Im giving a speech on suicide

[tripfly 264]

Its down the road not across the street

 

 

 

 

 oh you want ways to help prevent?

 

can't say i'm an expert on this sorry

[Pinkie Dust 85]

I'm not very knowledgeable so sorry but for me personally I find music no matter how I feel music just helps me realize life isn't that bad and cheers me up this my not help most people but for me at least it's one of the best things for me to do when I hate life.

[DubWolf 17,264]

Suicide is giving up before you reach the end of the tunnel. Let's say I hypothetically, would kill myself because I feel like I will never be able to fly a plane (hypothetically ). I don't know how long it will take if I ever learn, but my chances of me learning that are zero if I don't keep tying.

 

Suicide destroys any chance that your life will get better by not having a life.

[Silver Blade 56]

Suicide is giving up before you reach the end of the tunnel. Let's say I hypothetically, would kill myself because I feel like I will never be able to fly a plane (hypothetically ). I don't know how long it will take if I ever learn, but my chances of me learning that are zero if I don't keep tying.

Suicide destroys any chance that your life will get better by not having a life.

May I use this all in my speech? If so, how do you want me to cite it?

[DubWolf 17,264]

May I use this all in my speech? If so, how do you want me to cite it?

You can cite it anyway you want or make up a name (or use anonymous). Are anonymous sources ok?

[Silver Blade 56]

Oh, totally fine. Thank you for letting me use this, it is a good example and it has good motivational value! You ave a good understanding of this topic, thanks for posting.

[Teabee 59]

Ah, I remember back when I was bullied in high school.  I thought the best thing to do was fight back and hide behind a wall of anger, which got me in trouble with the school because I "started" the fights.  How's that for justice?  Anyway, I guess you could say that it left me a very bitter person and for the longest time I felt like the entire world was against me, which contributed to my wanting to kill myself much later on in life when I was in college.

 

So, suicide can happen to anyone and it's very rare that depression is dumped upon people in one serving.  It creeps up on you before you realize it's happening until all you can do is hope and pray that it will end one way or another.  It has to be fought every day.  When you start to think about killing yourself, it's because you're coming close to the end of your rope and you need to get help before it's too late.  I found that trying to find all the little things that were good about life worked really well - the smell of the flowers, a cool breeze in the summertime, that delicious toasted bagel I ate for breakfast this morning, the time I hid from that jerk in the hall and made it to class without getting picked on, stuff like that.  I turned them all into little victories and they helped keep me going until I could find a reason to keep on living.

Edited May 1, 2014 by Teabee

[aoEAF2FBvC0MIo2Q 3,673]

Hmm... I've dealt with suicidal people before.

There was that time when this person seemed close to going through with it. The conversation seemed to have gone into an all-time low. But I didn't go that route to try and convince her things she's probably already heard a million times. Actually, I don't quite remember what I did because whatever I did, it didn't come from an algorithmic execution. All I had in mind is that I was to treat her with dignity even in that very dark hour. Giving her another lecture just seemed like an insult to her intelligence.

 

Thinking about it... We talked. Just talked. It wasn't some deliberate ploy to distract her from the subject or whatever is causing these thoughts. Nor was I just saying stuff to try and get her to feel better. That just doesn't seem... "authentic" I think would be the right word. Yeah, I think that describes it. My attention was on her as a person, not on her suicidal temperament. There's a very big difference between the two things. I guess the point I'm trying to make here is to be there for the person, not for the suicidal behavior.

 

 

(I should get on Skype more often. It's been a while since we talked and I miss her )

[RWB 229]

I've only interacted with one person who turned out to be suicidal in my life. It's actually scary when you can't tell.

 

Smartest person I knew in person, great and jovial in discussion, doing fantastically in school. A good friend, despite the fact that we didn't interact all that much.

 

 

Then on the 3rd of April, I get a call from a another good friend about how this guy has committed suicide- and I honestly ask if this is a late april fools joke- it's not.

 

He hanged himself- apparently he suffered from bouts of depression caused by scizophrenia. Still to this day I wonder- why didn't I notice? Could I have done anything at all?

[Shanks 10,816]

 Still to this day I wonder- why didn't I notice? Could I have done anything at all?

It is probably not your fault, it can be notoriously difficult to tell with some people. There are plenty of depressed and even suicidal people that are able to put up a front in public to where they seem happy and well adjusted or at least content but may be suffering in silence. This is why it is so crucial that we encourage people going through depression to get help, there is this stigma against being suicidal where we blame the victim and it discourages people from getting the help they need and we need to get rid of it. Even if you know a person relatively well they can sometimes hide it, even my own mother was surprised when she found out I had thoughts of suicide last fall, she knew something was wrong but didn't know things were that bad. As I have mentioned in a previous statement on here I have had suicidal thoughts at other times in the past but she has remarked that she didn't understand why I had those thoughts and that I had no reason to have them.

 

That is a common mistake people even those who are well meaning make, they see the good things in the persons life and what they have to live for but the suicidal person still has reasons for feeling that way even if they may not make sense to people around them even loved ones. One of the most common reasons for this is stress which was the case with me. I felt completely overwhelmed and helpless, everything felt like too much and it seemed like I couldn't hold on.

[Sigma 768]

I'm going to make this plain and simple. Bullies are white collar murderers.

 

Tell that to the class, because I have little pity for these people.

Edited May 2, 2014 by Asterisk Propernoun

[Silver Blade 56]

I'm going to make this plain and simple. Bullies are white collar murderers.

 

Tell that to the class, because I have little pity for these people.

Ok, I will tell them that, because when you think about it, its true.