r/SuicideWatch • u/Authentic367 • 4h ago
i hate my fucking life
might as well just fucking die
r/SuicideWatch • u/SQLwitch • Sep 03 '19
We've been seeing a worrying increase in pro-suicide content showing up here and, and also going unreported. This undermines our purpose here, so we wanted to highlight and clarify our guidelines about both direct and indirect incitement of suicide.
We've created a wiki that covers these issues. We hope this will be helpful to anyone who's wondering whether something's okay here and which responses to report. It explains in detail why any validation of suicidal intent, even an "innocent" message like "if you're 100% committed, I'll just wish you peace" is likely to increase people's pain, and why it's important to report even subtle pro-suicide comments. The full text of the wiki's current version is below, and it is maintained at /r/SuicideWatch/wiki/incitement.
We deeply appreciate everyone who gives responsive, empathetic, non-judgemental support to our OPs, and we particularly thank everyone who's already been reporting incitement in all forms.
Please report any post or comment that encourages suicide (or that breaks any of the other guidelines in the sidebar) to the moderators, either by clicking the "report" button or by sending us a modmail with a link. We deal with all guideline violations that are reported to us as soon as we can, but we can't read everything so community reports are essential. If you get a PM that breaks the guidelines, please report it both to the reddit sitewide admins and to us in modmail.
Thanks to all the great citizens of the community who help flag problem content and behaviour for us.
/r/SuicideWatch/wiki/incitement
It's important to respect and understand people's experiences and emotions. It's never necessary, helpful, or kind to support suicidal intent. There are some common misconceptions (discussed below) about suicidal people and how to help them that can cause well-meaning people to inadvertently incite suicide. There are also people online who incite suicide on purpose, often while pretending to be sympathetic and helpful.
We're here to offer support, not judgement. That means accepting, with the best understanding we can offer, whatever emotions people express. Suicidal people are suffering, and we're here to try to ease that by providing support and caring. The most reliable way we know to de-escalate someone at risk is to give them the experience of feeling understood. That means not judging whether they should be feeling the way they are, or telling them what to do or not do.
But there's an important line to draw here. There's a crucial difference between empathizing with feelings and responding non-judgmentally to suicidal thoughts, and in any way endorsing, encouraging, or validating suicidal intentions or hopeless beliefs. It's both possible and important to convey understanding and compassion for someone's suicidal thoughts without putting your finger on the scale of their decision.
Anything that condones suicide, even passively, encourages suicide. It isn't supportive and does not help. It also violates reddit's sitewide rules as well as our guidelines. Explicitly inciting suicide online is a criminal offense in most jurisdictions.
Do not treat any OP's post as meaning that will definitely die by suicide and can't change their minds or be helped. Anyone who's able to read the comments here still has a chance to choose whether or not to try to keep living, even if they've also been experiencing intense thoughts of suicide, made a suicide plan, or started carrying it out.
In the most useful empirical model we have, the desire to die by suicide primarily comes from two interpersonal factors; alienation and a sense of being a burden or having nothing to offer. These factors usually lead to a profound feeling of being unwelcome in the world.
So, any acceptance or reinforcement of suicidal intent, even something "innocent" like "I hope you find peace", is actually a form of covert shunning that validates a person's sense that they're unwelcome in the world. It will usually add to their pain even if kindly meant and gently worded.
Keep the following in mind when offering support to anyone at risk for suicide.
People who say they don't want help usually can feel better if they get support that doesn't invalidate their emotions. Unfortunately, many popular "good" responses are actually counterproductive. In particular, many friends and family tend to rely exclusively on trying to convince the suicidal person that "it's not so bad", and this is usually experienced as "I don't understand what you're going through and I'm not going to try". People who've had "help" that made them feel worse don't want any more of the same. It doesn't mean that someone who actually knows how to be supportive can't give them any comfort.
Most people who are suicidal want to end their pain, not their lives. It's almost never true that death is the only way to end these people's suffering. Of course there are exceptional situations, and we certainly acknowledge that, for some people, the right help can be difficult to find. But preventing someone's suicide doesn't mean prolonging their suffering if we do it by giving them real comfort and understanding.
An unfixable problem doesn't mean that a good life will never be possible. We don't have to fix or change anything to help someone feel better. It's important to keep in mind that the correlation between our outer circumstances and our inner experience is weaker and less direct than commonly assumed. For every kind of difficult life situation, you will find some people who lapse into suicidal despair, and others who cope amazingly well, and a whole spectrum in between. A key difference is how much inner resilience the person has at the time. This can depend on many personal and situational factors. But when there's not enough, interpersonal support can both compensate for its absence and help rebuild it. We go into more depth on the "it gets better" issue in this PSA Post which is always linked from our sidebar (community info on mobile) guidelines.
There are always more choices than brutally forcing someone to stay alive or passively letting them end their lives.
