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 Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:30 pm
I saw a topic here that asked people if they have committed suicide and many answered yes. what surprised me about the thread was how many people talked about multiple attempts. I mean like double digits. I want some answers.
How old are you?
Gender?
do you suffer from depression? if not is there any other mental illness?
Have you attempted suicide?
How many times?
HOW did you try to do it?
do you still think about it?
Have you ever been admitted to a mental hospital? How many times?
My name is Jessica. I am currently 18 years old. I have been diagnosed with depression since 14. I have attempted suicide once. I cut the main artery in my wrist. I have been admitted to a mental hospital twice. I was a big time cutter before I tried to seriously end it. I became a mother at 16 and it has changed my life. I have occasional urges to cut, but I remind myself of what I have. I have not considered suicide in 3years.
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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 6:37 am
How old are you? I am 21
Gender? Female
do you suffer from depression? if not is there any other mental illness? I "suffer" from depression, but I have other mental illnesses as well.
Have you attempted suicide? yes
How many times? I've lost track... but I believe it was 9 times.. might have been a few more than that though.
HOW did you try to do it? I tried overdosing a few times... I slit my wrists... I jumped off my balcony... I tried drowning myself both in the bathtub and in a lake (I had put things on top of my chest to weigh myself down and to make it so I couldn't come back up for air in the bathtub, but it didn't work)... I tried to get myself run over by lying down in the middle of a busy road, but my cousin jumped in front of the car to make it stop... I also tried hanging myself. I asked my father to show me how to make a real noose and I kept it for a year or so before I decided to use it, but the pipe I had tied it to broke... I stabbed myself in the chest with a knife in my sleep (that was scary)... I'm pretty sure that's it. I've thought about other ways to end it all though.
do you still think about it? Not nearly as often as before... Maybe once or twice a year as opposed to two to three times a day.
Have you ever been admitted to a mental hospital? How many times?
I've been admitted to a mental hospital only once and I don't believe they took me very seriously as they were trying to get rid of me a few days after my last attempt. Their solution to my problem was to drug me and make me see a shrink which I have done before and had done before all of that happened.
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