Have you told anyone you're suicidal?

[Samuel]

Have you told anyone you're suicidal? I tell my mom all the time. She's used to it by now.

 

[DepressionsAHo]

Have you told anyone you're suicidal? I tell my mom all the time. She's used to it by now.

My best friend knows I have been
She doesn't know I am currently
My sister knows I've been drinking a lot and I've told her it's cause I wanna feel something but I haven't explicitly told her why and I don't think she knows I'm planning on my death

 

[Mybattle]

Yes I have, but people always say it will be ok. You will get out of it, go to therapy, take meds. There are solutions...

People who have not walked this path cannot understand. But maybe this is normal you cannot ask a healthy person to understand, 6 months ago I was still functioning and if someone told me I would do the same, if someone in the past before my problems told me I would try to talk them out of it too and give them hope and comfort. This mindstate is not the norm...

What else can you expect them to do...

But I only tell people I really trust or cannot do anything to stop me.

 

[Anima]

My therapist, yeah.

 

[littlepillbox]

a good number of my friends have felt similarly, but i don't think they've ever gotten to the point i'm at. i think the difference is that they don't hate themselves as much as i do. they just post memes about it and occasionally reference it as being in the past.

 

[KiraLittleOwl]

I told my psychiatrist, she is a good person but what can she do.
Suggested me to go to impatient therapy and to apply for disability.

My SO knows I don't want to live anymore but she's also has mental illness and suicide attempts. Can't help me.

 

[Tomoe]

Nope, not a soul

 

[Gray Wounds]

One of the things I could never do is to tell anyone in the pack that I am suicidal. You're brave enough to.

My best friend knows, my guidance counselor know, a physician knows that I am suicidal but they do not know why and I told them aside from the latter. It didn't end well with my best friend, she's too overprotective but can be absolutely uncaring at times (which I really like but sadly, this effect of hers is too seldom for me to appreciate).

 

[Funkbunny]

Yes, but I've stopped. Can't cope with all the bullshit responses.

 

[Hennessy]

Have you told anyone you're suicidal? I tell my mom all the time. She's used to it by now.

You shouldn't! When you are dead they will blame themselves! You're about to ruin other peoples lifes and you don't have the right to do that!

 

[Lara Francis]

Have you told anyone you're suicidal? I tell my mom all the time. She's used to it by now.

Yes , one too many.

 

[kwalah]

No, I don't think it would change anything and isn't worth worrying my loved ones over something they couldn't control if they tried.

 

[DrownedOctopus]

The only person in my life that knows is my (almost) husband. We both are suicidal. I don't remember how the conversation came about to begin with, but we openly discuss it with each other all the time now.
It just seemed natural to open up with him and be honest. Other than that, no one knows.

 

[letmeseethedeath]

a good number of my friends have felt similarly, but i don't think they've ever gotten to the point i'm at. i think the difference is that they don't hate themselves as much as i do. they just post memes about it and occasionally reference it as being in the past.

same. also two of my friends know it and they feel the same way, but now they are good telling me "life is beautiful"

 

[Sha70]

I am 49 and this has been going off and on my whole life. I have not told a soul. I bet a few people will care and many will be shocked.

 

[Nihil]

Once told my father, which he said I was just "being too emotional, overly dramatic, and quite frankly, selfish." That hurt big time. Even though I'm getting treated for my depression, no way in heck am I EVER mentioning anything remotely related to suicide to the psychiatrist, or to anyone else I know. Involuntary committment scares me, and I don't want to lose my firearm rights.

 

[GeorgeEastman]

Yeah, but nobody believes it.

I don't either right now, but there will be a time soon enough when I will. That's how it works.

 

[yami9292]

Yep but only two online friends who don't actually know me and I've only been talking to them for the last two months haha but no one irl and never will.

 

[justabouttobedone]

Everyone in my family, my ex-psychiatrist and therapist know it. They all try or tried to help me somehow, and I am trying to recover for now.

 

[LongSeason]

Have you told anyone you're suicidal? I tell my mom all the time. She's used to it by now.

Last year I told my best friend/ex about it and she tried to help me, it's been only one year yet it feels like decades.
So much has happened and I'm pretty sure that now she hates me and I've lost my closest friend.
She was always there for me and still I managed to fuck everything up, this time might be for good.
It may sound silly but I really wish I killed myself before.

 

[Amber1974]

Have you told anyone you're suicidal? I tell my mom all the time. She's used to it by now.

Fuck no not going to psych ward are you nuts

 

[GreyMagic]

Mention it in general to my friend all the time subtly.

Parents have no idea.

 

[asdasan]

Yes and no. I haven't mentioned just how serious about it I have become. Generally, people know what a stressful life I've had and probably suspected me of "end thoughts" at some point.

However the latest events have tipped me over the edge, so to speak.

 

[futur]

Last year I told my best friend/ex about it and she tried to help me, it's been only one year yet it feels like decades.
So much has happened and I'm pretty sure that now she hates me and I've lost my closest friend.
She was always there for me and still I managed to fuck everything up, this time might be for good.
It may sound silly but I really wish I killed myself before.

same here. I shouldn't tell my closest friend about it almost three years ago. It ruined everything. I was (half)forced to undergo inpatient care and lost my reputation of "weird but still good" and became officially "dysfunctional prick". Gradully i lost her and two my other friends. So now, if could use a time machine, i would never tell them about it.

And i would advise anyone to do this. First your friends may really try to help you, than they will become more an more irritated. And since your person will be associated with irritation, they will simply leave you, since noone wants to be a babysitter. It is some kind of instinct to try to share the inner pain, even not directly, subtile. But it can work probably a few times and then you may become resistant to it.

 

[Chlo]

My ex, which makes me cringe.

 

[YukiFox]

I don't. I don`t want to be judged or put on psychiatric ward observation.

 

[Stepda]

The other way around, my brother told me he's been suicidal but in the same sentence said he wasn't planning anything. To say it was a bolt out the blue is an understatement.

My father in law also always makes 'Im going to kill myself' comments. But we had a heart to heart and we are close. And he is ok.

My brother though I still am a bit worried about. I told him I love him and will do anything I can to help him. But it's not been spoke about again. But I do notice negative thinking amongst all his hilarity. i never noticed that before we had that chat.

Im really unsure what to do. But I do feel he is ok. But I could of course be totally wrong. So the long and short of it is I'm doing nothing. But we are in regular touch. He comes here every weekend and we text throughout the week. But we just have a laugh....

It's been a bit of a mind fuck hearing my bro has contemplated suicide. Just because I dont understand it so don't know what to do or say. And I would never break his confidence by speaking about it to other family members. So kinda just trying to deal with it myself. But it helps me a wee bit being here to try and understand even if only a little bit.

 

[Cold]

I have told my parents, my counselor, and a friend. And also, indirectly, about 5000 people on this forum.

 

[dmoroden]

Yeah ive talked to my friends and therapist... but now i feel ashamed to even mention it... cause its always the same and ive heard a lot of "the one who wants to ctb just does it, and not keep just saying it" so... i know that i havent done it yet cause i cant stand to think the pain i will do to my family and friends... but it makes me feel so week to not being able of doing it.

 

[GeorgeJL]

Yes my whole family knows that I will take my life when I am an old man.