Originally Posted by GloucesterChief:
Speaking as someone who was suicidal during the teenage years and did attempt it at least once, I know for me there wasn't this grand plan about it. Something would happen and this switch would just flip in my head and I would think everything would be better if I was dead. It was almost a spur of the moment thing. At that point I wasn't thinking logically or in touch with reality where I thought death was the best option in solving whatever issue flipped that switch even though that issue was incredibly minor.
Thankfully, I have grown out of that even though from time to time the thoughts still creep in but I am able to dismiss them.
You have to understand that with people with the suicidal ideation when that trigger goes off in their mind, they aren't thinking rationally or logically.
Glad you're still with us, man. That's my biggest fear is my brain betrays me. My body isn't worth a shit, so my brain needs to be. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Buehler445:
Glad you're still with us, man. That's my biggest fear is my brain betrays me. My body isn't worth a shit, so my brain needs to be.
I don't know. My grandfathers body went before his mind did and it was a long slow march to the inevitable with him becoming more cranky as the years passed on because he couldn't do what he used to do. He spent the last half year of his life bed ridden and it was terrible to see him like that.
My grandmother on the other side is going through the same thing. [Reply]
I would rather be broke, sleeping on the side of the rode, waiting until I scrounge up enough money to get drunk off of the Walgreens mouthwash than to take my life. But that is easy to say as someone that doesn't suffer from clinical depression. My mom has had issues with it and it obviously can be devastating. [Reply]
Originally Posted by srvy:
I didnt even know he still had a show then I read CNN. Even so he will be missed I liked his old show RIP i guess but how anyone does this having a 11 yo is beyond me.
My brother took his like in 2010 amidst a very ugly divorce. In the letter he wrote me he said he believed it would be easier on my niece for her to just lose him and go through months of a very nasty divorce and then a lifetime of hier parents fighting. Her mother is a total cunt.
Very illogical thinking, but to him it was real enough to warrant hanging himself. [Reply]
Originally Posted by srvy:
I didnt even know he still had a show then I read CNN. Even so he will be missed I liked his old show RIP i guess but how anyone does this having a 11 yo is beyond me.
Yeah, that's messed up.
But let's be honest, it's not like he was around much. And if he was selfish enough to do this, it's reasonable to assume he wasn't exactly father of the year material.
Originally Posted by Frazod:
Yeah, that's messed up.
But let's be honest, it's not like he was around much. And if he was selfish enough to do this, it's reasonable to assume he wasn't exactly father of the year material.
At least he left her a shit ton of cash.
thats kind of an unfair characterization. We know nothing about his relationship. [Reply]