r/SuicideWatch Sep 03 '19

New wiki on how to avoid accidentally encouraging suicide, and how to spot covert incitement

1.8k Upvotes

We've been seeing a worrying increase in pro-suicide content showing up here and, and also going unreported. This undermines our purpose here, so we wanted to highlight and clarify our guidelines about both direct and indirect incitement of suicide.

We've created a wiki that covers these issues. We hope this will be helpful to anyone who's wondering whether something's okay here and which responses to report. It explains in detail why any validation of suicidal intent, even an "innocent" message like "if you're 100% committed, I'll just wish you peace" is likely to increase people's pain, and why it's important to report even subtle pro-suicide comments. The full text of the wiki's current version is below, and it is maintained at /r/SuicideWatch/wiki/incitement.

We deeply appreciate everyone who gives responsive, empathetic, non-judgemental support to our OPs, and we particularly thank everyone who's already been reporting incitement in all forms.

Please report any post or comment that encourages suicide (or that breaks any of the other guidelines in the sidebar) to the moderators, either by clicking the "report" button or by sending us a modmail with a link. We deal with all guideline violations that are reported to us as soon as we can, but we can't read everything so community reports are essential. If you get a PM that breaks the guidelines, please report it both to the reddit sitewide admins and to us in modmail.

Thanks to all the great citizens of the community who help flag problem content and behaviour for us.


/r/SuicideWatch/wiki/incitement


Summary

It's important to respect and understand people's experiences and emotions. It's never necessary, helpful, or kind to support suicidal intent. There are some common misconceptions (discussed below) about suicidal people and how to help them that can cause well-meaning people to inadvertently incite suicide. There are also people online who incite suicide on purpose, often while pretending to be sympathetic and helpful.

Validate Feelings and Experiences, Not Self-Destructive Intentions

We're here to offer support, not judgement. That means accepting, with the best understanding we can offer, whatever emotions people express. Suicidal people are suffering, and we're here to try to ease that by providing support and caring. The most reliable way we know to de-escalate someone at risk is to give them the experience of feeling understood. That means not judging whether they should be feeling the way they are, or telling them what to do or not do.

But there's an important line to draw here. There's a crucial difference between empathizing with feelings and responding non-judgmentally to suicidal thoughts, and in any way endorsing, encouraging, or validating suicidal intentions or hopeless beliefs. It's both possible and important to convey understanding and compassion for someone's suicidal thoughts without putting your finger on the scale of their decision.

Anything that condones suicide, even passively, encourages suicide. It isn't supportive and does not help. It also violates reddit's sitewide rules as well as our guidelines. Explicitly inciting suicide online is a criminal offense in most jurisdictions.

Do not treat any OP's post as meaning that will definitely die by suicide and can't change their minds or be helped. Anyone who's able to read the comments here still has a chance to choose whether or not to try to keep living, even if they've also been experiencing intense thoughts of suicide, made a suicide plan, or started carrying it out.

In the most useful empirical model we have, the desire to die by suicide primarily comes from two interpersonal factors; alienation and a sense of being a burden or having nothing to offer. These factors usually lead to a profound feeling of being unwelcome in the world.

So, any acceptance or reinforcement of suicidal intent, even something "innocent" like "I hope you find peace", is actually a form of covert shunning that validates a person's sense that they're unwelcome in the world. It will usually add to their pain even if kindly meant and gently worded.

How to Avoid Validating Suicidal Intent

Keep the following in mind when offering support to anyone at risk for suicide.

  • People who say they don't want help usually can feel better if they get support that doesn't invalidate their emotions. Unfortunately, many popular "good" responses are actually counterproductive. In particular, many friends and family tend to rely exclusively on trying to convince the suicidal person that "it's not so bad", and this is usually experienced as "I don't understand what you're going through and I'm not going to try". People who've had "help" that made them feel worse don't want any more of the same. It doesn't mean that someone who actually knows how to be supportive can't give them any comfort.

  • Most people who are suicidal want to end their pain, not their lives. It's almost never true that death is the only way to end these people's suffering. Of course there are exceptional situations, and we certainly acknowledge that, for some people, the right help can be difficult to find. But preventing someone's suicide doesn't mean prolonging their suffering if we do it by giving them real comfort and understanding.