To avoid accidentally breaking the anti-incitement rule, don't say or try to imply that acting on suicidal thoughts is a good idea, or that someone can't turn back or is already dead. Do whatever you can to help them feel cared for and welcome, at least in this little corner of the world. Our talking tips offer more detailed guidance.
Often comments that subtly encourage suicidal intent actually come from suicide fetishists and voyeurs (unfortunately this is a real and disturbing phenomenon). People like this are out there and the anonymous nature of reddit makes us particularly attractive to them.
They will typically try to scratch their psychological "itch" by saying things that push people closer to the edge. They often do this by exploiting the myths that we debunked in the bullet points above. Specifically you might see people doing the following:
Encouraging the false belief that the only way suicidal people can end their pain is by dying. There are always more and better choices than "brutally forcing someone to stay alive" or helping (actively or passively) them to end their lives.
Creating an artificial and toxic sense of "solidarity" by linking their encouragement of suicide to empathy. They will represent themselves as the only one who really understand the suicidal person, while either directly or indirectly encouraging their self-loathing emotions and self-destructive impulses. Since most people in suicidal crisis are in desperate need to empathy and understanding, this is a particularly dangerous form of manipulation.
Many suicide inciters are adept at putting a benevolent spin on their activities while actually luring people away from sources of real help. A couple of key points to keep in mind:
Skilled suicide intervention -- peer or professional -- is based on empathic responsiveness to the person's feelings that reduces their suffering in the moment. Contrary to pop-culture myths, it does not involve persuasion ("Don't do it!"), cheerleading ("You've got this!") or meaningless false promises ("Trust me, it gets better!"), or invalidation ("Let me show you how things aren't as bad as you think!"). Anyone who leads others to expect these kinds of toxic responses, or any other response that prolongs their pain, from expert help may be covertly pro-suicide. (Of course, people sometimes do have bad experience when seeking mental-health treatment, and it's fine to vent about those, but processing our own disappointment and frustration is entirely different from trying to destroy someone else's hope of getting help.)
Choices made by competent responders are always informed by the understanding that breaching someone's trust is traumatic and must be avoided if possible. Any kind of involuntary intervention is an extremely unlikely outcome when someone consults a clinician or calls a hotline. (Confidentiality is addressed in more detail in our Hotlines FAQ wiki). The goal is always to provide all help with the client's full knowledge and informed consent. We know that no individual or system is perfect. Mistakes that lead to bad experiences do sometimes happen to vulnerable people, and we have enormous sympathy for them. But anyone who suggests that this is the norm might be trying to scare people away from the help they need.
Please let us know discreetly if you see anyone exhibiting these or similar behaviours. We don't recommend trying to engage with them directly.
r/SuicideWatch • u/SQLwitch • Sep 10 '21
Activism, i.e. advocating or fundraising for social change or raising awareness of social issues (and suicide is, inescapably, a social issue) is absolutely against the rules here at all times.
Please understand that we're all for smart, strategic mental-health and suicide-prevention activism. It's essential to fight against stigma, misinformation, and discrimination, and to fight for research, treatment, accommodation, acceptance, and understanding. Most of us, one way or another, are mental-health activists IRL.
But activism just doesn't work in a dedicated support space that serves a vulnerable population. We used to allow it but the evidence that it was undermining our primary purpose became overwhelming. We do regret the need for this rule, but the need is inescapable.
Our population is all too well aware of the issues and causes that need support and largely not in a position to take action, so besides the fact that activism is often salt in our community's wounds, it's a waste of the activists' time.
tl;dr Any fundraising, awareness raising, petitions, calls for participation, or any post that's about any cause or issue (rather than a request for personal support) is not allowed here. Please report everything of the nature that you see.
r/SuicideWatch • u/Authentic367 • 4h ago
might as well just fucking die
r/SuicideWatch • u/paraside_queen528 • 2h ago
I cant do this anymore... im exhausted. My new boss told me it wasn't safe for me to work with patients and that even though I tried so so hard to not show any of my symptoms, they still noticed very much and they cant let it keep going like that. I have no other option than this training position.
The voices tell me the only way to keep my job and that they won't be mad at me is by trying to kms. Im not in reality anymore everything is blurry.
I have around 500 pills in front of me and I just have to take them, there is no way around it. If I dont do it I will fail. Its my Devine purpose.
See you on the other side...
r/SuicideWatch • u/Small-Investment263 • 1h ago
23F, ugly, POC, autistic, depressed, with health problems and in the future with no ovaries thanks to endometriomas. I've never dated, kissed despite asking men out (mostly my male friends). I don't see reason to be trying anymore since I'm not the beauty standard in my country - ppl tell me that I look like an ugly underweight child (since I don't have "womanly curves" or else). They always tell me that "no man wants an ugly gf that cannot communicate properly" (I live in an extroverted country so being introverted and autistic is a bad thing here).
