20 people who reveal the suicide almost engaged what stopped them

Remember: it's never too late.


The tragic loss ofKate Spade andAnthony Bourdain This week was a painful reminder because even those who succeed and seem to have an enviable endless life could be threatened with suicide. In fact, middle-aged and high ages like shovel and bourilatare one of the most afflicted demographics of a disease which claims 45,000 Americans each year.

That's why it's so important that many celebrities have advanced to share the way they deal with their own dark thoughts.Dwayne The Rock Johnson Recently open his own battle with depressionProviding that there is nothing "Sansmanly" about expressing feelings of sadness.Ryan Reynolds recently revealed that his ascendant, the comic strip isA self-defense mechanism for very serious anxiety problems.James Marsden talkedabout the importance of not forgetting your feelings. AndIn an interview with better life,13 reason why actorRoss ButlerWhoever features in a hit show that directly deals with the suicide of adolescence, shared how he overcomes the feelings of loneliness and fear.

The fact is that everyone, no matter how brilliant and brilliant life can look out, difficulties with these problems. As people have grown up with the news of Bourdain,Celebrities took to Twitter to share tributes on the celebrity leader and post the number of the national life line of suicide prevention1-800-273-8255.On reddit,whoreally offers a lot of support for people suffering from depression,Users shared their favorite Bourdain video, one who really captured his generosity, his humor, his mind and his ability to see the beauty of ordinary things.

AMegathread for the prevention of suicide developed, inviting people who have been about to suicide to share what made them change their minds. You can read some of the broken stories of this wire below. After all, we can talk to you about12 signs of warning suicide hidden in light And the manyWays that your loved ones hide their depression, But nothing is quite like hearing people who have been at the edge of the abyss and have regained their way.

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Make plans for tomorrow

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"I am the mother of a child's child who died of cancer. There is nothing but no one can do to help me kill me - in addition to listening and being present. I n Do not tend to anyone. Be suicidal means that you want to die- Nobody could have spoken to me. My family knew that I struggled and they took some changes looking at me. They bought me my favorite foods , watched the Ru paul drag race with me for weeks (seriously .. For some reason, it was the only thing I could watch.) They listened to me crying and did not try to give me solutions . They just said, "I know". We had a potato word word. If I said a potato, that meant that I needed that I needed to need anyone present physically with me .. quickly. There was always a plan for the next day - 'Tomorrow We're going to have lunch at this Mexican square, okay ? "Tomorrow, are looking for a special garden marker for kilometers. I think it was a big part of that - have a plan for the next day, I had to continue. It's been almost four months since my 3 years died and I'm still living. "

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Distractions

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"I lost a son named Miles. He was a week. It was suddenly. One day he was in good health, pink and screaming, the next he was blue and go in a cardiac arrest. He was going to turn ten years This July 2nd. My 'Only show that I can watch' was the horrible showing showing "next" on MTV. At night he died my husband (boyfriend at the time) and I sat in a hotel room (Because we could not go home and face his business) and played a cooperative board game all night. We took breaks to cry and scream, then kept playing. This stupid game me Guarded alive, I'm sure. I also had to have a plan for tomorrow. Even if it was just what I was going to have for breakfast. There were days when I was crying so hard that I thought that tears alone would kill me. I had to force me to stop me, some that I was about to literally die a broken heart ... J E Am almost a decade, and a few days, I still can not believe I'm a member of this club. "

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Think about suicide as an action

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"I tried to commit suicide at 19. I think the most difficult thing for non-suicidal people to understand is that many suicidal people do not want to kill themselves, they just want to stop exist. And take the pills. was extremely difficult and all I continued to think that all the time was that it would be so easier if I could just fall asleep and never wake up. It wasagonizingThink I kill myself potentially as a death, I could not control or have less control would just have ... arrive. Then there is everyone and everything else to consider. I also threw up on several occasions that the whole world would be terraced so that I could stop existing, but that neither myself nor myself should not face the pain or that you were missing on a good life. I found these things really difficult to articulation at 19. That's what many depressed people looks like. "

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Do not be afraid to admit that you have made a mistake

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"I work at the control of the poison. One of our main jobs is to provide advice to patient hospitals who have overdosed.je will never forget a teenage girl who took an overdose of Tylenol and A apparently regretted shortly after, but was afraid to say anyone. She did not tell anyone before 3 days later. She entered the awakening and spoke and died waiting for a liver transplant. She left behind him A broken family and more friends she had realized. If you arrived at the hospital a few hours taking pills, it can be repaired. Do not be afraid to get the help you need . "

