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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm considering it. Hate to give up though.[/quote]

Hi, I hope you aren’t done reading today. I just wanted to say that I heard what you said and I’m sorry you are feeling in this kind of pain today. I have been there many times myself and have attempted suicide more than once. Most days I’m glad I wasn’t successful but some days I wish I had been. I struggled for a lot of years with the idea that I needed to get past this and be cured, but I’ve come to understand that some of us just struggle with this and while it can come and go sometimes for months or years at a time, it will likely come back so I have to have a plan in mind for how to cope with the feelings.

Did you know that the suicidal impulse usually lasts only 1-10 minutes? Suicidologists have studied the phenomenon and found that while ideation can last for weeks or months at a time, the impulse to follow through is often very short lived. The trick is to survive this time. Although I was raised around firearms and feel comfortable using them, I haven’t kept one in my home for years because I know this is a particularly lethal means that I don’t want to have at close hand should I feel the impulse. I’ve also developed various techniques to help me get through days or hours when I’m feeling strongly that I should exit the pain that life often brings.

If you are feeling that way today, please reach out. To someone, anyone. You don’t have to talk about it, but if you want to you could call 988 and speak to someone who has been there or who is at least trained in the right things to say. Sometimes we just need to get outside our head which can become an echo chamber of negative thoughts that reinforces our feeling we are worthless. But you are not worthless. Somebody in this world cares about you and you have made their life better. I know you might not feel that way today, but I promise you it is true.

Last week I watched a really good documentary on PBS called Facing Suicide. Please think about watching this, I think you might find it helps to know how very much you are not alone. 
https://pbs.org/show/facing-suicide?source=social[/quote]

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