As part of National Suicide Awareness Week, suicide survivors were asked what they wished others understood about their experiences with suicide and suicidal ideation.
For those of us who have not contemplated suicide ourselves it can be incredibly difficult to understand the mindset of someone who has. Thus, the hope of this article is to shed light on individuals' experiences with #suicide to help eradicate judgment and stigma of suicide, and learn instead how we can help our loved ones who have been through or are going through these troubling times.
“I don’t really want to die. I just want to kill the way I feel, shut up the incessant chatter in my brain, have a break from feeling like the worst most unworthy and unlovable creature on earth. It is not selfish nor cowardly. It is not to hurt you. It is pure unadulterated desperation.”
“Attempting suicide is not weakness. It can be a cry for help, which takes much strength to ask for when your mind does not want you to. It is a lack of understanding within yourself and from others. It is confusion when you constantly feel like a failure. It is a permanent solution to a temporary feeling that doesn’t feel temporary at all. It is so much more than a mere escape from suffering, and it is sometimes the only conclusion our brains with illnesses can make for ourselves when we don’t know what else to do.”
“I wish my friends and family could understand that it’s not their fault. It wasn’t that I didn’t know they loved me; it was because I was buried so deep. It was too dark for me to see or feel their love. It’s a totally different reality. I just wanted all my struggles and their feelings of helplessness to end. I didn’t want to leave them. I just didn’t have it in me to keep fighting my monsters.”
For the full article, click here: https://themighty.com/2016/09/what-its-like-to-try-to-kill-yourself/
For those of us who have not contemplated suicide ourselves it can be incredibly difficult to understand the mindset of someone who has. Thus, the hope of this article is to shed light on individuals' experiences with #suicide to help eradicate judgment and stigma of suicide, and learn instead how we can help our loved ones who have been through or are going through these troubling times.
“I don’t really want to die. I just want to kill the way I feel, shut up the incessant chatter in my brain, have a break from feeling like the worst most unworthy and unlovable creature on earth. It is not selfish nor cowardly. It is not to hurt you. It is pure unadulterated desperation.”
“Attempting suicide is not weakness. It can be a cry for help, which takes much strength to ask for when your mind does not want you to. It is a lack of understanding within yourself and from others. It is confusion when you constantly feel like a failure. It is a permanent solution to a temporary feeling that doesn’t feel temporary at all. It is so much more than a mere escape from suffering, and it is sometimes the only conclusion our brains with illnesses can make for ourselves when we don’t know what else to do.”
“I wish my friends and family could understand that it’s not their fault. It wasn’t that I didn’t know they loved me; it was because I was buried so deep. It was too dark for me to see or feel their love. It’s a totally different reality. I just wanted all my struggles and their feelings of helplessness to end. I didn’t want to leave them. I just didn’t have it in me to keep fighting my monsters.”
For the full article, click here: https://themighty.com/2016/09/what-its-like-to-try-to-kill-yourself/
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