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Dogs

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"In 2015, I was crazy a wonderful honeymoon with my amazing wife when I hit a little low. I am depressive maniac and I'm used to the ups and downs, but this weakness is not gone. I thought that I was stronger than my depression but it continued to continue. After about 6 months, my spouse was barely capable of hanging there and spent a lot of time with his mother in another city because I lost myself. Night Christmas that year, his wife was at the celebration of his family, I sat in our guest room alone and I had my 9mm of the hand. I had trouble crying and crying and angry and ... a nightmare was taking place in my head. I could not do it however. I leave my dog ​​in and he jumped to me and licks me and stirred his cock, so I dragged with Him for a moment and put the pistol. I promised my wife I would try to make the necessary changes to recover and advance rapid To today, we are halfway from his pregnancy with our first! It's a boy! I am very active physically and I have things to work towards, and Now a son who comes who deserves a great set of parents. My wife is amazing and she stuck with me through the times I have left myself ... She did what she could when she could, considering how much I pushed everyone to everyone during this period. I can never repay it to be faithful to me when I do not think I deserved fidelity, I just hope I can give him and my son the best husband and dad possible for the rest of our lives. At the time, I plan to do that everyone hates me so nobody misses me when I finally killed myself. It was a dark model that made me lose who I was. I am a different person today and I learned to recognize the signs and not to ignore my "small stockings". I never miss a chance to tell my wife how wonderful she is. I also added the physically active part because I got back and physically tired is incredibly therapeutic for me, personally. "

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Make people love you

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"When I was a teenager, I had bad problems with depression and anxiety that led to a very self-destructive behavior. There were often several times I had imagined killing me and one night, I put myself By doing it. I went home drunk and sad and started cutting my house, which was one of my methods of treating my emotions. I sat in my crying bed, trying to find the courage to cut more deeply and put it end at the end. Then my dog ​​snoopy jumped on the bed and puts his head on my knees. Thank you. Thank you I realized that I just could not do that or to my parents and friends. He saved my life that night. The next day, I decided to open up to my parents and ask them to help me find help, who was a huge step in Before. Sometimes everything you need is a reminder that someone loves you help you try to love yourself. "

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Seriously, however, dogs

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"I bought a dog. I have a very busy life, so people ask me if I regret it to have regretted it, because dogs are all high maintenance. I have to walk it several times a day, nourish -The, keep it, clean it. After it, remove the dog's hair from all including myself with an endless offer of fluffy rollers. I do not regret it. I got it for a goal. that I will not tell them. Because I'm alone. Because when I'm at my lonely, I have no one to turn to me, no one to see, to speak, despite my best efforts. I have it Because I know if I'm dead, I would miss something, so I can not leave the. "

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Cats also

"I am now 2 for 2 in suicide attempts to be stopped by my cat. Just look at him and always measure something or someone nearby; it might simply save you." Another user also wrote: "In 2012, I lost just about everything: my work, my wife, my friends and I had alienated my family. I arrived at once. Everything was ready, except that I Did not know what to do for my cats. I had to make sure they were cared for. The more I thought, the more I realized that they need me. No one else would like them Like me. These little Fuzz balls need me. Now, at any time I feel pushed back, I just kissed my cats and remember me. "

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Professional help

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"I was suicidal about 6 months after my best friend of my girlfriend / a better permanent friend left me. I decided that I finally needed help. I knew I've had deep problems but I did not want to face it. I have always hidden them and I always found ways to distract myself. I went to my family doctor and I referred to a psychiatrist and J 'have seen some for the last two months. I am very proud to say that this week has been my first week for years that I can say that I' I've been truly happy and proud of me. It's going Better. That's really. Even when you're in the deepest hole. But you can not do it alone. You can not just cover your problems. You can not destroy them. "

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Realize how much it will hurt your loved ones

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"I tried to kill me at the end of May this year. I felt like I hit the bottom of the rock, and at that time, it looked like the only exit. I I lost the woman I loved, I started drinking every day, I wounded a lot of people emotionally. I thought that if I pushed everyone, it would be easier to let go. I am not Not comfortable saying how I did it, but when I got aware, I called a friend who helped me. I'm so happy that I did not succeed. When I was Young child, my mother and I went on my brother unconscious after a suspension and it's an image that is buried in my brain. Fortunately, he survived, but I will never forget my cries of mom's agony and His pleading with God when she tried to get her to wake up. The thought of her having to walk again, ensures that I will never attempt. Instead of wishing to die in my Sleep, I'm so grateful for every day that I wake up. Because every day is a new start. "

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Talk to someone

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"There is almost exactly one year, one of my best comrades has been drunk in the middle of the night telling me that he would put it end, and he wanted to apologize to do that and thank you for being the only one to support it. I had so scared and started calling people who had been on the same party he assisted earlier and that he managed to find it nearby to walk alone Towards the railway tracks. I ran to him and stopped him. We talked for nearly five hours at night that night. We agreed to try to try a therapy.The worked. A TLEAST For him, and he is now on the way to his way, pursuing a career in the graphics. I ask everyone who feels depressed at least trying to talk to someone, your family, your family or a family or a family Therapist / A hotline as it could help more than you think. "

