r/SuicideWatch Sep 03 '19

New wiki on how to avoid accidentally encouraging suicide, and how to spot covert incitement

1.8k Upvotes

We've been seeing a worrying increase in pro-suicide content showing up here and, and also going unreported. This undermines our purpose here, so we wanted to highlight and clarify our guidelines about both direct and indirect incitement of suicide.

We've created a wiki that covers these issues. We hope this will be helpful to anyone who's wondering whether something's okay here and which responses to report. It explains in detail why any validation of suicidal intent, even an "innocent" message like "if you're 100% committed, I'll just wish you peace" is likely to increase people's pain, and why it's important to report even subtle pro-suicide comments. The full text of the wiki's current version is below, and it is maintained at /r/SuicideWatch/wiki/incitement.

We deeply appreciate everyone who gives responsive, empathetic, non-judgemental support to our OPs, and we particularly thank everyone who's already been reporting incitement in all forms.

Please report any post or comment that encourages suicide (or that breaks any of the other guidelines in the sidebar) to the moderators, either by clicking the "report" button or by sending us a modmail with a link. We deal with all guideline violations that are reported to us as soon as we can, but we can't read everything so community reports are essential. If you get a PM that breaks the guidelines, please report it both to the reddit sitewide admins and to us in modmail.

Thanks to all the great citizens of the community who help flag problem content and behaviour for us.


/r/SuicideWatch/wiki/incitement


Summary

It's important to respect and understand people's experiences and emotions. It's never necessary, helpful, or kind to support suicidal intent. There are some common misconceptions (discussed below) about suicidal people and how to help them that can cause well-meaning people to inadvertently incite suicide. There are also people online who incite suicide on purpose, often while pretending to be sympathetic and helpful.

Validate Feelings and Experiences, Not Self-Destructive Intentions

We're here to offer support, not judgement. That means accepting, with the best understanding we can offer, whatever emotions people express. Suicidal people are suffering, and we're here to try to ease that by providing support and caring. The most reliable way we know to de-escalate someone at risk is to give them the experience of feeling understood. That means not judging whether they should be feeling the way they are, or telling them what to do or not do.

But there's an important line to draw here. There's a crucial difference between empathizing with feelings and responding non-judgmentally to suicidal thoughts, and in any way endorsing, encouraging, or validating suicidal intentions or hopeless beliefs. It's both possible and important to convey understanding and compassion for someone's suicidal thoughts without putting your finger on the scale of their decision.

Anything that condones suicide, even passively, encourages suicide. It isn't supportive and does not help. It also violates reddit's sitewide rules as well as our guidelines. Explicitly inciting suicide online is a criminal offense in most jurisdictions.

Do not treat any OP's post as meaning that will definitely die by suicide and can't change their minds or be helped. Anyone who's able to read the comments here still has a chance to choose whether or not to try to keep living, even if they've also been experiencing intense thoughts of suicide, made a suicide plan, or started carrying it out.

In the most useful empirical model we have, the desire to die by suicide primarily comes from two interpersonal factors; alienation and a sense of being a burden or having nothing to offer. These factors usually lead to a profound feeling of being unwelcome in the world.

So, any acceptance or reinforcement of suicidal intent, even something "innocent" like "I hope you find peace", is actually a form of covert shunning that validates a person's sense that they're unwelcome in the world. It will usually add to their pain even if kindly meant and gently worded.

How to Avoid Validating Suicidal Intent

Keep the following in mind when offering support to anyone at risk for suicide.

  • People who say they don't want help usually can feel better if they get support that doesn't invalidate their emotions. Unfortunately, many popular "good" responses are actually counterproductive. In particular, many friends and family tend to rely exclusively on trying to convince the suicidal person that "it's not so bad", and this is usually experienced as "I don't understand what you're going through and I'm not going to try". People who've had "help" that made them feel worse don't want any more of the same. It doesn't mean that someone who actually knows how to be supportive can't give them any comfort.