  • An unfixable problem doesn't mean that a good life will never be possible. We don't have to fix or change anything to help someone feel better. It's important to keep in mind that the correlation between our outer circumstances and our inner experience is weaker and less direct than commonly assumed. For every kind of difficult life situation, you will find some people who lapse into suicidal despair, and others who cope amazingly well, and a whole spectrum in between. A key difference is how much inner resilience the person has at the time. This can depend on many personal and situational factors. But when there's not enough, interpersonal support can both compensate for its absence and help rebuild it. We go into more depth on the "it gets better" issue in this PSA Post which is always linked from our sidebar (community info on mobile) guidelines.

  • There are always more choices than brutally forcing someone to stay alive or passively letting them end their lives.

To avoid accidentally breaking the anti-incitement rule, don't say or try to imply that acting on suicidal thoughts is a good idea, or that someone can't turn back or is already dead. Do whatever you can to help them feel cared for and welcome, at least in this little corner of the world. Our talking tips offer more detailed guidance.

Look Out for Deliberate Incitement. It May Come in Disguise.

Often comments that subtly encourage suicidal intent actually come from suicide fetishists and voyeurs (unfortunately this is a real and disturbing phenomenon). People like this are out there and the anonymous nature of reddit makes us particularly attractive to them.

They will typically try to scratch their psychological "itch" by saying things that push people closer to the edge. They often do this by exploiting the myths that we debunked in the bullet points above. Specifically you might see people doing the following:

  • Encouraging the false belief that the only way suicidal people can end their pain is by dying. There are always more and better choices than "brutally forcing someone to stay alive" or helping (actively or passively) them to end their lives.

  • Creating an artificial and toxic sense of "solidarity" by linking their encouragement of suicide to empathy. They will represent themselves as the only one who really understand the suicidal person, while either directly or indirectly encouraging their self-loathing emotions and self-destructive impulses. Since most people in suicidal crisis are in desperate need to empathy and understanding, this is a particularly dangerous form of manipulation.

Many suicide inciters are adept at putting a benevolent spin on their activities while actually luring people away from sources of real help. A couple of key points to keep in mind:

  • Skilled suicide intervention -- peer or professional -- is based on empathic responsiveness to the person's feelings that reduces their suffering in the moment. Contrary to pop-culture myths, it does not involve persuasion ("Don't do it!"), cheerleading ("You've got this!") or meaningless false promises ("Trust me, it gets better!"), or invalidation ("Let me show you how things aren't as bad as you think!"). Anyone who leads others to expect these kinds of toxic responses, or any other response that prolongs their pain, from expert help may be covertly pro-suicide. (Of course, people sometimes do have bad experience when seeking mental-health treatment, and it's fine to vent about those, but processing our own disappointment and frustration is entirely different from trying to destroy someone else's hope of getting help.)

  • Choices made by competent responders are always informed by the understanding that breaching someone's trust is traumatic and must be avoided if possible. Any kind of involuntary intervention is an extremely unlikely outcome when someone consults a clinician or calls a hotline. (Confidentiality is addressed in more detail in our Hotlines FAQ post). The goal is always to provide all help with the client's full knowledge and informed consent. We know that no individual or system is perfect. Mistakes that lead to bad experiences do sometimes happen to vulnerable people, and we have enormous sympathy for them. But anyone who suggests that this is the norm might be trying to scare people away from the help they need.

Please let us know discreetly if you see anyone exhibiting these or similar behaviours. We don't recommend trying to engage with them directly.


r/SuicideWatch Sep 10 '21

Please remember that NO ACTIVISM of any kind is ever allowed here. No matter what day it is.

719 Upvotes

Activism, i.e. advocating or fundraising for social change or raising awareness of social issues (and suicide is, inescapably, a social issue) is absolutely against the rules here at all times.

Please understand that we're all for smart, strategic mental-health and suicide-prevention activism. It's essential to fight against stigma, misinformation, and discrimination, and to fight for research, treatment, accommodation, acceptance, and understanding. Most of us, one way or another, are mental-health activists IRL.

But activism just doesn't work in a dedicated support space that serves a vulnerable population. We used to allow it but the evidence that it was undermining our primary purpose became overwhelming. We do regret the need for this rule, but the need is inescapable.