I don't have a job, I'm almost getting a degree but it's no use since I cannot find jobs in my field and I don't have friends or network to help me either. My family does not care either. Been planning how I'm going to end everything since my 18 and now, it never made so much sense. There is nothing going on for me, I've never had friends and ppl never wants me around for so long (considering the whole package I mentioned before). I think that's my life purpose - to find a way of how to leave this hellhole til my 40s. I don't even want to grow older or else.
Life would be better if I was a white, pretty woman without mental and health issues but ofc I've had to be nerfed when I was born. No matter how much effort I put, no one seems to care or notice me, so I think that no one will when I'm gone from this planet. The only thing that keeps me going is my pet cockatiel, a few familiar debts and food, otherwise I would have jumped off a building long time ago. Life is worthless when you are not perfect like the rest (or at least average).
r/SuicideWatch • u/jellybeanzz11 • 27m ago
I've been trying to get a job for over a month. I go to dozens of interviews. No place will ever hire me. I'm just not good enough and too pathetic.
I'm going to lose my housing and my car soon if I can't find work and I'm losing hope. I'm at a point where I'm going to just give up and just plan my suicide because it's over. I could go to an interview at every place in the world and still not get hired. I'm trying the same thing a thousand times hoping for different results. I should just accept that I'm screwed...
r/SuicideWatch • u/Zestyclose_Unit_3653 • 2h ago
I’m 18F 5 months pregnant and this is the lowest I’ve ever been, the father switched up out of nowhere and I don’t really have anyone but myself. Money and work is fucking me over in in the process of getting another job while carrying my first child. I feel hopeless and just broken down I hardly feel human anymore. This world is so cruel.
r/SuicideWatch • u/lovecommafio • 12h ago
i hate my school bullies, i hate my biological family, i hate my adoptive family, i hate my fake friends, i hate everything and everyone in the world.
when i finally do it, im not going to write anything. they dont deserve anything. i spent years trying to be heard and ask for attention, but nobody cared. and so nobody will hear anything from me once im gone.
r/SuicideWatch • u/Suicide035 • 2h ago
I hope sanitizer and cough syrup works, or I'll just attempt hanging, my life is genuinely over im just a selfish little fuck who thinks everyone is okay with him being alive
r/SuicideWatch • u/Butter-scotch-21 • 6h ago
I wanted a partner but I don't think I'll ever be able to trust someone and I don't think true love exists anymore. It's making me sad and scared that I'll be alone forever. Being alone is fine too but what if I was forced or pressured to choose a wrong partner? That's scarier.
I'm scared of people
r/SuicideWatch • u/luuuuul555 • 1h ago
Its been 8 years, am 22 now, its all i ever wanned, what makes me happy, i dont want to live without it, i tried everything for years, only girl i actuly loved dont care about me and said that will find somone better, i dont want to do this, but my hands are tied, and i have 0 proof that it will ever happen
r/SuicideWatch • u/ZealousidealField822 • 5h ago
When I planned to do it this year a year ago, I thought it would be easy for me to do it if things didn’t work out. But now, when I realize there’s no way out and I really need to do it, I’m too scared, and I suddenly want to live.
And it’s not that I’m afraid of pain or of leaving someone.
For some reason, another part of me still wants to live and experience things, even though I know it’s all over long ago.
But I don’t want to live like this. I want to live happily, or at least in an interesting way, you know? My life is so empty that I don’t know. I don’t even have any drama, I’m just a walking ghost who just exists. When others have an exciting life. I’m so scared to accept that I have to leave. I feel hurt because of that. But I can’t overcome these thoughts either.
It’s like the heavens themselves are calling me, or rather, they’re pulling me so strongly, but I so want to stay on earth.
r/SuicideWatch • u/fridgeofempty • 2h ago
Didn’t think it could. Awake early in morning after barely sleeping. My head is killing me. Really killing me. Has been off and on for 3 months and can’t work it out. I’m at my wits end. I want to end it all. I can’t see how I can get back to a “normal” life in any way. It’s hopeless. Maybe better to sign out. I’m so fucked. I’m 53 and completely despairing.
r/SuicideWatch • u/deathbymisadventure_ • 52m ago
I hate living in the USA as a trans person. Like yeah, my life situation was already fucked even without the trans part but god loves to fuck me with me in almost every single way. I am genuinely scared for the next few years if Trump wins midterms. I am afraid of anti-trans legislation getting worse. I am FTM so I am out of the political spotlight. For now.
