If you've ever been suicidal, what prevented you from doing it?

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never entertained the thought.

Knowing my kids would be without a mother. They were enough to keep me going.

yes....and my best friend saved my life one night by calling the cops on me.

Just as I was about to pull the trigger, an old friend called to say he missed me. I unloaded the shotgun and we talked for hours.

God. family. friends.

I realized that it would change nothing for the better...

then the next day I felt better anyway...

What it would do to my husband, sister, mom, dad, and the rest of my family and friends and how it would affect them for the rest of their lives.

must have been God, for I have considered before. Suicide is never the answer, though. I just realized that I did not have it nearly as bad as some others.

getting around other people. Realize what it is that I feel this way and how I can change it around. Going on the internet and finding sites that deal with suicide. Calling suicide hotlines. And of course going to the hospital and being remanded to a mental health hospital. Anything to not die.

What prevented me from doing it? It's simple, it was the smiles of the people I've made happy. It was the feelings of love that my family showered me as iw as I about to commit it. It was the smile of the only person I have ever loved... and cared about. it was then that I found that I have so much more to accomplish...

In short, I was too young to die...

Too much to do before I'm ready for that! I love myself. I try to be a good person. I think I can make a difference in others lives.
I have yet to finsih all that I want to accomplish in life. Life is sometimes overwhelming but I love it nonetheless. I have children.
I want to watch them grow up.

Delay making the decision. When I ever felt suicidal I would think to myself, okay, I don't have to decide right now. I will think about it in 10 minutes and then gradually extend the time between thinking about it again.

Ofcourse, being on the right medication also gave me the strength to fight these overwhelming feelings - it wasn't easy by any means but I got there.
Good luck.

PS. My doctor once told me that suicide isn't the solution to end all problems, but the problem to end all solutions.

I have Bipolar disorder and have been suicidal several times. The first time was while I was in college. I had a gun to my head at night. I was pulling the trigger when moonlight hit my senior class ring. The reflection of the light was amazing. I realized that if I had done what I was seconds away from, I would never see such beauty again. Sense then I have gotten married and have a child. There are times when the depression is so bad, that it is all that I can do not to kill myself. What stops me most of the time is thinking about the damage I would do to my son psychologically.

Circumstances and the fact that life couldn't possibly get anymore painful and curiosity about where I'd end up if I chose to live.

I cant stand the thought of another woman raising my son, but before him I didn't care if i lived or died.

Yes and I was stopped by my friends who are closer to me then family...

A few things.
1. The thought of what it would do to my family, friends, and (then) boyfriend.

2. Thinking about the future I would miss out on if I succeeded.

3. Where I would end up if I failed (mental institution).

Don't do it. It's really not worth it. Just think things through, and talk to someone. I know that sounds cliche, but really, suicide isn't the answer to anything.

I've tried it 2x. nothing stopped me, someone just came n where i was, seen what was going on and call the cops.i was told by a Dr that i set it up that way--maybe, maybe not??

after something really bad had happen to me .when i was 16 . i was in bad shape after that ,and i took an over dose .as i sit there and waiting it came to me.. when i die what then ?...im one that believes heaven or hell .and i knew if i go on with it i would be in hell.and it really scared me .so i went for help and thank god i didnt wait to long .i know now it was god ,and i am so happy im still around .it would have hurt my family and friends .and we can all get through anything !! and suicide is not the answer .its not the way out. i believe it will bring on alot more pain than ever.not worth it.please think before acting upon it...our lives are far more important than we think ..

i failed an my bestfriend told me she'd kill herself if i did an i didn't want her to do that to her family cuz it would kill them! So i figured it'd prolly do the same to mine. And plus i want to see my nephew grow up and kno who is aunt is

When I was younger it had entered my mind more than acouple of times. But seeing stories on tv about some people that had their limbs ripped off their bodies from explosions, bombs. And some with cancer and them people acomplished so much in their lives afterwards. And me with all of my limbs and healthy and had not acomplished much in my life. It made me realize how lucky I am and that I have more to live for than to die for. So now it never enters my mind to want to die. There are others out there that has it so much worse than myself and me wanting to die is just a selfish thought. If you want find a local retirement home and see about volinteering and make friends with some elderly females and bring a smile to their face and make the time that they have left good days for them. You will feel so much better about your own life and the good you have done for someone. The effort you put into it and you will get so much more out of it. So never want to die. Always want to live. You could make a difference in someone elses life.

