As a suicide survivor, here's a very important message you should read if you feel the same way and/or are thinking of attempting yourself. · 7:23am Dec 13th, 2020
When you're at your lowest point and you think all is pointless and you decide that you want to opt out, you tell yourself this time is the time that you're going to pull the trigger for real, end it all. But you don't.
You think that because when you don't pull the trigger after convincing yourself you would makes you a coward? It doesn't. It shows that you're still in control.
Wanting to live isn't cowardly. Depression lies to you. Don't believe a word it says. Staying in this world, no matter how hard it gets, will mean a lot to your friends and family. Choosing to leave hurts everyone else. Maybe they'll attempt themselves if you did it yourself.
As a suicide survivor myself, I'm going to tell you this: Don't. You. Fucking. Dare!!! 
Talk to somebody. You're not a burden. You're not useless. You're not a coward. You're not irrelevant. You're not anything in the form of worthless. Talk. Just talk. Don't do anything you know you'll regret and know will very tragically have lasting effects.
YOU are still in control of your actions. Depression is not your boss. It only will ever be if you submit to it. As I said above: Don't you dare listen.
Bravo, Ribe. Super happy to hear you’re a survivor. I’ve spent most my life fighting those insidiously incessant thoughts, and it’s good to see others reinforcing you not to put up with your depressed mind’s shit.
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Very narrowly surviving dying hurts. In my case, I'm amazed and surprised I didn't die. When I passed out, if I never woke up, that would have been it for me. Went two or three days to get back to normal. I lost a lot of my sense to touch. Hardly ate or drank anything. Constantly worried my senses wouldn't ever come back. My skin had literally no colour, and I'm pale in general, so let that speak volumes.
Yes, Aurora, don't put up with the shit your hurt mind shovels to you. If you listen, if you give in, when your guard and resistance is lowered, then you may not see another day. It's truly a fucking horrid fight to live with it. Don't listen to it, man. Lucky some friends exist who know what it's like and are always open to listen.
Don't listen, Aurora.
You're assuming that every suicide must be related to depression, and that's not always the case. And I say that as someone who is having those thoughts, and who cut his own father from the rope, so... with some experience as well
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Nothing is ever as simple as it seems.
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Not that it 'must be'. It generally is the main cause. People who are depressed are far more likely to commit suicide. I don't see anyone in perfect or a healthy mindset having any negative thoughts that can lead them on to suicide. That's hardly ever the case. Nothing about this is simple. Believe me, it isn't.
You never know what a person is going through. It's always the ones who seem or act the happiest who are the most depressed. Unless you've been there yourself, you wouldn't know. And for those people who pretend and talk out of their ass by saying they know what it feels like when they haven't been there, they especially piss me off.
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That's precisely what I was referring to
. Our society has this mindset that if someone even considers suicide for real, then he/she 'must be' sick in some way. This is used to validate involuntary commitment and all the shit they put a person thought in the loony bin to 'help him.'
Anyway, I already discussed in detail with other people what I think about it. If you're interested, give that a read:
https://www.fimfiction.net/group/200615/anti-depression-ponies/thread/399723/does-it-sound-weird-to-actively-plan-your-own-death#comment/6840856
Suffice it to say, I find that assumption very, very wrong, scary and counterproductive for people who would like to seek help. That's why if I ever decide to go, I'll make sure to do it right the first time - not gonna let the bastards strip me of all my rights and lock me up in a loony bin to 'help me.'