Reasons People Commit Suicide
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My brother, sister, and these people who I thought were my friends, and people at school constantly bullies me everyday. I suffer from extreme depression. I think about committing suicide all the time. There's times where I actually pick up a knife and put it to my wrist. I have a note I wrote that says "I can't stand living on the cruel world anymore. I feel like I'm not loved. I get bullied by my own siblings everyday. Hope your lives will be better without me." I told my mom about this once. Another time I told her about this she just told me I'm trying to get attention. I talk to my school counselor she just says do something you love to do. I don't do anything I love to do because I don't have anything I love to do.
Bullies are retards. What would make a person insult, push around, and hurt someone to the point of suicide? If I ever find out what it is that makes them do it, I am going to personally throttle the concept of it to death. It has already almost taken my life, four, maybe five times, along with millions of other peoples'.If someone, ANYONE, can find out what the freak it is that causes bullies to bully, please tell me what it is and where I can teach it a lesson. Thank you.
Bullying is #1 cause of teen suicides. Bullies feel big when they make others feel like crap, but what they fail to realize is that bullying doesn't make you big or cool. In fact, it makes you a loser. When you have to make others feel bad just for yourself to look and feel good, you actually just make yourself look worse, because you're showing people that you're a lowlife.
People who bully others to death should be treated like murderers, because you essentially tortured them to death, and anyone with a half decent mind would never treat another human that way. If you have problems, don't take it out on someone else, get some help.
I just lost one of my best friends to suicide, at age 16. She was a talented artist, actress, and musician. (How many people do you know who can play the sitar? ) She was one of the most vibrant people I've ever known--every time we talked, she was doing something new. I thought she enjoyed life more than almost anybody else I know. She never gave an inkling that anything was wrong.
You never know the torments someone is going through in their mind. The person who seems to have it all together on the outside may be dying on the inside. Rest in peace, my friend. I only wish we'd had a little longer.
Depression feels like an ocean, constantly pulling you under the riptide. You struggle to break free from the waves, and while you try to get air into your lungs it drowns you. Water enters your lungs and it suffocates you until you give up. People who commit suicide due to depression were pulled beneath the surface and dragged to the ocean floor, where all the air left their lungs and they were forced by the current to give up.
Having depression can mean that you're constantly anxious, and breathing can even hurt. You barely feel happiness, and you no longer feel like you belong. Life starts feeling like an everyday struggle and you only live for the sake of other people. Constant pain that can only be medicated through drugs. It feels like your life was never meant to be.
This is the main reason I want to die. I have a great life, but I'm still not happy. I know a lot of people care about me, yet I feel like only a few people would even notice I was gone. I feel guilty and selfish for wanting to die when I should be happy. Luckily I'm too scared of death to kill myself.
I have homework I can barely finish, with pressure that I am currently one of the best students. One fail or mistake and I'm a laughingstock. I also have ADHD, and getting teased at school doesn't really help my depression or cure my anxiety. Then there is my crush who likes my friend, all three of them. I also have to do extra work so I can be prepared for the next grade.
I get no TV or video game time, and not allowed to play or do anything else until I finish all of my work, which I usually finish at 10 pm.
I'm alone all my former friends have wives and new born babies! While I haven't had a date in 8 years! Every job I get I end up getting fired from, I have no one to share my feelings with to help lift me up! I sit alone day in and day out without any sort of interaction with people! I try to do things that make me happy but it's never enough ie. bodybuilding! I am lost!
It's sad how children become stressed over the things their parents can't get for them. They are young, probably teen, and they want to fit in. That stage of their lives is when they make insane decisions, and they'll hurt themselves permanently for a pair of shoes.
I heard a saying "if you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen". What if the kitchen is life and the heat is its toil? Suicide would be the only way to "get out of the kitchen"
This is. A reason people do commit suicide by mental disorders. Such as bipolar and other thing like that is very serious when it comes to thinking about suicide and nothing else, accept committing suicide so yeah that can happen especially with mental disorders. No offense not trying to be offensive or disrespectful.
When you're mentally disturbed, you don't have much control over the way you think and act. It's the way your brain functions.
Horrible... I feel horrible for the people who have those... One of which is a fictional horror creature (Salad Fingers)!
I want to kill myself because I have schizophrenia.
I feel like no body cares about me. Every friend I have ever had seems to abandon me. I am alone divorced and scared that I will always be this way. I miss my wife the person she was. Why did she have to cheat on me? And nothing happens to her what? Maybe she was right when she said that no one will ever want me. I tired of this life I don't want to be alone anymore! I go to work then go to my room watch T.V. and go to sleep. I hate going to that house! I hate just sitting there watching T.V. I feel my sanity slipping away! Sometimes I wish I wouldn't wake up. The elders tell me that I should go out in service more and that'll cure my loneliness and to take an interest in others. I try to take a personal interest in others and it's never reciprocated. I was always taught that if you do good good will come back to you. Now I'm not so sure on that. I tried to do my best and all it gets me is loneliness. People constantly blow me off. I do everything alone I eat alone work alone work ...more
People sometimes end up lonely because feel like they do not belong or fit in anywhere, they may have different interests or hobbies which are not as popular as others, People who don't fit in means they probably will lack of confidence which leads to lack of socializing which leads to social awkwardness & the longer you keep the outside world at arms reach & don't socialize & mix with people, as years go by the harder it becomes to socialize & mix as people fail to develop social skills. This loneliness often leads to depression & people start to feel isolated, unloved & live there lives practically not noticed by anyone.