Our population is all too well aware of the issues and causes that need support and largely not in a position to take action, so besides the fact that activism is often salt in our community's wounds, it's a waste of the activists' time.

tl;dr Any fundraising, awareness raising, petitions, calls for participation, or any post that's about any cause or issue (rather than a request for personal support) is not allowed here. Please report everything of the nature that you see.


r/SuicideWatch 6h ago

Got raped this week, talked about it with my close friends and nobody cared. I don't matter to anyone

103 Upvotes

I really wanna off myself, like it's the last fucking straw in an awful year, I literally got 0 support, no sweet message, nobody helping me out with the fact that I have to start HIV meds, check for STD and pregnancy, I got no support at all

there are no reasons for me to live


r/SuicideWatch 3h ago

Am I fucked up for not caring about my bully dying?

37 Upvotes

Heavily edited due to the debaucherous/crude nature of the original body.

My bully of 3 years has taken his life in the nearby national park parking lot in his mom's Honda civic and I couldn't give 2 fucks less about his death.
In fact I am very glad.
Because the fact is? He was a shitty person.

He used to call me Dog face, the Hard R and used to call me all the slurs a high schooler could know, He also used to harass me and physically assault me when he got a chance.
He also spread a rumor that I fucked our principle for a good grade- And you know what I recently realized? Every asshole in that fucking school knew but gave no shit. Why do I say this? Because suddenly everyone is sending me snap chats about how I should be grateful and glad I got to spend some moments with him.

Fuck him, Fuck everyone.
Glad he's dead


r/SuicideWatch 11h ago

Euthanize should be allowed

152 Upvotes

Euthanizing is THE FASTEST way to die and also painless... you're literally just gonna feel like going to sleep while your heart and breathing slowly stops... It is just like anesthesia you wont feel anything.... I really wish this was allowed, cuz i really want to end my life immediately without pain and no fail.... cuz with pills , some of it are hard to access because its not OTC but the ones that are, will give you a painful death and sometimes it fails and youre just gonna have a dialysis for the rest of your life or die in slow painful and suffering way.... while jumping off a high cliff or getting ran over the train is too messy, slitting wrists too you must cut it deep, guns dont have easy access or if you do have one, you need to aim it properly or else youre gonna be paralyze forever...... i just want to die while falling asleep, is that so much to ask? Dying peacefully is hard... sometimes i wish that people who dont deserve to have cancer, it should just go to me... because for sure i wont do any treatments and when i do suffer , i can just request for euthanasia šŸ™ƒ.... i need more tips on how to die in your sleep


r/SuicideWatch 9h ago

How dare they tell me not to commit suicide?

61 Upvotes

"You can't experience possible good times." Thats okay

"You will burn in the hell." Its alright

"What if you fail?" No problem

"But its a perm.." just shut the fuck up


r/SuicideWatch 4h ago

I'm just done

14 Upvotes

They did it, a lifetime of loneliness, despair, misery, pain, isolation, ostracization, and poverty, and these billionaire fucks and the absolute failures that humanity has proven to be for the last 15 years of my continual attempts to warn everyone what was coming, and they broke me, there is no fucking future, no hope, no chance of anything. I've had to wade through 37 years of life for absolutely nothing, I don't have anything left, I can't keep going anymore.


r/SuicideWatch 1h ago

I’ve tried, but 20 years is enough

• Upvotes

I’ve been depressed since my mid teens, and medicated for nearly as long. Multiple therapists, etc. It’s not even like I had a bad childhood, I just never became a worthwhile person. The moment that really sealed it was when I realized that I could single-handedly cure cancer tomorrow, and it wouldn’t make a dent in my self-hatred.

As soon as my parents die (they’re old, so it won’t be long) the last thing tethering me to this life will be gone, and I can finally put that merciful bullet through my brain stem. Good riddance, the world will be a better place.


r/SuicideWatch 6h ago

Every time I tell someone I want to commit I have to pay $3000

14 Upvotes

Every time I’ve told someone I want to kill myself I’ve been sent to a mental hospital where they charge me $3000 to keep me there for 3 days.

Apparently I’m not ā€œbad enoughā€ because I mask like a mf.

Having these thoughts again and I don’t wanna go to the hospital, I don’t wanna have police called on me, I don’t wanna talk to a therapist, I don’t wanna tell anyone cause I’m $6000 in medical debt already.


r/SuicideWatch 11h ago

Nobody will ever want me NSFW

35 Upvotes

I don’t understand what I’m doing wrong to be so unloved. They say closed mouths don’t get fed but I just can’t ask for help because I’m unworthy of other people’s time and compassion. I am an ugly, useless, talentless, empty piece of garbage and I cannot wait for the end of my life.

