Will people committing suicide talk to others about it?

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Mostly you will find topics in the internet telling those who are thinking of committing suicide to talk to someone about it. Question is, do you think people who wants to commit suicide, talk it over with their family members / friends / anyone about it? If you think they will talk about it, why do you think so?

They might talk about it the first time they feel that way, but they'll keep it a secret in the future, if they feel that way again.

For years I have discussed my intent and proness with absolutly nobody! I can clearly see the pointlessness of trying that. It will do nothing for me.

Why would this "I care" act even begin to sound legitimate?! Anything they say will go against a life time of negatives.

Last edited by LiendaBalla on 07 Jan 2011, 6:08 pm, edited 1 time in total.

A successful suicide is rarely without notification of some kind.

I think it depends. I had a friend in high school who would talk about suicide frequently but never made a serious attempt. Many years and two marriages later her friends had an intervention about her prescription drug abuse and erratic behavior. She agreed to get help and then shot herself later that afternoon.

This is a good example as you are still alive after "years" of intent. As Mindslave said, there is rarely a lack of notification of some type when someone really means it.

I never talk about mine, I will just look like an attention seeker and a manipulator. I used to talk about killing myself back when I was in my teens and when I was 12 to my parents. I have wanted to kill myself over being depressed and not being normal and I hated how my life was, I have wanted to kill myself over my boobs and I have wanted to kill myself over being so miserable because my family wouldn't pick up after themselves and I had no control over my environment and my parents kept getting mad at me for my anxiety and didn't give a s**t. I just had to suck it up and deal with things around me because they weren't going to abide to my standards just so I be all happy and they are all miserable and walking on eggshells so they decided I will have anxiety than none. Plus they get mad at me for expressing myself and having meltdowns. But I never went making threads about it, I just didn't post online back then, duh. Then when I was 17 I still didn't go on about wanting to kill myself.

I did attempt suicide when I was 15 and I did not say anything to anyone about it, I even acted like everything was going well. Of course when my mom came to the emergeny room her first words where 'I had no idea you felt that bad'

I did. He laughed and offered to get me a rope.
But luckily I also told my best friend, who helped me.

Only twice.... once at home, a different time... at school.... wasn't a very good idea.
I think that people forgot about it no more than a week later though anyway... boy I was feeling quite crappy at the time.
Anyway, I just keep it to myself other than those two times... I rarely/never commit self-harm anymore, although I think that I think about it for at least a few minutes to myself nearly every day, which was more often than my teenage years.

(Never mind.)

Last edited by LiendaBalla on 07 Jan 2011, 11:21 pm, edited 7 times in total.

What's wrong with talking about it if that's the way you feel? I hate the attitude that if one is feeling suicidal one must be expected to go though with it to prove ones authenticity and bona fides to some random stranger. Talking about your feelings is always helpful no matter what those feelings are.

I did talk about it when I was suicidal 19 years ago. I didn't talk about it at all last time I made plans to commit suicide (which I decided against), and I won't in the future if it ever happens again (I hope it will not). No f*cking way am I going to a psych ward. I'll either make it or I won't, but I won't go there.

~Kate

there are many "slow" suicides manifesting as taking poor care of oneself and engaging in radically risky behavior, ala tempting fate. these folk tend to not talk about suicide in explicit terms other than to say they would die doing what they loved to do [the risk takers] or by stoic fatalistic statements such as "life is a [rhymes with witch] and then you die." occasionally the truth may slip out, such as when my father [who smoked and drank and ate his way to a bad end] who, when told he was "digging his grave with a fork" retorted with, "no, i'm using a shovel."

too much stigma, anger and misunderstanding around the issue IMO. Suicide has existed ever since man has walked on his hind legs and will continue to exist long into the future. I also know that if i ever find life just completely insufferable and then i can take the final act of personal autonomy and remove myself from the taunts or control of potential oppressors. The option of suicide is ultimately liberating and a comfort blanket for the suffering.

live, if only to be a pain in someone else's ass.