How to deal with suicidal urges without antidepressants

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Had a bad experience with these, and they don't work. But I'm kind of a mess at the moment and need to seek help but am afraid of being forced to take SSRI's again.

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When I lived in Hollywood I sank very low. I gave a call to the Suicide Hotline. I don't know if it saved my life, but it's better than nothing. Here's are a few numbers. Hang in there, man.

Need help? In the U.S., call 1-800-273-8255

1-800-SUICIDE
1-800-784-2433

i can only speak for what kept me alive in my darkest hours. when i was stuck in the army, the only thing that enabled me to function was the most punishing physical exercise i could do and not fall apart physically- running 5 miles per day and swimming a mile a day afterwards, that did something to my brain that kept me head above the waterline, so to speak.

I;m sorry. I used to be depressed as a teen. I got through it by becoming happy with what I had and I don't really have friends but I hang out with my cousins or my sister and do something fun like cook a yummy recipe together. If I really feel bottled up, I have to walk with a park that has a lot of tall trees. For some reason looking at the tall trees makes me fel better.

Is the problem with anti-depressants in general or SSRIs in particular? Cause if it's the SSRIs, there are other drug families that may help, such as the MAOIs, the mood stabilizers, anti-anxiety drugs (benzos), or one-off drugs like buspar. Even the SSRIs have significant differences within the family; I've tried many if not most of them and gotten a whole different spectrum of effects. My problem is that my body adapts to drugs, so even the effective ones only work for a few months before I have to restart the search.

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i can't comment on meds, but i'd like to share with you something that works.

like cakey said, go to the place, or the thing, that makes you feel better. for me it's a fluffy blanket. it's a comfy spot on the sofa all wrapped up with a cup of tea to sip. it's knowing that for the moment I'm safe and warm while my head's having a storm like the ocean in winter. it's knowing that when I feel physically happy (as in, my body feels comfortable and warm), my mind calms down, even just a little.

can you do, or look at, or touch, or smell, just one thing that makes you feel even a tiny bit better?

it's a long walk home from depression and suicide, but it's worth making the journey - you bring back so many gifts for everyone, including yourself.

much love x

ps - a *hug* for you, if you like hugs

If you have suicidal issues since 7 years, I would recommend you to seek a therapeut or comparable person. So people can have times, when everything goes wrong, or someone they loved dies, or work too much, sleep too less, .... that they have suicide issues for some weeks, and therefore these medicaments can help to get over that time, without something happening.

But if you have suicide issues since 7 years, then there has to be something behind them, you should work on with some help.

Can normal therapeuts force you to take medicine you dont want in your country? So in my country I only can be forced to take some medicaments, if I am a threat to others, so normally in this situation you are anyway in a guarded hospital for mental ill persons. So my therapeut respected, that I didnt want to use pills, so I only agreed to get some medics that helped me getting more sleep at night, because as long as I only selept 3-4 hours because of sleeping issues and worries, my therapeut hardly could help me, because of me being so exhausted. But he never could have forced me to take some medics.

So I´w give therapy another try, if I was you, for your own sake, to get happier again. I am really happy for my therapeut. He already had some "customers" with autism before, so maybe this is why he could help me. Maybe try to find one, that has experiences on autism either.

It could also be a side effect of taking too much choline supplement (just figured this out). When you take nootropics for Nonverbal Learning Disorder, you have to take choline to prevent headaches. But too much can lead to depression. I am getting my second session for bipolar screening tomorrow but am worried about being forced to take SSRI's. It almost seems like Lexapro is what gave me bipolar disorder to begin with.