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Suicide

If you are feeling like you want to kill yourself, we want to help. We know you are hurting right now, but you don't have to go through this alone. This page contains some suggestions for things you can do right away to help get through the immediate crisis and have a chance to find other solutions. Talk to someone who has experience helping people in your situation:

  • Real Life Advice is here for you; talk to us.
  • a private therapist, counselor, or psychologist
  • a community mental health agency
  • a school counselor
  • a family physician
  • a religious/spiritual leader

Avoid using drugs and alcohol when you are feeling desperate or in a crisis.
Although it is tempting to try to numb painful feelings, they can make your emotions more volatile, and affect your judgment. Drugs or alcohol, in crisis will greatly increase your risk of hurting or killing yourself impulsively, even though you may not have fully decided to do so.

Give yourself today.
The option of killing yourself isn't going to go away. It is a choice you can make. When you are feeling so bad, the thought of just surviving the days ahead can seem exhausting, overwhelming, and unbearable. So try to focus on just getting through today, not the rest of your life. Your coping ability may be greatly weakened right now. You may not be able to imagine getting through this -- thoughts can play tricks on you when you're in crisis. Don't think about the future right now; just make a decision to get through today. Today may be painful, but decide to survive it and give other options a chance, at least for a day.

   Remember you will never be placed in any situation, for which you do not have the capacity to handle.
Suicide a story...
Each day has become an effort. A part of me appears to be dead and the moment I allow myself to think about my life, I am overwhelmed by negativity, which has become such a major part of my life.

Sleep is my only comfort, my escape from the reality of my life, When I am awake, I have to force myself to put on my mask of happiness. People reach out to me for strength, my children need me, I dare not let on just how desperate I feel. I consider putting an end to it all, how I would do it. An overdose would be the easiest, the least painful. My only concern is, how my death would affect those I love.

The devastation for the one who would discover my body. I guess my love for them, is greater than my despair, because once again, I back away from doing what would put me out of my misery.

I know I need to get help, I need to speak to someone. My fear of trusting anyone surfaces and I scrap the idea. My life has become a vicious cycle of despair, self hatred, self pity and darkness, but nobody knows.

How long will I be able to live this way, before I finally do what I know would be wrong……..take my life? ... Talk to Real Life Advice instead... WE ARE HERE FOR YOU...

However alone you may feel, there are people who want to talk with you, who want to help.

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