Reasons People Commit Suicide
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My brother, sister, and people who I thought were my friends, and people at school constantly bully me every day. I suffer from extreme depression. I think about committing suicide all the time. There are times when 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 in this cruel world anymore. I feel like I'm not loved. I get bullied by my own siblings every day. 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 talked to my school counselor, and she just said to do something I love to do. I don't do anything I love to do because I don't have anything I love to do.
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.
I have homework I can barely finish, with pressure that I am currently one of the best students. One failure 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 am 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 newborn babies! 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, like bodybuilding. I am lost!
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
My neck is too skinny. That's why I am always afraid something bad could happen to my neck, like a carotid artery dissection, which would hurt like hell.
I feel like nobody 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? Maybe she was right when she said that no one will ever want me. I'm tired of this life. I don't want to be alone anymore! I go to work, then go to my room, watch TV, and go to sleep. I hate going to that house! I hate just sitting there watching TV. 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 it'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 about 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, travel alone, drive alone, sleep alone. The list goes on! I know I can be a good husband, but I never get the chance to prove myself. I hate this life! I want a life, not just an existence. I don't know how to meet people. I'm 40 years old and scared that I'll die alone and it won't matter. I want a family. I want someone to come home to. I wasn't good at too many things, but I was good at being a husband. But no one cares about that. I need help. I don't know how much longer I can go on. Someone, please help!
This is a reason people commit suicide: mental disorders. Disorders such as bipolar disorder are very serious when it comes to thinking about suicide. Sometimes, people think about nothing else except 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)!
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 and argue for what you think is right, but instead, you get 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, affecting you even more negatively than before. Later, when they find out about it, they get mad at you for not telling them. There's nothing you can do to not feel like a piece of crap instead of someone with a purpose.
Technically, nobody understands anyone, but it does help to try, I think.
I didn't make it into this special program, and many of my parents' friends did, so they feel that something is wrong with me and put so much pressure on me. I feel that maybe if I kill myself, it would make my life easier and make them happy with me for once.
The only thing I live for is the 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. As much as I love them, I kinda hate them for it. They are super Christian (I'm not religious, but they don't know that), and I just feel so controlled.
I 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. My parents were getting divorced, and I was in search and rescue, so I really needed the employee discount.
The homosexual owner started touching me and inviting me on buying trips, which my parents approved. I started using drugs to cope with the trauma. The abuse continued for years. I kept rescuing others but thought I could just forget about the abuse. For 20 years, I kept smelling his breath throughout the day, sometimes hundreds of times. I finally told an ex-girlfriend, and the smelling of his breath stopped. Years later, I stopped using drugs and drinking, which is great, but now I'm 48 and a bit of an outcast.
If you're being abused sexually or in any way, really, do something about it, even if it's just telling someone, so the healing can begin. Life can be great. I've seen it. Don't miss it!
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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 tell my mom about what happened, she is a caring, smart, and beautiful human being who's always been there for me through thick and thin.
I also started crying, telling my mom that I want to die and that the world will be a lot better without me. But my mom told me to "Be strong!" Eventually, I took my mom's advice and outgrew my problems.
School SUCKS! So much pressure, work, expectations, worries, fears, social orders... School is what makes or breaks you, I think.
Every day I think I am ugly. Every day I go through the same thing, and every day I wish I had never come into this family. This family has made fun of me every day. They have made fun of what I wear, what I eat, and especially me. I wish I was still dead to 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 anyone else happy.
Definitely can make you suicidal. Don't kid yourself on this. It's pure evil.
I'm white, and I face racism, like a lot.
He doesn't love me anymore. I don't know how to make it right again. I really need to show him that I really love 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.
This is a really big reason I want to commit suicide.
They don't. They never did, and they never will.
I mostly hate myself because I think I'm being petty and a burden 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.
Yes, I don't like my face, my horrible eyebrows, and tiny ass eyes. My gosh.
My biggest secret was about what band I loved a lot. But I got over it, and now I hate the band a lot 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.
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're gay," when I said I was tired of being romantically lonely. I hate this situation, and it has been a suicide trigger for me before. Now we fight, and she always humiliates me about my loneliness. 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 what humiliation has done to me.
Most people who think that this 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. It's 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.
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. This might have something to do with it being based on a thought process and not a feeling.
Hmmm... Yeah... I'm going to end my life in about 3 days. I've been a nihilist for about 4 years, and now I realize life is so overrated. I hope someday everyone gets to know the truth and stops struggling to survive.
There are a lot of things you can't have without friends. The worst 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.
Finances - the world runs only on money. Without it, you constantly lose. People say to 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's no end to the misery in sight.
When you take your free time to collect recyclable cans and bottles to make extra money, and the people at the recycling place rip you off - (you get a ticket for $17.25, but the cashier gives you $14.75, and when you photograph the ticket and prove they ripped you off, they respond, You altered the photo! Leave my store now!) - it's just maddening. This world's evil is money. It feeds you, shelters you, and clothes you. Without it, you die.
I am below poverty level and over 40 years old at this point. I will probably die in a shelter. Yes, I work a full-time job (40 hours a week), a second job (18 hours a week), and still try to make extra money. But all of that at minimum wage isn't enough to get a place to live.
So I can see why suicide seems like a solid answer to end the misery.
In a controlling, abusive relationship, it is easy for the abuser to manipulate the victim and make them feel like there is no way out.
When people feel that there is no way out, committing suicide may seem like the only escape, but it comes at the cost of their life.