my family and friends.....it just wouldn't of been fair.....

this is an amazing question, as i felt this way earlier today. i had just had some wine and i pulled out some prescribed sleeping pills - like about 8 - to take cause i had HAD IT. i was having problems with my boyfriend and i thought i lost my monthly metrocard, which would have been a big problem because i do not have money to spare this month to buy another one.

i put the pills on top the tv, on top the book i was reading. something told me to check inside my bag, and lo and behold was my metro card, which i had put in a place different than usual. with that - though small - some of the pressure was off. i think god was telling me to slow down.

ive felt suicial before but this was the closet id ever come to doing something - scary. when i was really feeling really like this last year, i found this site http://www.metanoia.org/suicide/samaritans.htm to be incredibly helpful. im not one to pick up the phone when im sad. you can email these guys, and they will keep up an ongoing email conversation with you until you feel like youre better. i really let loose and you dont have to use your real name.

one thing ive found with suicide ideation is that the pain is usually so great at that time because you were triggered by something from the past bu the current situation or you are about to make a really great discovery about yourself once youve passed through the pain. my greatest weapon against suicide ideation has been sleeeeeeeppppppppp.

I feel that feeling suicidal is a somewhat universal feeling and thouse who have never ever thought about it are very lucky. Those who have acted on it are more rare. I am what is called a survivor of suicide. That is I am a family member or a person who commited suicide. My father killed himself. I never ever thought that he would be capable of that. It never crossed my mind. I think about him every day more than when he was alive. It hurt me so much. I carry the pain around all the time. I guess I could tell you a reason not to would be is that you will hurt people that you do not even know you will. It is like dropping a huge huge bolder in a tiny pond. I starts huge ripples and disrupts everything violently. No one will ever be the same. People who are living will be so hurt. I am hurt, his only sister is so hurt, my mother though divorced from him was so hurt and so are his close friends because they wish he had reached out to them for help. It has been 10 years yet we all still hurt. Really bad. Some of the sting has left, but we still hurt. People treat us a lepers we cannot tell some people or they do not want to be around us. It is like carrrying a ball and chain. So I would say hurting people leaving people would be a good think to think about for preventing. If this is for a project. If you need something for yourself as a person who hurts please add another question.

First time it didn't work. Next time I felt like it (when I just got out of the hospital) i started drinking and I pretty much stayed drunk for the next 6 months. Then I got pregnant so now my daughter keeps me alive.
I recomend you find someone or something you love so much you can't leave it.

The fact that the way I'd leave the world wouldn't be a courageous leap but cowardly... that everyone would wonder if it was THEIR fault and that I was going to be someone who gave up. I was like "What the hell are you thinking, Liv?" and it was over.

my family my dog

Before six years, when my 4-month baby was in the death bed and bleeding the whole day and i was helpless in spite of being in 'the hospital of ultimate solution' in our state and was also economically oozed out because of long period of hospitalisation, i felt like committing suicide. Mine was a cross-section and i was too unfortunate to feed the baby as it had a mask for breathing.
But when i saw a girl brought to the next bed, who was given poison by her mother after poisoning herself and her elder daughter, struggling for her life alone-- as they both died before being brought to the hospital--i thought of my husband who may need to see me as well as my son dying. Then i realised that if each and everyone starts committing suicide for their agonies, it may trigger somebody to imitate the same thing.

Last year two of my cousins committed suicide within a month. One's action initiated the other's. But the latter was the mother of two babies(2 & 3 yrs old) ; none mourned for her death, rather lamented only for the motherless kids.According to me, whoever commits suicide can be true selfish ones.

Afraid that if there is a God I would go to Hell for killing myself....

"hello"first i need to say that if there is anybody out there with these feelings "please" seek out help a.s.a.p.....first of all the person feel anxiety then fear & lonlyness also "helplessness..... then when bouncing emotions start to occure the contemplationg thought of hurting self or ending the pain felt ..... the fear of attempting this act.. is overwelming one needs to find the stregnth to seek guidence from someone they can trust or depend on or seek counceling/ evaluated.......thanks

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