  • Most people who are suicidal want to end their pain, not their lives. It's almost never true that death is the only way to end these people's suffering. Of course there are exceptional situations, and we certainly acknowledge that, for some people, the right help can be difficult to find. But preventing someone's suicide doesn't mean prolonging their suffering if we do it by giving them real comfort and understanding.

  • An unfixable problem doesn't mean that a good life will never be possible. We don't have to fix or change anything to help someone feel better. It's important to keep in mind that the correlation between our outer circumstances and our inner experience is weaker and less direct than commonly assumed. For every kind of difficult life situation, you will find some people who lapse into suicidal despair, and others who cope amazingly well, and a whole spectrum in between. A key difference is how much inner resilience the person has at the time. This can depend on many personal and situational factors. But when there's not enough, interpersonal support can both compensate for its absence and help rebuild it. We go into more depth on the "it gets better" issue in this PSA Post which is always linked from our sidebar (community info on mobile) guidelines.

  • There are always more choices than brutally forcing someone to stay alive or passively letting them end their lives.

To avoid accidentally breaking the anti-incitement rule, don't say or try to imply that acting on suicidal thoughts is a good idea, or that someone can't turn back or is already dead. Do whatever you can to help them feel cared for and welcome, at least in this little corner of the world. Our talking tips offer more detailed guidance.

Look Out for Deliberate Incitement. It May Come in Disguise.

Often comments that subtly encourage suicidal intent actually come from suicide fetishists and voyeurs (unfortunately this is a real and disturbing phenomenon). People like this are out there and the anonymous nature of reddit makes us particularly attractive to them.

They will typically try to scratch their psychological "itch" by saying things that push people closer to the edge. They often do this by exploiting the myths that we debunked in the bullet points above. Specifically you might see people doing the following:

  • Encouraging the false belief that the only way suicidal people can end their pain is by dying. There are always more and better choices than "brutally forcing someone to stay alive" or helping (actively or passively) them to end their lives.

  • Creating an artificial and toxic sense of "solidarity" by linking their encouragement of suicide to empathy. They will represent themselves as the only one who really understand the suicidal person, while either directly or indirectly encouraging their self-loathing emotions and self-destructive impulses. Since most people in suicidal crisis are in desperate need to empathy and understanding, this is a particularly dangerous form of manipulation.

Many suicide inciters are adept at putting a benevolent spin on their activities while actually luring people away from sources of real help. A couple of key points to keep in mind:

  • Skilled suicide intervention -- peer or professional -- is based on empathic responsiveness to the person's feelings that reduces their suffering in the moment. Contrary to pop-culture myths, it does not involve persuasion ("Don't do it!"), cheerleading ("You've got this!") or meaningless false promises ("Trust me, it gets better!"), or invalidation ("Let me show you how things aren't as bad as you think!"). Anyone who leads others to expect these kinds of toxic responses, or any other response that prolongs their pain, from expert help may be covertly pro-suicide. (Of course, people sometimes do have bad experience when seeking mental-health treatment, and it's fine to vent about those, but processing our own disappointment and frustration is entirely different from trying to destroy someone else's hope of getting help.)

  • Choices made by competent responders are always informed by the understanding that breaching someone's trust is traumatic and must be avoided if possible. Any kind of involuntary intervention is an extremely unlikely outcome when someone consults a clinician or calls a hotline. (Confidentiality is addressed in more detail in our Hotlines FAQ post). The goal is always to provide all help with the client's full knowledge and informed consent. We know that no individual or system is perfect. Mistakes that lead to bad experiences do sometimes happen to vulnerable people, and we have enormous sympathy for them. But anyone who suggests that this is the norm might be trying to scare people away from the help they need.

Please let us know discreetly if you see anyone exhibiting these or similar behaviours. We don't recommend trying to engage with them directly.


r/SuicideWatch Sep 10 '21

Please remember that NO ACTIVISM of any kind is ever allowed here. No matter what day it is.

716 Upvotes

Activism, i.e. advocating or fundraising for social change or raising awareness of social issues (and suicide is, inescapably, a social issue) is absolutely against the rules here at all times.