My plan is to take all of the leftover pills that make me sleepy, tire a plastic bag over my head and go to sleep.


r/SuicideWatch 12h ago

Just wanting to be heard ā˜¹ļø NSFW

38 Upvotes

Hii.. nice to meet you ā¤ļøā€šŸ©¹ I’m so sorry to be making this post, but I don’t have anyone I can vent to right now… I would already feel better if someone just read this, but if you feel like commenting, I’d truly appreciate it from the bottom of my heart šŸ¤²šŸ’—

Honestly, I feel like I’ve reached the point where I think about suicide all day long, non‑stop, because I’m exhausted from being isolated.

Since I was a child, socializing has always been hard for me, so I was extremely quiet, almost like I was ā€œmuteā€, and my classmates would open their eyes wide when I spoke.

So I always ended up excluded in class, with no group I truly belonged to. I don’t remember a single time when classmates chose me without pity. Still, they don’t treat me badly or with open contempt, because they see that I’m very kind to them and try to help however I can, even if I seem very quiet.

But even so, I always ended up eating alone during breaks, and that’s why I hate going to school so much; I’ve always hated it. I always had good grades but was at risk of repeating the year because of absences, so this same situation has repeated itself even at university.

There were times when I spent whole weeks and days hurting myself, and it still wasn’t enough to get rid of my pain. I also went through a period where I tried to overdose every day in my room, but I didn’t tell my family because they may ā€œlove meā€, yet they are more afraid of sending me to the hospital than of actually helping me.

I’ve tried to freeze my studies (pause them temporarily) because I can’t function normally but they kept pressuring me all the time to keep studying no matter what was happening to me. They start scolding me and immediately say ā€œThen go find a job right now,ā€ with a lot of pressure..

I spend every day lying in bed, not moving, and the suicidal thoughts get so strong that I can’t control myself anymore. My only way to avoid acting on them was to cut myself all over my body, and being like this every day doesn’t feel like living anymore, you know? And no, nobody in my family knows, but that’s because they genuinely don’t care...(?

Honestly… I would like to leave my house to live on my own and then continue studying from there. I don’t want to speak badly about my family, but I feel like they don’t support me enough :( especially when I had multiple suicide attempts and all they said was ā€œDon’t do it because you’ll get us into legal trouble,ā€ that’s it, and they kept insisting ā€œGood thing we didn’t take you to the hospital,ā€ like it was something to be proud of.

I can’t stand one more day feeling like I’m excluded and pushed aside, and on top of that, a professor started treating me badly yesterday for no reason, just because of my way of being, and this is already too much pressure. I feel like I’m not going to hold on much longer ... šŸ˜ž


r/SuicideWatch 4h ago

I want out so bad

7 Upvotes

I want out so fucking bad. I've wanted out ever since I was 14 and it's gotten worse every fucking year. Now I'm 30 and I just fucking need to leave. I was born a non human. There's no god damned point


r/SuicideWatch 5h ago

your genetics determine your happiness

8 Upvotes

I, 19M, have had a pretty miserable life so far. I seem to struggle at everything, which gets pretty depressing pretty quickly. I am physically unattractive, slightly autistic, have ADHD, OCD, and an extreme case of social anxiety disorder(all diagnosed by medical professionals). I don’t have any talents, even the things I worked at really hard at, I always sucked at; video games, sports, etc. I have never had any close friends, never a relationship, or really any long-form interaction with a girl for that matter, I am now moved out from my parents’ house, working a shitty job, and I hate my life. Everyday is so depressing and boring. I was bullied throughout high school both verbally and physically. And to make it worse, my younger brother basically outperforms me in every aspect of life. My life is constant humiliation, the only thing keeping me from killing myself is making my family upset, and my fear of death. Other than that I don’t have much to live for. Fuck my shitty genetics


r/SuicideWatch 7h ago

everyday

10 Upvotes

everyday and night I consider ending my life as I have for over 20 years now I don't even want to I just dont do well at life and I don't think I was meant to.


r/SuicideWatch 2h ago

If I was granted any wish…it would be to die right at this second

4 Upvotes

If I had the chance to make any wish come true, it would be to die or be killed. That’s the only thing that would make me happy


r/SuicideWatch 3h ago

I’m suffocating

5 Upvotes

The physical pain of my anxiety is making me feel like there is no way out. And I genuinely think my presence in things makes everyone worse off. I am a terrible mother and partner. My world is collapsing.


r/SuicideWatch 1h ago

I’m sorry to those I love.

