybe…
They also may experience SI and may fail by some miracle or whatever

 

[Terrible_Life]

This seems to be true because the more a person suffers the more hopeless and trapped he will feel. Also I heard suffering will make people at some point fearless when it comes to death and in general the pain tolerance will be higher.

 

[Hollowman]

Completely agree. My SI is gone I'm just trying to outlast my mom.

 

[2minutes2ctb]

Valid points above. I guess you're right, it all depends at the end (person, method, …) and of course my opinion on SI is only based on what I've experienced so far. Long story short, I went hiking everyday for 1 month at the beginning of the year, waking up every morning with the thought that today was my last day. Always searching for the perfect spot, timing, and asking myself all sort of questions about the height, the type of ground, possible witnesses, … and every evening getting back to my car, driving home, frustrated because I couldn't just jump. I tried the swb method in a pool afterwards, without any success. Lower SI for me in that case as I was trying to forget why I was actually holding my breath underwater. My suicidal tendencies slowly disappeared as my situation improved a bit in the meantime, but only to realize it was just a temporary fix. And a few months later, here I am, considering to ctb again.

 

[itsgone2]

The human lifespan is very long, I feel as though many truly underestimate how long 60+ years really is.

This is just so horrifyingly true.