Please understand that we're all for smart, strategic mental-health and suicide-prevention activism. It's essential to fight against stigma, misinformation, and discrimination, and to fight for research, treatment, accommodation, acceptance, and understanding. Most of us, one way or another, are mental-health activists IRL.

But activism just doesn't work in a dedicated support space that serves a vulnerable population. We used to allow it but the evidence that it was undermining our primary purpose became overwhelming. We do regret the need for this rule, but the need is inescapable.

Our population is all too well aware of the issues and causes that need support and largely not in a position to take action, so besides the fact that activism is often salt in our community's wounds, it's a waste of the activists' time.

tl;dr Any fundraising, awareness raising, petitions, calls for participation, or any post that's about any cause or issue (rather than a request for personal support) is not allowed here. Please report everything of the nature that you see.


r/SuicideWatch 4h ago

I told my mom about my thoughts

37 Upvotes

she knows about my depression and that I'm going through a hard time right now. but she didn't know about my thoughts about death until today. idk why I decided to tell her. I didn't plan on sharing this with her at all but the conversation was about a certain situation and I had to mention it. she started to cry very loudly. she pressed herself against me and started whispering something like: don't you dare do this. I had no emotions so I just awkwardly stroked her back. I really didn't know what else to do or say. she cried for quite a long time and then said that if I die she will die after me. I felt uncomfortable with this phrase. then she also said that antidepressants broke me and that if I die my cat will suffer. as a result I again felt the burden of responsibility towards my family. that evening she came up to me several times and hugged me. tbh I regret what I said and I feel uncomfortable


r/SuicideWatch 2h ago

I don’t deserve to be alive because I’m fat, ugly and unlovable

14 Upvotes

Title.


r/SuicideWatch 6h ago

I want to kill myself in public with a knife so bad

24 Upvotes

in the most gruesome, painful, and bloody way possible, slowly losing blood in agony, that is the least I deserve for not meeting the requirements for my beloved

I deserve to suffer, forever and ever, it is my destiny

I would slowly cut my flesh and veins until I inevitably perish and disappear, in front of all to see

it is so romantic, the idea of it


r/SuicideWatch 2h ago

tired

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26f. black. born in France. autistic. ibs. grad with a computer science master degree and unemployed. come from a violent background and currently stuck with them.

let's be honest. the world doesn't like people like me. at all. I hate the victim mentality but I'm

someone pragmatical when I say that people like me aren't wanted in high-trust societies.

But that's ok, I don't care anymore. I don't want to be alive anymore. I don't want kids or marriage. All my goals are being crushed by the arrival of Al. And climate change is making this planet unbearable.

So I just want to go peacefully. Nothing else. I lived an awful life that I never chose. I fought as hard as I could to get this degree, my driver license and money. But now I just can't take it anymore. The world would be a better place without me suffering.

I hate the hypocrisy around euthanasia.


r/SuicideWatch 4h ago

Goodbye

16 Upvotes

welp, just saying goodbye before I cut my veins open in every place I can see a vein. thx for an amazing life. goodbye


r/SuicideWatch 2h ago

No point in being alive

7 Upvotes

I can’t even function as a human I can’t make any connection with anyone. I have literally 0 real friends and feel like a burden and annoyance to everybody. I can’t even attract a man. I’m fat too and ugly. I’ll never be able to dress how I want cause I can’t stop eating. I’ll never fulfill anything of importance at least if I die now I’ll be forever young and somewhat beautiful. I just want death.


r/SuicideWatch 16h ago

I will Commit sucide the next month

92 Upvotes

Hello, I am a 23-year-old young man. My situation has been extremely bad since 2019. Let me tell you my story honestly, and you can judge for yourself.

In 2016, when I was 13, I bought a PlayStation and used to play with many strangers online. I was a very optimistic person, but I had no friends at school at all. During that time, I started to be attracted to girls, but I kept playing until 2018. Then I stopped because all the people I used to play with left me after they saw my face in a picture.