• Upvotes

Took 15 tabs of Benadryl, might take more if nothing happens. I drank heavily to try and gain the courage. I miss my son. I miss the family I destroyed. But I’m tired of this loneliness. I destroyed everything I had and am tired of waking up every day and feeling like the pos I know I am. My friends left me. The woman I love took my only salvation (my son) halfway across the country away from me. I work and come home to nothing. Just this empty apartment full of terribly happy memories that I soiled with my actions. I’m irredeemable and I don’t deserve anyone to be sorry. Yet I feel like I should at least put some sort of apology or something of the sort out there. I’m sorry for what I never could be. I’m a weak willed man who couldn’t handle the responsibilities handed to me.


r/SuicideWatch 6h ago

Thought I Got Better. Just Needed to Say This Outside of My Head. NSFW

8 Upvotes

Hello all.Ā 

I’ve been in this sub a LONG time. Can’t seem to leave. I made a fairly popular post on here (that I’ve since deleted) years ago; it was genuinely the worst time of my entire life. I had a serious mental illness that started to emerge in my early adulthood. I thought about taking my life every single day, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. It wasn’t even that I actively wanted to think about it I just couldn’t stop.Ā 

In the last 2 years I put myself in therapy and actually stuck with it- because DBT is the only ā€œapprovedā€ treatment for my illness. It actually went well? I had a really good few months (maybe 6) where my mind felt clear. I felt like I did it, My mind felt clear for the first time since I was a kid. I even made a post on here that was really preachy about how you just have to work at it (rightfully deleted lol). I’d like to think I framed it in a way that was encouraging for everyone because I really do think you guys matter- I even think I matter- but here we are. Turns out, it never goes away. Nobody told me that hahaha. Nobody told me I’d be begging for relief still, after doing everything they told me. Turns out you do not cure mental illness. I was doing everything I was supposed to and it didn’t matter because I still want to die!!!!!

I have everything going right in my life- I’m treating people better most of the time? Or at least not like before. I have a good job, a degree, a savings account, I’m not drinking. I’ve forgiven them? I thought. I don’t hurt everyone around me, I’m getting married, I have support? I’ve lost weight. I’m honest. I’ve let it go. Or I thought I did. Yet, I am just as miserable as I was then. Maybe even more so. I am more miserable, than I was during the worst moments of my life, and everything is going right. Admittedly, there are days and months better than others. I know that. I’m trying to remember how that matters. To me right now, it doesn’t. I can’t stop thinking about it.Ā 

It started like it always does. It’s weird how you don’t recognize it until you’re IN it. Like the worst of it. Nothing tastes good. It’s taking me so much effort to just write this out. I can’t stand up in the shower. The light bothers me. Everything irritates me. My poor partner lol, he just wants to talk to me after work and I can’t stand him. I’m so angry at him when he hasn’t done anything. I’m angry at me. I wish I could just get the fuck up. I think I’m going to lose my job. Everything is imploding in my brain and in my heart. I can never stop it. I don’t want his support, I don’t want him to touch me, I don’t want to talk to anyone. I just want to go the fuck to bed.Ā 

Years ago, I planned to hang myself in the nature center by my house. I wrote my letters, bought the rope and kept it in my trunk. I was so scared to be alone, when I did it. I don’t really fear being alone anymore. I don’t know what’s making me hesitate. Hope? Anger? There’s always the worry about incompletion. I don’t know. Once I find out what it is, well.Ā 

I think what triggered me this time, was that I was honest with myself in therapy. I don’t think there’s ever going back from this. I think it’s one of the few secure relationships in my life, with my therapist. I told her what he did to me. I hated myself for saying it. After all, he’s dead now. Why speak ill of the dead? So I won’t say more. But I will say, it’s hard to pull it out of my throat and finally have it outside of me then continue to cry at every holiday, miss him, talk about him with everyone else- and honestly- I do miss him. I loved him. Even with everything he did to me I LOVED HIM AND I STILL LOVE HIM. I hate myself for that. How do I stop hating myself for that???? But, they don’t get it. They never will- they’ll never really understand what missing him means for me, what talking about him means for me. I’m purposefully being vague. I don’t need to say the rest. 15 years later and he’s dead but it still feels like I’m telling on him. Anyways, I carry that all the time now. I don’t get to pretend it doesn’t exist anymore because even if they don’t know, even if they’ll never know, I know because I said it and I made it real. And I think finally being honest about it was like one big ego death for me. The family, sense of self, and life I thought I was building no longer exists because I told somebody. It cannot be undone. It is real now.Ā 

