Suicidal?
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Suicide?
If you are feeling suicidal now, please stop long enough to read this. It will only take about five minutes. I do not want to talk you out of your bad feelings. I am not a therapist or other mental health professional - only someone who knows what it is like to be in pain.
I don’t know who you are, or why you are reading this page. I only know that for the moment, you’re reading it, and that is good. I can assume that you are here because you are troubled and considering ending your life. If it were possible, I would prefer to be there with you at this moment, to sit with you and talk, face to face and heart to heart. But since that is not possible, we will have to make do with this.
I have known a lot of people who have wanted to kill themselves, so I have some small idea of what you might be feeling. I know that you might not be up to reading a long book, so I am going to keep this short. While we are together here for the next five minutes, I have a couple simple practical things I would like to share with you. I won’t argue with you about whether you should kill yourself. But I assume that if you are thinking about it, you feel pretty bad.
Well, you’re still reading, and that’s very good. I’d like to ask you to stay with me for the rest of this page. I hope it means that you’re at least a tiny bit unsure, somewhere deep inside, about whether or not you really will end your life. Often people feel that, even in the deepest darkness of despair. Being unsure about dying is okay and normal. The fact that you are still alive at this minute means you are still a little bit unsure. It means that even while you want to die, at the same time some part of you still wants to live. So let’s hang on to that, and keep going for a few more minutes.
1.You need to hear that people do get through this — even people who feel as badly as you are feeling now. Statistically, there is a very good chance that you are going to live. I hope that this information gives you some sense of hope.
2.People often turn to suicide because they are seeking relief from pain. Remember that relief is a feeling. And you have to be alive to feel it. You will not feel the relief you so desperately seek, if you are dead.
Life is interesting. It takes you extraordinary places in life. Please, don’t imagine living without it. Read this sad poem about someone regretting doing it.
Torn and helpless
Left to cry
A fragile body
Left to die
Confided within
A silver blade
Cutting away
To make her life fade
Bleeding through
Her pretty clothes
Her life’s a mess
But no one knows
Watch her life
Just fall apart
All because of
A broken heart
Watch her give up
As she takes out her blade
And adds to the cuts
She’s already made
One last cut
Is all that it takes
To erase the past
And erase her mistakes
Once the cut’s made
Her decision’s set
There’s no turning back
No time to regret
As her weak body falls
And her tattered wrists bleed
She wishes her suicide
Doesn’t succeed
For the pain that she’s feeling
From the amount of regret
Surpasses such pain
That she’ll never forget
As she lies dying
She sheds her last tear
For she never really wanted
To end it all here
She committed suicide
Not wanting to end her life
But sometimes that happens
When you’re addicted to the knife
Pain is temporary, suicide is not.
Depression Hotline: 1-630-482-9696
Suicide Hotline: 1-800-784-8433
Eating Disorders Hotline: 1-847-831-3438
Stay strong for me. For yourself, too. Prove to yourself that you can overcome this and you WILL get through this. I hope I helped, and if not, it brings pleasure that I at least attempted to try. Just remember I care and I am here anytime you need me.