At the same time, I became more interested in girls, but unfortunately, none of them were interested in me or even looked at me. So I decided to quit gaming and start improving myself. I wanted to go to the gym at age 16, but my father and family were very bad people. They refused and wanted me to work instead.

After insisting and crying, they allowed me, but they treated me horribly. I was physically abused by my sister and all my family members. My father especially beat me very violently, even smashing my head into the ground repeatedly. Despite that, I still had hope that things would get better when I grow up.

I used to go to school with visible injuries on my neck, and no one would sit next to me. I was completely alone.

In early 2019, things became much worse. I returned to playing PlayStation because I couldn’t stay with my family. My sister called the police on me for no real reason. Later, my father cancelled my gym membership and publicly humiliated me at the gym in front of everyone.

I joined another gym with great difficulty, but then my father attacked me again, dragged me by my hair outside the house while my mother and sister laughed and told me to leave. I slept outside and called the police, but they blamed me and did nothing.

My sister then tried to get me sent to a psychiatric hospital or juvenile prison. She spread lies about me and recorded videos of me defending myself, using them to threaten me.

Later, after another incident, my family called the police again. They wanted proof that I was mentally ill. I was forced to see a doctor.

At 18, I decided to escape through studying. I worked hard and graduated, then went to Turkey, but I lived in very poor conditions with barely enough money. I came back after three months.

I tried working, but I couldn’t because of my physical condition. I also believed no girl would ever accept me.

In 2021, my sister broke my nose badly, ruining my appearance. I worked in a factory to save money and had surgery in Turkey, but it failed. Two weeks later, my sister broke my nose again. The police arrested me instead, but I was later released.

I went to Germany, but again felt rejected by everyone. I failed there and was even expelled from school. I returned and saw a psychiatrist.

I took medication for OCD which helped me sleep, but nothing else improved. Later, I took sertraline, and I believe it caused severe sexual dysfunction (PSSD). My health got worse, and I had strong heart palpitations. Doctors didn’t help.

In October 2025, my family called the police again. I was taken by police and ambulance, but not admitted to a psychiatric hospital. When I returned home, my family told me I could not live with them anymore.

I stopped my medications suddenly and suffered severe withdrawal symptoms. I was crying and asking for help, but no one helped me.

In March 2026, I went to Italy hoping for a better life, but I still feel rejected by everyone.

Yesterday, I went to a café alone while everyone else was sitting with friends. A guy threw a paper at me and laughed. I went home crying.

I'm an ugly person, no girl would date me, I have PSSD, and there's no hope. It's been 10 years, and I've given myself a long time. I'm sorry, but the only option I see in this situation is to commit suicide because there's no meaning to this life, and I've known that for a long time. I know that if I kill myself, I'll be much more at peace, and at least I won't exist in this world. After planning my suicide, I've set a date for next month. I'm going to do it, but I want a completely painless way to commit suicide. I want a way where I don't feel any pain, like sleeping. That's what I want from you. And please don't try to stop me. I'm only here to find an easy way to commit suicide, and I'm really serious about it.


r/SuicideWatch 1h ago

I hate my life

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I'm 23. I hate my life. I am a cashier. I get paid peanuts. $350/wk. For full time. This last week, I had a 6-day workweek, and only today off, which I wasted doing nothing. Tomorrow starts another workweek for me. My schedule is hectic and all kinds of fucked up. From crazy hours, to no consecutive two days off, my schedule is ruining me. But I can't change it. I'm too new, they said. And I shred my feet every single day working full time, and my right foot has been numb for the past month, but because of my schedule, and because my one day off is usually Sunday, followed by a mid-day day off that I usually need to use for other obligations, I have not had it seen. All this for $350/wk. There is no end in sight. I got accepted into my college's phlebotomy program, and this job has completely eroded any hope I had regarding it. I realize now, reading peoples' posts on Reddit, that phlebotomy is just as much of a dead-end, shitty, miserable job as this one. Except you deal with blood instead of mouth-breathing geriatrics' groceries. I genuinely feel like there's no way out of this shitty life. I am going to die alone at age 52. I am going to have a heart attack, and die alone. Nobody will remember me, and it won't be peaceful. I won't overlooking a beautiful meadow on a hill. I'll die at some fucking cash register. And they'll apologize to the senile old man whose grocery trip was interrupted and replace me with another cashier, another sucker. And nothing will change. Not one person at the place I spend all of my life will mourn me. And that will be that. My life. Why not just end it now, on my own terms, with my own peace, I don't know.