My friend was really depressed. She had bad depression, anxiety, anorexia, was bipolar, and me and my cousin Isabella were her only friends. She also cut. At school, everyone bullied her. They called her 'ugly, fat, bitch, lonely, no life' and told her to kill herself. On social media, me and Isabella are her only followers. Other people go on her account to tell her to die. One day, she said to me and Isabella, "Goodbye. Thank you so much. I love you." We got scared and told my mom. It was too late. 2 hours later, her mom called, crying, and said "Alexa killed herself. She jumped off a bridge."
RIP Alexa. I love you too. Goodbye best friend.
I'm 36 had heaps of broken relationships done six years jail gone through heaps of violence have just lost my car business have no money with post traumatic stress disorder and am alone find it hard to make friends... Good reason
you feel like you literally have no hope, that nobody understands but even if they do they won't think about it deeply, you go up against anything that seems unfair because they told you to stand up for yourself sand argue for what you think is right, but instead gets punished. You tell someone about what you've been going through, and they react the same way as the last time, over and over again, only effecting you even more negative than before. Later when they find out about it they get mad at you for not telling them and there's nothing you can do to not feel like a piece of crap instead of someone with a purpose.
You get old, you have no job, family has decided you are the reasons they are mucked up... we could blame all generation before us I suppose. You love so hard and no one feels the same back. Consumed in pity... no hope whatsoever. Only a dog has kept me alive
My brother is going through this right now. I fear he's lost literally ALL hope in his life. He runs the T_StreakMLP YT channel, but YT is not only why he's lost hope, he has family issues and can't find work in the motor trade, he went to college to study it due to his interest in cars. He has High Functioning Autism, ADHD, Anxiety, and Aggression problems, and feels no one cares about his issues.
While you live there is Always a Chance things can get better, no matter how bleak and hopeless they seem; if you end it there is No Chance. Please hang in there; give it all the time it takes...
I feel like no one understands my emotions. I always think of all the bad things that could happen, all the mistakes I could make and all the problems I could cause... even when people tell me that "everyone makes mistakes" I still think 'but not as many as me' I can't even control my nerves: feeling sick, tired, shaking and even feeling dizzy or weak. I doubt I'll ever overcome these feelings. The only thing preventing me from killing myself is my dad. - Eleanor
When teens feel a lot of pressure it can just cause them to want their lives to end
I didn't make it in to this special program and many of my parents friends did so they feel that something is wrong with me and put so much pressure that I feel that maybe if I kill myself that would make my life easier and them happy for once with me. The only thing I live for is hope that when I'm older I'll find someone who will love me and I can have a family of my own.
My parents aren't abusive but they are overprotective and as much as I love them I kinda hate them for I t.. t hey are super Christian (I'm not religious but they don't know that) and I just feel so controlled
My parents put so much pressure on me it kills me slowly. I want to die. they madr me break up with my boyfriend, don't let me see my friends for no reason, keep telling me tjat they wish I died in the vomb of my mom, that they would rather have a disabled child than having me. please HELP
I am a victim of child abuse. Please help.
Technically, nobody understands anyone but it does help to try, I think.
Another reason I want to
Took a job at a new and used sporting goods store in Portland, OR at the age of 14. I knew sporting goods very well, but my family could only afford second hand. Parents were getting divorced and I was in search and rescue so really needed the employee discount. The homosexual owner started touching me and inviting me on buying trios which my parents approved. I started using drugs to cope with the trauma. The abuse continued for years and I kept rescuing others, but thought I could just forget about the abuse. 20 years of smelling his breath throughout the day sometimes hundreds of times and I finally told an ex girlfriend; the smelling of his breath stopped and years later I stopped using drugs and drinking which is great, but I'm now 48 and a bit of an outcast...so... If you're being abused sexually or in any way really...do something about it if only telling someone so the healing can begin...life can be great...I've seen it...don't miss it!
It's a heart breaking situation when a person is sexual abused. It destroys them mental and physically. Someone people don't know how to reach out and tell someone because they're afraid of the judgement they will face.
This is quite possibly one of the worst things that can happen to a person.
This is horrible. No more words needed
Every day I think I am.. every day I go through the same thing, and every day I wish I had never came it this family...this family had mad fun of me every day...the had made fun of what I were, what I eat and especially me...I wish I was still dead till this day...if this is wrong I don't want to be RIGHT!
They are beautiful in God's eyes and they don't have to make any one else happy.
I'm reading this because my only child committed suicide. Add to that the fact that I was put in a wheelchair and denied use of my left arm in 2011 by a stroke. I'm living for other people, I can't wait to leave this world. I welcome death.