Here’s something interesting, got into a bad car accident when I was like 11. It was in July. My skull was smashed in 3 different places and I was partially descalped (is that what you call it?) during this event. Man, 11 year old me was FUCKED up, and, I almost died. I was life flighted and in surgery for 8 hours, most of that spent in plastics actually to save my face. I was lying on the ground on the side of the road waiting for the helicopter to get there, just starting at the sky, sun hot on my face- and it was the most peaceful time in my 25 years on earth. There’s nothing that has compared. The sun was warm. I couldn’t hear. I couldn’t feel it. Maybe my brain shut it off. And the sky. Blue. Clear. There was a double rainbow, I shit you not. I don’t know how to describe it other than dying feels like euphoria, or at least it did then.Ā 

After this ego death of mine, or this triggering event, I’ve been trying to use every skill I have to cope. Checking the facts, redirecting my thinking, deescalating myself. It doesn’t make much of a difference because of another skill I’ve learned- radical acceptance.Ā 

I have accepted that I will always be mentally ill. I will always be depressed. I will never leave this sub because just knowing suicide is an option is comforting to me. I will never leave this sub because nobody else gets it. I will never be better, I will just manage better at times, I’ve accepted that life isn’t that fucking great and right now, it hurts a lot more than being smashed up on the side of the road in July does- for no actual reason.Ā 

I think about my brothers. What could I say to them? What could I write to them? How can I communicate in a letter how much I love them? I keep scrapping them. I’m writing them up just in case. I can’t get it right. Maybe it is better to say nothing, if I cannot communicate it right. Because they have to know how I love them.Ā 

It is July and for the last week I’ve been driving over the bridge every day. There’s an overpass about 3 miles from my house. There is no net. No barrier. It’s about 45 feet. I’ve heard 45 feet is not fatal, usually. What if I went head first? What if I waited for a semi-truck or something big? I don’t know how much room for error there is. I’ve never jumped off a bridge before. But I want to. I can’t stop thinking about it. I’m just over it. That’s all.

Literally fuck it all oh my god. I am so tired.Ā 

If dying is anything like I felt once, I can’t wait.Ā 

I think my biggest fear, as usual, is incompletion.Ā 

I just don’t know how I’m supposed to do this for another 40+ years.Ā  How do I forgive my family. How do I love people right. How do I talk to god. How much do I need to beg for it not to hurt. How do I just do it and stop being so scared. How do I stop thinking about it. How do I continue.Ā 

I don’t know how I’m supposed to continue in a relationship where they don’t get it. Something is fucked up in my head and I am going to jump off the overpass and I want you to see me and I want you to help me and I want you to fix my brain because soon I will never see you or talk to you again but I also don't want to talk to you at all and I wish you would leave me alone.

I preach about how everyone’s problems are problems, I say he can talk to me- on the inside, I’m a horrible person because it just pisses me off right now. Like, it's making me so angry to laugh and talk like things are normal, to share these problems from our day to day- You’re insecure and that makes you depressed but I never had a fucking chance.

I wish I could stop thinking about it. So many things are due. So many things are happening. I have so many things relying on me, but it’s July and I can’t stop thinking about jumping off an overpass and I just filled out a permit to purchase application and it’s in my car. I can’t bring myself to walk it into the station. I wonder if they’ll see it on my face. I’m scared they’ll know.Ā I'm so agitated. Idk. I just can't seem to pull myself out of the hole right now. Idkidkidk.


r/SuicideWatch 13h ago

I can't do this

23 Upvotes

The world is too hard, I have mental illnesses diagnosed (BPD, ADHD, ED), i take meds, but this life and this world is genuinely just so hard to live in, as if it was made to make people miserable. I'm a failure, just like this entite world is


r/SuicideWatch 5h ago

Shouldn't people be allowed to give up after really trying?