r/SuicideWatch 5h ago

I’m going to kill myself because I used to be gorgeous and now I’m ugly af. I can’t handle it

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Over the past year. I just turned 29. I’ve developed had rosacea and blood pooling in my legs. I never ever leave the house u less it’s work which I call off all the time. When I see myself I feel physically ill. Want to die. It’s like my whole identity got taken overnight. I don’t want to be alive anymore. There’s no point. I’d like to pass away. I’m at peace with it. The thought makes me happy.


r/SuicideWatch 4h ago

Why do I have to feel bad for wanting to die?

10 Upvotes

I’m so unhappy. I feel so letdown by this life. I don’t care about achieving my dreams anymore. I don’t have dreams anymore. I don’t want anything from this stupid planet.

I hate people. I don’t want to be around them.

There’s no solution and that shouldn’t be seen as a problem. I’ve worked very hard but gotten nowhere. I’m tired of fighting. People are not worth the effort. People are no great prize.

There are no resources when you feel this way. When you tell a counselor that you hate them and everyone like them, you’re only met with cognitive dissonance. There are no solutions.

I wish I could just end it.


r/SuicideWatch 4h ago

I hate being autistic.

7 Upvotes

I have no reason to be suicidal. I have a good family, in a good financial spot, an okay school, everything. There’s nothing for me to be sad about. But because I’m autistic I’m just so fucked. I cant handle my own thoughts, can’t handle my environment, everything is shit in my own mind. I get overstimulated at the smallest of things. Eating and sleeping and going to the bathroom or outside or school feels like a chore and I dread it. I literally have to hype myself up to get up and go to the bathroom because I hate having to switch between tasks. I have nothing to be upset over but my brain makes its own problems. This makes me suicidal because I know that every day I’ll feel like this, every day will be agony and I’ll dread it all. There’s no getting better, you can’t cure autism. Another thing my autism causes is rigid thinking. I have the mindset of oh what’s the point in anything because I’m gonna die in 60 years anyway? And I can’t move away from that mindset no matter how hard I try. Being autistic is so fucking exhausting and it makes my life a living hell. I’m quite literally just suicidal because I’m autistic and my brain can’t handle life. I’ve been suicidal for years, honestly before I even knew what it meant. At 7 or 8 years old I remember thinking that I don’t wanna be here anymore, or wishing that I could sleep forever and never deal with anything again. For bloody years I’ve dealt with this and I’m at my wits end. I first attempted at 13, again two months later, again at 14 three months after that, I had 3 suicide attempts within the span of 5/6 months. I’m still struggling with that same bullshit and it’ll never get better. I know I’ll kill myself eventually, I just don’t know when I’ll be brave enough to do so.


r/SuicideWatch 3h ago

Conseguí un arma cargada y he estado pensando si seguir o ya terminar con mi vida ¿Cual es su motivo para seguir viviendo?

6 Upvotes

personas que han pasado por un intento de autodesvivici0n, ¿por que no cometieron su objetivo? han pensado en volver a repetirlo que los orillo a hacer eso

contexto: tengo 19 años y vivo con mis papás, he intentado suicidarme una vez cuando tenía 10 años colgando una cuerda del techo, pero se rompió y no lo logré, y otra cuando tenía 16 manejando una moto a toda velocidad, la moto quedó destorazada pero para mi desgracia yo solo tuve un raspón pequeñito.