Many times is the thought I had after losing my daughter!
This is akin to hopelessness and is very real.
I HATE School! My teachers would scream at me, people would bully me a lot and I easily get lonely! Every time I come Home from School and told my Mum about what had happened, she is a caring, smart and BEAUTIFUL human being that's always been there for me through thick and thin. I also started crying by telling my Mum that I want to die and the World will be a lot better without me. But my Mum told me to "Be Strong! " But eventually I took my Mum's advice and outgrew my problems.
School SUCKS! So much pressure, work, expectations and worries, fears, social orders... school is what makes or breaks you I think.
School is the reason I have depression.
It's literal hell
He doesn't love me anymore, like I don't know how to make it right again, I really need to show him that I really loves him. BUT HE couldn't SEE IT
Break-ups can get nasty. If you get a divorce you could possibly lose almost everything.
Financial disaster after sudden divorce; no friends or family at all
My biggest secret WAS about what band I loved a lot.
But I got over it and now I hate the band a lot now for some reason.
Ironic.
I don't agree with this. Are you turning such a distressing incident into a joke?
I have secrets that if they come out, I will be arrested and put to death.
This is a big one, at least for me. If people knew my secrets I would most likely die.
This is a really big reason I want to commit suicide.
They don't. They never did, and they never will.
Funniest reason man
My sister has always talked to me about her opposite gendered crushes but when I talked about my same-sex attraction, she went "ughh". She said "That's because you geii" when I said I was tired of being romantically lonely. I hate this situation and that has been a suicide trigger for me before. Now we fight and she always humiliates me about my loneliness and when the fight gets physical, she blames me for everything. My father hates me and my mother cries for me because of it. My father will disown me soon. I should die because being an LGBT kid in social services dorms is terrible. I am scared of my future. That's only what humiliation has done.
Teen LGBT people tend to commit suicide more than straight people because it's crazy how closed-minded is our society. They are getting bullied and people make them feel like crap, like they want to change who they are. And with fat people, it's the same thing. That's why there are so many young girls with eating disorders, because the society brainwashes them to be something they are not and they end up killing themselves.
Having people humiliate you can cause such rage and embarrassment that in the heat of the moment, you just want to escape it. It happens quickly and without much thought. That is why humiliation is deadly. To everyone, think before you decide to point out peoples flaws.
Something humiliating is up on the internet, and it's about you, as well as being very popular. Everywhere you go they will talk about that when they see you. goddamit
I mostly hate myself because I think I'm being petty and a burden at the same time whenever I think I have some sort of depression. I don't like thinking that I have depression because my mind ends up feeling embarrassed and guilty for thinking that. It sucks. It's basically like a self sustaining system.
Too many wrong choices
I feel like I'm worthless.
Yes, I don't like my face, my horrible eyebrows and tiny ass eyes, my gosh
Finances- the world runs only on money. Without it you lose constantly. People say find happiness, but when you can't pay for basic necessities...( I don't mean a cellphone or internet- I mean food, and a roof over your head during winter in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.) There is no end of the bull in sight. When you take your free time to collect recyclable cans and bottles to make extra money and the people at the recycle play rip you off, (You get a ticket for 17.25, and the cashier gives you 14.75, and you photograph the ticket and prove they ripped you off, but they respond- 'you altered the photo, you leave my store now! ' - I mean this world's evil is money. It feeds you, shelters you and clothes you. Without it you die. I am below poverty and over 40 years old at this point...I will die in a shelter most likely. (Yes I work a full time job, 40 hours week, a 2nd job at 18 hours a week, and try to make extra money) Because all of that at Minimum wage...don't get you a place to ...more
Most people who think that this is reason is a joke are most likely westerners. In many countries around the world your final exams will make or break your entire life. If you fail your exams, you are a disgrace to your family, and many people not wanting to live with that kind of shame often take their own lives. Not common in countries like America but in countries like Japan and China it isn't unheard of.
I don't know who you are but this is NOT funny. We're talking about a serious issue, which obviously you're too immature to understand. We're discussing the fact that thousands of people every year take their own lives and you are trying to be funny. Well, this is not the place to joke.
This is not an bad reason. People who kill themselves over that feel that they have no purpose anymore and if they already were depressed or have low self esteem. This makes it worse
Whoever wrote this, suicide is no joke. 4 people I know have killed themselves.
Of all the reasons to "give up" this has never brought me close to acting on it, while others have. If anything, the realization that my life is meaningless gives me peace. Might have some to do with this being based on a thought process and not a feeling.
Hmmm...Yea... I'm gonna put my life to an end in about 3 days from now. I've been a nihilist for about 4 years and now I realize life's so overrated... I hope someday everyone gets to know the truth and stop struggling to survive.
Hmm.. I'm not really sure bout this one
See "we have no future"
I'm white and I face racism, like a lot.
There's a lot of things you can't have without friends. The worse thing is when you don't have any friends, try to have some but you don't know why you don't have friends. without friends, you feel lonely. I know it's not a reason to commit suicide, but it sure is sad to have no friends when you want to have some.