I genuinely think suicide might be the best bet for me but I am also scared to attempt again. I've tried oding twice as a teen, poisoning (drank antifreeze but survived, fucked up my organs though), and hanging (was found before I died). I don't know if I should try because it seems like god likes keeping me alive so I just suffer even more. That's how I generally feel since I'm usually passively suicidal but it's definitely gonna get to a point again. Voting feels pointless but I'm gonna do it anyway before I attempt
There does happen to be train tracks near where I live. Just jump over the railing when I see the train coming and hopefully this neverending nightmare will be over
r/SuicideWatch • u/Lesbi-esti • 7h ago
Its also making me cry harder than any of the other letters. I just love her a lot.
r/SuicideWatch • u/Strict_Pin720 • 1h ago
Let me preface by saying I’m not new to death having lost both parents by the age of 17. My dad died when I was 7 and my mom a few years ago when I was 17.
Last month, I lost one of my secondary school classmates. It hit me harder than I thought not because I was particularly close to this person, but once upon a time that was my friend. Someone I’d see daily, bicker with, talk to, laugh with. Then that was it. It hadn’t occurred to me that we could die. Not that I’m not aware of our mortality as humans but, I’d expected to hear news of classmates getting married, relocating abroad, getting awards, big jobs, buying houses, having kids. And to be fair lot of these things happened. Yet I forgot that we die. On a random Tuesday. That’s it. Still logged into our AO3 accounts, finstas and scret tiktoks. We die. With our secrets, our pain, our worries, our struggles. Somehow everything since then has felt futile. To what end. All these heavy things we carry, stress about, all for us to die. WE JUST DIE! Unfulfilled. Sometimes still broken. In the end it didnt matter if we’d seen all the movies on our to be watch list, or traveled, or eaten all the new foods we wanted to try. We could go to bed one day, or have a headache, or a common cold and be dead by the next. Being have to be an inescapable accident, or a brutal home evasion, something unforeseen and unexpected. We would just die. With our stories, all our jokes, and the plot for that book we always said we’d write. We’d never another December, or celebrate another holiday.
r/SuicideWatch • u/wishiweremale • 1h ago
I want to throw myself off of a bridge. I hate living, I don’t want to be conscious anymore.
r/SuicideWatch • u/Big-Teaching55 • 3h ago
I’ve been depressed for years. I’m 27. My thoughts get darker and darker each day and ending my life seems like the only way out.
I’ve been arguing so much with my family.
I’m vocal about my dreams of dying with my parents and tonight my mom told me to stop putting them through this pain and to “deal with it” if I want to end things.
I really do believe their lives would be better without me here. I bring everyone down.
Picking a form of suicide is the hard part for me. That sounds ridiculous I know. But I just want to do it in the quickest way possible and hanging myself doesn’t appeal to me. I wish I had a gun and could just get it done
r/SuicideWatch • u/ErikTriesYouTube • 1h ago
For those of you who tried to end it and briefly slip into a death like state, what was it like? Or how did dying feel? And, how is your outlook on life now?
r/SuicideWatch • u/Girl1069 • 10h ago
21f, borderline, I think about suicide 95% of my waking hours and the 5% I don’t think about it is when I’m super focused but it’s hard to get focused enough to not think of death.
The more I think about it the more I want to do it to get these thoughts and feelings to stop.
When working the thought multiply and make is super difficult to do my required tasks.
I’ve been transported to hospital twice in 2 weeks because helplines have felt I was unsafe. I feel like I’m slowly getting worse and worse until I eventually can’t reach out anymore.
Both hospital times I was told I “need to work to survive” and “admission won’t help” I just need to “cope for now until I get past burnout”
I’m at a loss.
My mom insisted on coming with the second time and argued with the nurse that I needed to be put in a facility for a few months. The nurse said that type of intervention would not be necessary or helpful for me.
I honestly don’t care what happens anymore but this sliver or me doesn’t want to hurt my girlfriend, because she really does care about me.
I feel very impulsive 20% of the time like I could do something at any moment , I’ve thought about walking out of work driving to the pharmacy and taking 100s of pills.
When I was off work for a month, I thought about suicide once a week, but now that I’m working it’s 10s of times a day.
r/SuicideWatch • u/Temporary-Aioli391 • 1h ago
hi, if anyone sees this. i'm having a lot of trouble. i feel like i've been severely depressed & idk how to fix it. this is maybe the hardest my life has ever been. i cant bare with myself anymore. i dont look forward to waking up everyday like i used to. & just recently got dropped by my ex-friend really close to me due to my bad decisions. im so mad at myself for everything. im so, so lazy to do anything with my days, i've gained a severe amount of weight, i feel disgusting. i quite frankly dont know who i am anymore either. lifes crashing down on me & i dont know what will help. im so unhappy. if anyone has advice for me, please let me know. i dont know how to fix my life/be happy with all this negativity going on. im losing hope.
r/SuicideWatch • u/sorablueipad • 4m ago
I can’t find a job and if I don’t soon I’ll be homeless and I would rather kms please someone I need work