How to Fight Suicidal Urges

Suicidal thoughts are incomprehensible to those who have never felt so depressed or forlorn that life is too much to handle anymore. The scariest part of suicide is that a truly suicidal person will typically not tell anyone about the plan so no one will interfere. The only person that can help that suicidal person is him or herself. Are you one of these suicidal thinkers? Take a minute, and let's look at things from a different perspective.

Instructions

Difficulty: Challenging

How to fight suicidal urges

1. Remember that death is permanent. This is not a Hollywood film where, after the fact, you get to watch your friends feel guilty about treating you badly or see your family or loved ones miss you. Once you are dead, that is it.
2. Know that nothing is so bad that you cannot get through it. The only consistent thing in this world is change. As time goes on, everything changes. What is upsetting you now may be something that will be a distant memory in a year's time.
3. Don't look at suicide as a solution. There are other steps that you can take to solving your problem(s). Suicide is not one that will "fix" anything. You are actually leaving a huge mass of heartbreak and confusion behind you.
4. Never think that people are better if you are not there and that suicide is the way to help them. If you are not meant to be in someone's life, you do not need to kill yourself in order to do so. There are other simpler solutions such as not talking to that person or listening to that person and taking their word that they do need you in their life.
5. Don't use suicide as the answer to a failed romance. There are many "fish in the sea." And while you may think that you cannot go on without that one person loving you, wake up and realize that you can. You will go through a broken heart, but it will not last forever, and the right person will come along.
6. Go talk to someone that you trust or who is a confidential professional. If you go to a counselor and state that you are having suicidal thoughts, you are not going to be labeled as a freak and rushed off in a straight jacket. Again, this is not Hollywood, and you are not the star of "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest." There is a plethora of people out there trained to help you. You are no less a person for talking about your depression.
7. Find the light in time. You will not always feel this way. Think about it. You are on the verge of throwing your life away permanently over something that one day will be just another day in your past.
8. Think of all the things that you will miss out on--all of the wonderful people that will come into your life that are anxious to meet you. Think about all of the experiences that are ahead of you that will be breathtaking.
9. Let death happen naturally, and grow stronger by overcoming these dark spells. Once you can get over the hurdles, maybe your experiences can be lessons for others going through your troubles, and you will inspire them to hang on another day simply because it may be better than the one before.