How do people get the balls to commit suicide?

[Anonymous]

I mean there has to be something there to push you past the biological imperative of survival.

[DerrickRicketts93]

One of my best friends committed suicide when I was 18 (he was 17, about to graduate highschool). I wish I could have done something to help him. Its affected me a lot to this very day. I know why he did it because we talked about it the night before and I regret that I didn't get him some help that night. I regret it every single day. I didn't know he was depressed to that extent. I would give him all my bravery if it would bring him back. I've blamed myself for not being there and letting him know that he could talk to me about anything when I could have.. I miss him so much.

[Sex_Panther]

In the Halls of Reality I find that it is more important to keep scraping at reasons to live than to try to find excuses to die. Humans have the rare gift of choice but the burden that comes with this is the ironic loss of certain instincts: It is not in human nature, nor the nature of choice, to by default do all you can to live.

[Oddhonesty]

I've dealt first hand with the emotional effects... it's overwhelming. You have a feeling like there's No one left who cares. like you have Nothing to live for. No future. The pain takes over every moment and it's all consumming. Hurting yourself by minor inflictions is No longer sufficient and they feel like it's best for everyone if they die... I'm glad I got over my depression it was hard.

[Anonymous]

I don't know, but I wish I knew. The only thing that stops me is that fear. I have the thoughts all the time. No one knows how I feel either. I don't really want them to know. I don't want help. I just want to get the courage to do it. I don't get why it's so hard because it will just everything and I won't have to feel this way anymore.

[SoSee]

Hey, I relate to a lot of what you just said. What stops me when I'm feeling helpless is fear, but what keeps me going in between that are the tiny rare moments I don't feel helpless. I don't want to go for help either, and I can't find anything much that helps. But in saying that, hearing you say you just want the courage breaks my heart. In my dark moments I want it too. I wish for you that you could feel small moments where you forget about the dark. Even if they are fleeting, I cherish them, and in those moments I am so glad I haven't given in yet. Please try. You don't have to get help (I almost wish I wanted help), because some days I can feel what it would be like without the dark. That's what I want more of, something that suicide can't give me. Please try, do it for you, and all of us who struggle, and anyone around you

[Opinion Owner]

I have good moments sometimes too. I just wish I had those more than the dark moments. Most people think I am some happy go lucky woman, no one realizes just how unhappy I am. No one ever will either. I hope things get better for you too.

[523206720]

This is my theory - most suicidal people are not brave enough to face pain - they are simply ignorant of how much pain they will have to endure. Just like if a guy goes blind and no longer cares what colour his room is. They aren't thinking at all and that is why they are suicidal.

[ixi10]

They don't have balls. Suicide is an cowardly act. Death and nothingness is easier then life. Everyone goes through shitty things but the majority work through it. Others take the easy way out. Like I said, it doesn't take balls to kill yourself, it takes balls to live and survive

[nooriginality]

yeeeeeeessss!!! atta girl!! mmmwwwaaaaahhhh

[Asker]

easy to say

[DodgersGM]

I don't think it takes balls to commit suicide--just a perfect storm of severe depressions, a lack of support, and overwhelming helplessness. People that commit suicide don't actually want to be dead, after all... they just can't bear the pain of their existence any longer.

[abccba]

It takes balls to go through the shittiest situations without resorting to suicide. It doesn't take balls to kill yourself. Killing yourself is just the easiest way for the pain to end. People who consider suicide don't want to die, they just want their pain to end.

[nooriginality]

ik! how dare they? who do they think they are? uuuggghhh
ik this sounds terrible
but if they think they are worthless
then they should think that they don't deserve the easy way out
its so fucking selfish

[Stacyzee]

They are far gone and feel there is no other way out.
Pretty much depression, and desperation.

A great majority of the people that have committed suicide wouldn't have done so
if they were given help.

[labbie87]

Agree 100%!!!

[Belleza2]

When everything in your life gets tough and has been going in the same cycle over and over and over and over again yeah I believe suicide is an option for some people because survival in this day and age requires way too many fabricated beliefs.

[AndyWes]

Hmm. Given that pretty much every organism on the planet has the survival instinct, I wouldn't say suicides are ballsy as much as they are mentally damaged.

[iampikachu]

The struggle is too much. The only way, they believe, they can be set free is by death. They see no light at the end.

[Anonymous]

It doesn't take balls to give up. It takes balls to trudge through the suffering and endure.

[NoblesseOblige]

A strong mind. A lack of fear. Having done all that you want to do.

[NoblesseOblige]

A 1911 with.45 hollowpoints. Soon...

[harakiri]

This does NOT sound like me ><

[NoblesseOblige]

This was not stamped :) GO back to watching.

[Anonymous]

they just feel like there is no other way out.
its something thats crossed my mind, especially in recent months...

[Cleveland]

Too bad you can't ask them...

[dominiquois]

That's what drugs are for/.

[NovemberJoseph]

They yolo it

[KhaysunDei]

No women...