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As for real, dogs

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"I had a dog here. If I did not come to the house one day, he never stopped sitting near the door that would wait for me. He never stopped missing my smell and my voice . He never stopped never stopping a walk, another game to hunt the laser with me, one of five for a treat. He never stopped jumping to look at the window when he heard someone 'One to come the sidewalk and let his heart be filled with a joyful moment of hope. It does not matter how many times that hope has been precipitated, he never dropped. He is a little a doofus this way. Otherwise else in my life could possibly explain to me. You can explain to them what happened and they had at least be able to understand if not accept it. But my little brown dog was ever wondering why I did not get home. And he had a rather difficult life so far. I was his friend when he had not Rsonne and he was mine. Anything in life in life, putting it through this kind of suffering is not something that my soul would never let me do. Otherwise, I proportally have done it. "

Indeed, if there isOne thing we learned from the famous dog who waited at the station From his dead human to go home every day for nine years, nine months and fifteen days is that dogs will never have surprised it.

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Realize how this will affect your children

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"Please do not use the saying" This is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. "It could be true for someone who suffers from depression of the situation. The depression that goes away. For someone with chronic depression, he never really disappears. It's not a temporary problem. It can be managed. You can be better. You can be better. You can learn to live almost normally. But when a person has been suffering for years, barely living, barely able to get out of the bed the latest morning, this is not a temporary problem. When I was in my worst depressed state and I heard that saying for the first time, what I heard said was: "It's a permanent solution to a permanent problem" and You know what? It was comforting. It was encouraging in an erroneous way. I just wanted to stop exist. You do not have to worry about waking up next morning. What I thought That I knew I would destroy my children's life. I knew they would blame themselves. Even If I thought they were better free without me there and I prejudiced them. If I damaged. If I took my life, it would be much worse for them. "

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Alcohol

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"I have 22 years old and I have been suicidal for about four years. Three weeks ago, I tried to suicide by taking a pile of pills. I know I have people who love me and support me but the depression has a horrible way of doing me feel like me as if I do not deserve them and they would be better without me. I do not feel this way, and it's taken to cut off the alcohol of my life for me To understand that. If you have trouble fighting and using a substance, please plan to abandon it, or even reduce the years. I spent years using alcohol to deal with To my feelings, and it ended up being the reason I needed the RCP to keep me alive. And things are better. I'll go to 23. "

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Realize this will destroy your parents

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"I tried to commit suicide by overdose when I was junior in high school. I have about 22 years old now, it's been 6 years old. I took the bottle of whole acetaminophen and I said things" off "(My goodbyes) to my friends and they noticed and rushed to midnight to tell my parents, something was very wrong and called the ambulance. I will not surrender what I did but they knew about My eyes that I did not go either, then they had made me at the hospital and made me ingest this absolutely horrible fluid coal. I threw it everywhere in the middle of the night, but when I'm am awake at some point, I saw my mother turned praying and crying and I will never forget. The other view that stops me from all this is now my father crying when they checked me in The room. In all my life, I had never seen him crying with the exception of this one. Were you out there. Even if you do not like. 'Do not have a family that supports you, Friends are there. About two years after I had animal rabbits and I like them death. I can not imagine letting my pets behind and when I am emotionally in distress, I will look at them in silence and it helps me to calm me a little more and recover. It's hard, but it's something. Therapy helped me and my family will open each other on things I kept in it caused me to go on the edge. Now, especially someone who knows first-hand what this dark emptiness looks like I think I pushes to help my friends around me if I want to cross the same thing. "

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Other people involved

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"I tried to commit suicide three times in my life. The first I was trying to cut my wrists and I was arrested by my childhood friend. The second I had a weapon with mouth and I heard my nephew laughing on the other side of the house and I could not have seen it. The third I had accumulated a firearm, chose my place to go to a domain, gone close all My bank accounts to let my money for my family. My sister found my rating, my father (who is a cop) and his colleagues officers took me at work and I was hospitalized. Mental illness should be addressed. As Someone who suffers, I know how difficult it is to talk without talking about living. I spent years from being silent about my illness. I was ashamed. I thought it was my fault and I should be able to handle it. I was wrong. It cost me jobs, friends and partners. It costs me very almost my life. Once I was hospitalized, I have Finally, could receive the help I wish desperately. I always rebuilt. I'm always struggling. But I can now see a lig HT at the end of the tunnel. At everyone who suffers from mental illness: I see you, I'm here for you and you are not alone. The world may seem empty. Everything can lose his chandelier. Just know that there are people who care and really support you. Even if you can not always see or feel it. "

