Anyone lose a close friend or family member to suicide?

[Night_Owl]

Personally, I think suicide is misunderstood by most people because even though everyone has had points in their life where they felt at their lowest.

Not everyone can imagine going even lower than that. It's relatively rare for most people to experience that low. Most people think they have, but they haven't.

When you're that low it just seems like the only option. Like nothing else is even something worth considering because:

1) You've tried most other options.
2) The things you haven't tried won't lead to anything.

Granted, number 2 is usually not true, but that's hard to see when every part of your mind is telling you that it is true.

Sorry for your loss man.

 

[Demondosage]

Usually it's mental sickness that occurs for a long time before suicide. I have seen severe clinical depression with my own father for the past 15 years, to the point he is so depressed he doesn't even have a personality anymore. He cannot formulate complete sentences, acts like he has dementia, and cannot make basic decisions. He is so depressed he has almost become a zombie. If he took his own life I couldn't say it just happened one day out of nowhere because he felt down all of a sudden.

I've tried to do things with him, talk to him, it's beyond repair unless someone is a certified specialist which of course nobody thinks they're ever in need of help

 

[proken]

Sadly, I think there is much more suicide than people think. The figures indicate 14'ish per 100,000 deaths. I think from life experience it's much more prevelent. People care about the after effect from suicide, and don't want to leave that legacy or shame from suicide. Perhaps overdose, single car auto accidents and many more incidental deaths should be added to the figures.

 

[kosp]

My very closest friend has attempted about 4 times, he didn´t succeed and calling himself a coward for it. He has a mental condition, a long history of psychedelics super-abuse, he was hospitalized in the psychiatric for a while and put on several meds that made him bloat like test and become extremely numb, he is like ultra spiritual and extra sensitive, he believes himself to be the messiah and savior of the earth, still he reports that life itself is too painful, also suffered from long time rejection in all areas of his life.

Now I don´t have contact with him anymore, after time he immersed himself in full isolation, no one of my circle knows anything about him anymore.