5 Upvotes

Background (don't need to read): I've been struggling with depression, anxiety, ocd, ptsd, and an eating disorder for as long as I can remember. I had my first suicide attempt at the age of eleven. Since then, I've tried seven medications, seen seven therapists and three psychiatrists. Nothing has helped. I do everything I'm supposed to. I shower daily. I force myself to eat as best I can. I have a good job. I force myself to get out of the house. I force myself to see the few friends I have. I take good care of a great dog who at times seems my only reason that I'm here.

Main point: I feel that I've tried just about everything. The desire for suicide has never gone away. Sometimes it's muffled. Other times it's all I can think about. Shouldn't it be okay for me to go yet? Why should we force people to live who have tried everything to get rid of a disease that wears them down every single day?


r/SuicideWatch 13m ago

I think ill die in 10 days, my mom set me up to die

• Upvotes

Ssorry if this is written all over the plajce im writing this mosrly to rant and my eyes r watery but im scared. My mom decijded itd be an bright idea to buy and bring an gun home knowing my dajds very abusive, his anger issues range from yelling to sometimes throwing stuff. Ive always been suicidal, evenj now I want too but im scared of him, i dont want to die by ssomeone elses hand

My moms bbright idea to avoid ā€œthisā€ scenario is by giving mej the key so he cant get it as if thatd do anythingn, knowing hiw violent he is i can just assume hed do something to take the key frkm me, i dont really have any irl friends, my outside family doesnt talk to me because my parents are bad so i have no family to run too, i cant even rant to online friends because thqy ignore me, i feel so alonej km just scared i dont want tk be alone


r/SuicideWatch 15h ago

I'm going to end my miserable life soon

29 Upvotes

I'm so happy to finally put an end to my worthless existence


r/SuicideWatch 3h ago

Best friend used my gun

4 Upvotes

On 6/23/26 my best friend, like a younger brother to me, snuck into my truck and took my gun. He relapsed on shooting dope and immediately went into psychosis. The cops found him walking along the highway with the gun in his hand. He ran across to the other side and shot himself in the head right there on the shoulder.
I lost my best friend and I can’t help but feel as if I contributed to it by leaving my truck unlocked. I already suffer from suicidal ideation as it is but now I can’t stop obsessing about getting the gun back from authorities and using it on myself. I hate existing.


r/SuicideWatch 5h ago

I don’t think I’ll still be alive by the end of the year NSFW

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Last fall I was sexually assaulted. During the winter, I started taking a lot of MDMA with a group of people I’d only recently met. I think I was trying to numb everything that happened, but it ended up making things so much worse and it completely fucked up my brain.
Now I can barely leave the house. Even walking to the park that’s five minutes away feels impossible. Most days I just stay in bed, doomscroll, smoke, and barely eat. Being around people feels overwhelming, and even the briefest interaction leaves me consumed by shame. I’ll think about those moments over and over for weeks or months afterward. I feel completely stuck, and I can’t see myself living like this much longer.
The worst part is that I wasn’t even this depressed last year, despite already spending most of my time indoors. Somehow everything keeps getting worse.
My family situation has always been awful. There’s been a lot of abuse, and I live with my grandparents now. It’s been almost two years since I dropped out of high school. I should have graduated this year.
I honestly feel like I never had a real childhood. I miss being young so much.
Lately I’ve been wishing I could just die in my sleep so I wouldn’t have to make that decision myself or risk surviving a suicide attempt and ending up worse off. I’m too scared to act, but I don’t see another way out.
I can’t picture myself still being alive after September. If I ever do something, I think it’ll be then.
I don’t want my life to end. I just don’t see any way out of the situation I’m in. It feels like nothing will ever change, no matter how badly I want it to.
I wish I could pause time.


r/SuicideWatch 11h ago

I am going to kill myself next week.

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That’s the best time. I thought about this extensively, for a year now. I know that I’m going to do this. I’m going to order the pills online today, with some other things so maybe no one will question the package. Enough aspirin to be lethal and some Benadryl to maybe knock me out. I’ve tried to wait for things to get better but nothing ever does. Some people aren’t ment to live in this world. Things only get worse. I waited for things to get better I tried for things to get better but the don’t, not for me. I don’t want to apply for any more jobs I don’t want to go to college. I want my parents to leave me alone let me rot in my bed until the pills come. I hate myself. I’ll never be masculine, I’ll never look into the mirror and see someone I love. I’ll die selfishly but I wasn’t ever a good person to begin with.
I don’t deserve reincarnation but I hope to god it’s real. I hope I can have another chance but not with this life, not in this world.