Comments on: The Silence Of Suicide

By: peterspc

peterspc — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 23:12:00 +0000

hello I don’t think this is the right site towards helping with your particular problem as it does not seem to be very well attended , may I suggest you see your gp instead but make sure you tell them you need more than the usual 10 minutes so you need to ask for a double appointment , also do not let them give you Prozac as they create manic behaviour problems , I would suggest amitriptyline at least., you will sleep well without any problems , they take at least 3 weeks to settle your thoughts so wait for it to click in but as I say in between you will get a good nights sleep .

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 12:53:00 +0000

I always thought I was the most strongest of people and nothing or no one could take the smile from my face, over the past twelve months I have endured what most people wouldn’t endure in a life time and I’m still going through it now. I cannot go into details because of the nature of my situation and I have tried a couple of times to end my own life because of the torment I have suffered at the hands of others , I sometimes think that the only way for it to stop would be to succeed in my attempts then I look at my children and it breaks my heart that I sit and think of ways to end it all and can’t come to any other conclusion other than the torment I have inflicted on my family. I am being treated for depression and I have seen a mental health expert who said I have reactive depression. I have pains in my stomach from the gut wrenching feeling of taking my daughter to school and having to face the outside world. To her and my one year old I’m just mommy and these are the children I longed for for over 10 years.
When they go to bed and I constantly clean I can’t sleep not even the medication helps my mind goes into over drive , I asked people for help and I get brushed aside

By: peterspc

peterspc — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 21:37:00 +0000

I can only join this discussion via saying I failed in my attempt at suicide and therefore live to tell the tale , I remember coming home from work and then a sudden feeling of great sadness , how I ended up on the toilet seat with a razor blade in my hand I do not know ?
So I don’t think that chronic depression is the culprit which many latch onto after the event, oh yes she had been on medication towards her depression ? but what of when a 14 year old suddenly hang themselves in the woods ?
So I don’t think depression is a good enough reason to kill your self because when you are depressed all you have to do is take 200mg of amitriptyline every night and you will sleep for a week if not disturbed and I can assure after a weeks sleep the last thing you want to do is kill yourself but maybe instead the person who banged on your door to wake you up ? and then comes the inquest oh yes evidence of chronic depression c/o the part time coroner .? tragic loss etc.
If this new website is going to be of any merit then I would like to say suicide is painless and pain free simply because you are on another wavelength which others are not tuned into apart from Adolph Hitler and Eva Braun ?.
So what’s to be done about yet another 6000 plus lives going straight to the crematorium or even worse having your tombstone facing the opposite direction of everyone else, because that’s how the Victorians dealt with such an ungodly act ?
What is the history of suicide ? where did it originate ? and then maybe we can find out why ? because I can assure it has got very little to do with depression, and I do believe there is a better and more lasting explanation for the good of all .

By: Karen Ivey

Karen Ivey — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 17:57:00 +0000

Just wanted to say it was lovely to read your post Jean. 17 years is a long time, but as you say you still think about Dan & miss him every day. I lost my only brother a year ago. I am the same, and I have no doubt I always will be, thinking about him everyday, wondering what I could have done, what anyone could have done. If only he had known what a void he would leave, how much we would grieve, how many tears would be shed, how much we would miss him, how much he was Loved, what we could have done for him, we would have done anything for him, anything to help him, to stop him from making such a final decision for himself – He didn’t give us that opportunity, like so may don’t, I only wish…….. He was 56 & there was a year between us so we were very close, he left 3 beautiful children, who were 21, 17 & 13. Why? Karen Ivey.

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 21:57:00 +0000

Thank-you Michael. Please keep this going.

By: karen.gaskell

karen.gaskell — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 17:44:00 +0000

The only person I’ve lost and that is myself. I have gone to bridges with the intent to jump maybe the next time I will

By: Wendy pearce

Wendy pearce — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 10:28:00 +0000

Our 21 year old son took his own life 18 months ago. It came completely out of the blue and as he left no suicide note, we constantly live with the question “why”!

The reason for my post is the taboo issue. Although I have never experienced a blatant taboo about my sons suicide, his younger sister now aged 21, does.
She feels that people of her age judge her and our family and have even openly said to her that she must come from a dysfunctional family.

It is time to educate people that suicide can happen to the most loving of families and we need to question what is going on. I know suicide has been going on for centuries but it seems perhaps the pressure of life is making this an all to common thing that needs more understanding.

By: Abi

Abi — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 09:31:00 +0000

I had been told about this discussion the day before and only wish I had been strong enough to attend. We tragically lost my sister to suicide less than 9 weeks ago, and it is something my parents and I are trying (yet struggling) to come to terms with. I am finding it very difficult to look to the future of a life without my big sister. It still feels unbearable. She was my best friend and I loved her with every piece of me. She was 28, I 27, so very close in age. 1 year and 3 weeks between us.

Michael are you doing any more discussions? I read on the Telegraph article that you were planning to hold talks in Cheltenham (where I am from) – I would be so interested to join the discussion.

The closing words of that article – “We were not anticipating this. I think it’s going to take, maybe forever, to get over it.”, how very true.

Much love you all who have lost a loved one through suicide. I first hand understand how devastating and hard it is to live with x

By: huwwuh

huwwuh — Sun, 09 Aug 2015 06:59:00 +0000

Suicide or the destruction of self is a figment of the imagination of mankind. It is the chosen explanation that ‘fits’ neatly as a reason as to why a person seemingly destroys self. Nobody takes their own life it is taken from them.

By: Katie McArevey

Katie McArevey — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 20:26:00 +0000

Found link on Anna Christian’s Twitter feed. Thanks very much. These conversations are so important xx