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Leaving love in

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"I had trouble with a gentle depression and anxiety for a moment, but it was never overwhelming. Then the next day Thanksgiving, I moved to 5 hours of my family and my fiancée to take A job in a television channel. The city depressed in itself, with some of the highest overdose of heroin and poverty rates in the state ... I hit the bottom of the rock.I Guard especially under control, and I started to see a therapist who helped a little. But one day came where he was too much, and I was so stressed and broken from the thought of having to go to work and throw myself into A job that fears that I decided that I was going to drive me into a tree on the way to the way. I'm never self-alard, I could still laugh and joke with friends, but I just do not have Given the point of length longer. While I did not say to my fiancée, she could say that something was wrong and appealing my therapist. My therapist immediately sent someone from the services, who helped talk to me. She called my job to tell them that I would not want to come to work that day. That I was grateful for enough, but it was the reactions of those who around me who moved me. When he heard what happened, my roommate (who worked on the same station and that I had only met a few months before) rushed at home immediately to make sure I was going. That night, my fiancée led five hours in a snowstorm to make me pass and spend a week with me and meet my colleagues. I ended up leaving the next two months, a year ago, from the last Tuesday. I have come home with my parents for a few months and I'm back in the city where I went to college, working as an admission counselor for my Alma Mater. I married my wife last December and she was my savings grace. She is beautiful and funny and intelligent, and more than I can ever hope to be. I'm creating it entirely with saving my life, and I can never feel it about that I love it. People care about you. You just have to let them enter. "

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Realizing that you have control over your emotions

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"I was going to suicide me for a moment. I had a scheduled date, I had a method, I had things I wanted to do and that I had done everything, I even practiced what I wanted May my note be, I had a glorious vision of people returning to the region of my funeral and to meet again to have a good time. That's when I realized that I had to be Deniring, no one comes to my funeral would have a good time. They would all be miserable. The note would not explain it quite well, no matter how many times I rewrite it in my head, I could not get it so that people understand. My mother, she would never understand, I never thought about it. Most of the things I'm worried about, it's just things I'm worried. If I just stopped from M ' to occupy this, it would no longer be sh sleeps. I am worried. I mean you kill me is the end, is nothing worse who can happen to you at that time, the game E ST COMPLETED. Maybe I just had to start a new game, where I was free from the material that held me own in this one. "

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Imagine the person who finds you

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"I tried suicide when I was 16, I was depressed and untreated because the mental illness was not something that was recognized in my family. I cut my wrists and the Tins under the water. The only thing that stopped me was the thought that my 5 year old niece would be to find me. I did not want. I bandaged, cleaned, and I went to establish to re-evaluate my life. No doubt should have had stitches, but I was not ready to admit that I had "problems". I'm now. I always fight with my depression. I medicated for a while, but I hated the side effects. I'm fortunately married, bought a house this year, and a wonderful godchild that is an absolute sun of sun in my life. Thus, the depression is there. But suicidal thoughts are not. Whenever he crosses randomly, even my mind, I remember why I'm still here. But my life is important for me. I want to live to enjoy the good times and fight by the bad. I will Survive. Please, someone who reads that. If you need help, get help. Your life is worth it. There is a lot of love and support there if you need it. "

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Understand what depression is appeared

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"When you have depression, it's like it snows every day. Some days, it's only a few inches. Some days it snows a foot. Some days it snows four feet. A few more weeks he is an entire snowstorm. When you open your door, it is at a snow wall. The wavering power, then off. It's too cold to sit in the lounge plus, you come back to bed with all your clothes. The stove and microwave will not work if you eat a cold Pop Tart and call the dinner. You did not take a shower in three days, but how could you at that moment? You are too cold to do anything except sleep. Sometimes people snowdrawn for the winter. The cold seeps in. No communication or get out. The food is exhausted. What can you do again, forty feet snow bench tunnel with your hands? How far is the help? You can do it even in a snowstorm? If you do it, can they even help you at this point? Maybe the death of staying here, but he died to go there too ... sometimes, pelletage is not enough anyway. It is difficult to say from the outside, but it is important to understand what it is like from inside. I firmly believe that understanding and compassion must be the basis for effective action. It is important to understand what depression is, how it feels, what it is to live with it, so that you can help people both on an individual basis and a political basis. "

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Realizing you are not alone

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"It will be buried, but until recently my major depressive disorder was in remission. Something has happened about 2 months ago that changed my life upside down and as a result, I have recently been struggling with suicidal thoughts. They were ceasing to increase, inch by inch.i may have been reading 30 answers on this subject and I'm almost tears at my desk. I had to remember that I am not alone and that the metaphorical demon haunting the depression of both people on this earth. I can not . Abandon or give in.i necessary today to motivate me to keep the course I fight this time, I can do it again.one of my favorite quotes is from Winston Churchill: when you go to H * LL, Keep you Going. Thank to all contribute to this thread ".

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