Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 1 Location: Massachusetts
This Is Hard For Me... Posted: 06-21-06 07:23am
So, over a year ago I tried to kill
myself. I was at work at a very easy job
where no one noticed me and I had alot of
time to think. After looking over the
pros and cons I decided that night would
be my last. I had alot of bad luck in my
life, I had some friends turn their backs
on me, parents who constantly battled it
out (not physically), 3 girlfriends in a
row cheat on me (the last one I thought
would be my wife just decided to dump me
without reason after a year). It just
looked very clear to me that it was time
to get it over with. That night I was
home in my room alone and trying to figure
out what i'd do. I thought that obviously
killing myself in my sleep would be
easiest and least painful so i'd try that.
I took my mothers anti depressants ( I
think it was zoloft but cant be positive
of the name but there was like 20 in the
bottle) and I took about 30 tylenol
because it says on the bottle overdose
could rupture your liver or something,
then I took what I had left of my stackers
(the original ones they stopped selling
cause people died taking them) which was
about 20 of them. And I drank all of this
down with a bottle of wine that was
suppose to be shared with a friend who
blew me off the week before. After I took
all of that stuff I laid in bed and tried
to make myself fall asleep, but I couldnt.
I remember thinking to myself "if there
is a god up there please just take me now,
just take me and end this please" and I
kept thinking that over and over to the
point that I was saying it out loud and
crying. A little while later I fell
asleep probably from exhaustion and I woke
up shaking, it was about 2am now and I was
so unhappy that I wasnt getting results.
I couldnt stop my body from shaking and my
teeth were acxtually chattering as well.
I was scared, not because I was dying but
because I was still alive and I knew my
parent would have a fit when they saw me
in the morning. My stomach was going
crazy and I ran to the bathroom and had
diareah almost non stop for about 1/2 hr,
then the puking started. By 4am I couldnt
even control my thoughts. I hit redial on
my phone and I called a friend to come
pick me up and bring me to the hospital.
Thinking of what I just did and how it
would get around I called her back a few
minutes later and told her to forget I
even called and that i'd be ok. Next
thing I know I have like 3 other people
calling me asking if i'm ok and saying
that I could talk to them anytime if I
need to and that they;d bring me to the
hospital if I wanted. I told them all i'd
be fine and I just went back to rotating
between throwing up and having diareah
till 6am when my parents woke up. My mom
saw that her bottle of zoloft or whatever
was empty so she came in my room screaming
at me "what the hell are you trying to do?
Are you f**k*ng stupid?? What are you
doing???" then my dad comes in and hes
talking to me nicer than usual (total roll
reversal for my parents by the way) and
hes like "what are you doing here dude?
Things arent that bad, they always get
better. Do you want me to call father
john? (who was the head priest at my
church when I went to catholic school, by
the way I was 23 in this story so I havent
seen that priest since 8th grade) so after
them yelling at me and trying to talk to
me for about an hour my mom leaves and
goes to work and my dad stays around and
kinda watches over me for the rest of the
day. And after that they just acted like
it never happened. We all went on living
our shitty lives and it was forgotten by
them. But I didnt forget anything. Now
its been over a year later and I have been
having thoughts of suicide again, they
arent as frequent or serious as they were
back then. But since that night I have
always felt different. I feel like a
pathetic loser, I feel like I couldnt even
succeed at killing myself how will I ever
succeed with anything else. About a month
after that night I started dating my gf
melissa, and we are still together now.
There are some days where I wake up in the
morning and I cant even bring myself to go
to work, I dont know why I just feel
horrible and I cant explain it, but it
just like there is this heavy dark cloud
over me some days and I cant shake it and
I feel horrible physically and mentally.
I'll sometimes pick fights or yell at my
girlfriend for the dumbest things too, and
I feel horrible after but when i'm doing
it I feel almost evil and it feels good to
yell at people and make them shut up....
I'm scared because I dont want to be this
way, I have lost jobs because of my poor
attendance because of how I feel and I
feel like i'm going to lose my gf now too.
Remember when I said how my family just
forgot all about that horrible night?
They never took things seriously that I
did, that night and when I use to cut
myself in junior high that was all just a
faze they said and i'd grow out of it.
The thought of having me see a therapist
has probably never even entered their
minds. Now i'm living with my girlfriend
and barely getting by with the money we
make and I really want to stop feeling
this way but I dont know wht to do. I
know talking ot a therapist and possibly
medication should help but I dont have
money for that stuff at all. My body has
been different since that horrible night
too, I have gotten out of shape and gained
about 30 lbs and I have a horrible short
term memory now, and I find it really hard
to focus on things..... This was never
the case before. I really just dont know
what to do and this is really ruining my
life.
Thanks for letting me get that out and
vent, i'd welcome suggestions.
Jake
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mmatters
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 20 Jun 2006 Posts: 9 Location: Pennsylvania
Posted: 06-21-06 13:16pm
There is medical assistance out there for
people with depression. You need to go to
a doctor though to get diagnosed. Also,
with your work history, going in and out
of jobs because of your depression there
is a program out there "workers with
disabilities". Contact your local welfare
office and they can help you get the
medical treatment you desperately need.
I live with depression and have thought
about dying but never tried commiting
suicide. I sometimes just with someone
else would end my life with a car accident
or something. But you also need to think,
death is permanent!! There is no changing
it!! You cannot change your mind after
you've done it!! There is happiness out
there and help at achieving it!! You just
need to find those resources, they aren't
going to come to you. The thought that
changes my mind about suicide, how many
people will be affected by my death. I
don't want to hurt anyone, I just want to
hurt myself and I can't hurt myself
without hurting someone else. You don't
only hurt yourself, you're hurting many
other people around you. Just keep that
in mind. I don't want to put my family
through the depression that i'm going
through by killing myself. I don't think
you wish depression on anyone do you??
Well, by commiting suicide, you will have
achieved just that.
There is help out there for you, just go
get it :d
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Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 11 Jun 2006 Posts: 60
Posted: 06-21-06 14:40pm
Ouch sounds like you got your hands full.
Just remember this, if you kill yourself
your next life is going to be worse. Do
you really wanna die knowing because of
suicide the next life you will have is
gonna be worse? Talk to your girlfriend,
talk on the phone to those people who
wanna help, talk to a priest, go ask for
more hours at your work thatway you can
pay for a councellor and get meds. I know
what you mean by short term memory, my
memory is so shot most of the time within
seconds I forget what I was
thinking/talking about and it's hard to
focus on things and get interested without
going "meh".