get what? that suicide is wrong?

That people need help when they're desperate and if they don't get it they go to extreme measures?

Sorry to hear about your son's friend, I hope your son gets therapy if they were still close. It's so hard to deal with even a suicide attempt by a loved-one, I can't imagine how bad dealing with a successful suicide would be.

They don't get that depression kills it wants you dead! and when not taken seriously desperate people take desperate measures!This happened in one of my apt. bldgs. where I live! So I'm really upset because he said for the past 2 days he was oin to jump and no one listened!

That is sad, and yes depression does kill. It is also an everyday struggle just to get out of bed. I know that my ex makes fun of me with depression, bipolar alleycat round and round she goes where she stops nobody knows. But you know what? His problem in life far outweighs mine. Although he tries to make me believe it is all just me! So I do agree with this posters on here.

I think some people don't get it because it's nothing they have ever had to feel. They have never felt so helpless and sick that it seemed like the best option for them. They can't wrap their brain around the desperation of it all.
I am sorry about your friend Insecure it's terrible news. My heart goes out to you and his family :(
I have had 3 uncles and a cousin commit suicide in my lifetime.... You are right.....depression is a killer. It's more like the damn Devil himself :(

xoxo

Most people dont even beleive depression is a real disease. Even my dad & ive gone thru 3 attempts. He just says, pull your head out of your ass. Im starting to think he's understanding a little now. 86 & been dying 5 yrs now. Thats would depress anybody

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Cathy

i totally get where you are coming from....no one EVER takes my depression seriously
i spent 6 months of my life visualising hanging myself and not one of my family or friends noticed , cared or checked i was ok

i think they all think i am pretending or something

i never once told anyone i was suicidal mind you except you guys BUT they knew i was depressed and not talking why not check i had not died?

like you say not taking it seriously

i even planned where i would hang from

fuck sake

i also suffer alot of nastiness and blaming from people who seem to think i have wronged them cos i disappeared, failed to attend their parties, couldnt answer the phone or speak

i eveen have a friend hates me now cos i ruined her birthday by crying and going home cos i think i had some kind of panic attack she even made digs at me the next time i saw her like well you send you were fine...like i faked the incident for attention of something

oh fuck everyone

fuck them all

wow this post triggered some bitterness i am harboring

i am one of those people that dont get suicide. I have thought about it but never have gotten so low as to really do anything ~ I have 2 young children that depend on me and expect me to be there ~ so I can never see the option of suicide. could be I am lucky I dont see it. I do have depression and it gets bad sometimes but I feel I have no choice but to be functional, i have no choice but to make other choices to try and make things better ~ where would my babies be without me? their real dad lives overseas and has medical problems and no one in my family would raise them right.......so I see that life has to carry on and i must go on to.

i dont think that was the point insecure was making..i think she meant it makes her mad people who dont take the risk of suicide in depressed people seriously...

not whether we would seriously consider it ourselves

and yeah pinki i totally take your point and maybe if i had kids i would think the same

i do think i could not commit suicide because God would not want me to and I cannot let God down and I also think my family wouldn't cope with it and on that basis as those are my beliefs I never would either

lucky for me I have strong spiritual beliefs some people have not got that to lean on

God bless your son's friend!!! Depression hurts EVERYONE is true. It's really hard for people who have never felt that loneliness or hurtfulness to understand. Therapy is a much needed thing in this world and people are afraid of it. It's really sad to hear this news.... I don't know him but hope and pray he is at peace from what ever bothered him so. I had a very dear friend of mine's brother shoot himself. It was really upsetting to me cause we were suppose to meet up that night.....and another friend got sick and needed to be taken to hospital ...and I went with them. I called him to tell him I was at the hospital with another friend and if we could meet up later and to please call me back. I never got a phone call. My friend called me the next day to tell me about his brother.... he told me Tina I never let you know how bad off Brian was. I never noticed it. He never mentioned it. He said Tina when he would hang with you ....you always showed him love..... I loved when he was with you. It really made me feel awful. That I didn't notice it. So... Peace be with everyone.... and please take notice God bless everyone!!

I don't know....My Biological Mom tried 10 times before she finally succeeded in killing herself.

She committed herself to the mental ward on a few occasions, etc...but nothing helped.

I think the final straw was when her 4th husband left her because he was afraid he would come home to a corps.

So on Christmas Day 1998, she ended her life. She was found dead in her apartment by my Aunt when she failed to show up for Christmas dinner.

I know that she was in pain emotionally as well as severe chronic pain....so.....

I don't know, just wish I could have done something more, I wish I would have lived closer to her .... wish I would have known her for more of my life....8 years was not enough!

Anyway, I do wish people in the world would take the risk of suicide more seriously! Had they...maybe....just maybe...my Mother would be here today!

I also would like to add...

I think that when someone (who is already suicidal) experiences the pain of someone else's suicide they will go one of two ways. They will either follow that person with their own suicide or (as in my case) never put their family through that pain, no matter how suicidal they feel, no matter how much they struggle.

There should be more help out there for those in need, I know there are crisis hotlines, and things, but I wish there were more things out there, more options so the person doesn't feel so alone, so ostrisized from the world because they are in emotional termoil.

Thank you all for your replies and pleass read second "Post"

i totally get it............