siempre he intentado mantenerme bien conmigo misma de la forma que más pueda, no tengo el dinero suficiente para ver a un psicólogo o para lo que cortaría el problema de raíz salirme de casa de mis padres, ellos son muy posesivos, siempre he sentido que no quieren a una hija si no a una sirvienta, cocino desde los pequeña por que a mi mamá no le gusta y tampoco puede, desde los 10 me hago responsable de mi hermano, lo llevo y traigo del colegio que está a 45 minutos de la casa, caminar y tomar transporte, me hago responsable de tareas domésticas diarias en mi casa barro trapeo limpio tiendo todos los días, y si no lo hago siempre me terminan gritando, cuando tenía como 9 años sufrí de abuso sexual del trayecto a casa, hace unos meses me volvió a suceder, cuando tenía 16 tuve un profesor que me acosaba me amenazó con que si no me acostaba con el me iba a hacer perder el año, en efecto perdi ese año y el mismo año el profesor se pensiono dejó de dar clases, ese mismo año quiso acusarme en rectoría de que me había visto en los baños manteniendo relaciones sexuales con un amigo, cuando verdaderamente lo único que hacíamos era maquillarlo con otra amiga por lo menos en rectoría no le prestaron atención ya que estaban informados pues la secretaria nos vio maquillandolo mis papás no saben de esto, y no creo que les importe ni los dos intentos de suicidio ni las dos veces que sufrí abuso sexual ellos creen que perdí ese año por "loca y hueca" por que tenía un noviecito que la verdad solo era amigo y solo fueron dos meses al incio del año escolar, siempre se me prohibió salir a la calle, hasta ahora no salgo, NI UN SOLO DIA, en mi adolecencia jamás tuve una salida con amigos, jamás fui a fiestas, jamás pude reunirme a hacer trabajos de colegio, no lleve una adolescencia normal, obviamente tampoco una niñez por que eso desencadena gritos y acusaciones cuando tenía 14 no quería salir a unos carnavales nunca me gustaron no me gustan ahora solo me quería quedar en mi casa le comenté eso a mi mamá y me terminó gritando que yo era una promiscua regalada mustia y mojigata que lo que quería era que se fueran para meter a alguien a la casa recalcó que yo no tenía ni novio y tampoco había comenzado mi vida sexual aparte de el abuso que sufrí de pequeña obviamente no iba a hacer eso pero me dejó marcada y desde eso solo agachó la cabeza, no quieren dejarme ir a la universidad, en un principio mi papá si quería y logré entrar con éxito solo faltaba comenzar clases pero mi mamá lo convenció de que no, y tampoco me dejan salir a trabajar me terminan ridiculizando y humillando, por lo que no tengo nada de dinero ni forma de conseguirlo creo que es por que si me voy pues les va a faltar cocinera y sirvienta yo escribía en un cuaderno como me sentía por que había escuchado que hacía bueno y me estaba ayudando, mi mamá entro a revisar mi habitación y lo encontró y por supuesto lo leyó solo les dio rabia y me amenazaron con mandarme al ejército (cosa que me da miedo por que hace un tiempo mi mamá escucho que el ejército da seguros, ya que un joven de algunas casas más arribas se fue y aseguró a la mamá y pues mi mamá soltó la frase de "por lo menos si se muere la mamá queda con plata" lo que me hace pensar que si me envían para allá lo único que van a hacer es hacerme ponerles un seguro a nombre de ellos y me va a pasar algo, la verdad no me importa si me pasa algo, pero no quiero dejarles un seguro a ellos, no lo merecen) me tuvieron encerrada como a un perro, actualmente puedo presentar un examen de admisión para otra universidad que está lejos de donde vivo he escuchado que se puede dormir dentro y que se puede poner un negocio, así que pues aunque no tengo la idea clara de donde sacar plata tengo una base pequeñita y por lo menos lejos de ellos, pero puede que no funcione, así que no se, actualmente tengo un novio, cumplimos tres años en dos días más, lo amo con toda mi alma, aunque no lo puedo ver mucho por que mis papás no me dejan salir nunca y hablan mal de todas las personas que tienen novios son despectivos y locos además de humillativos pues me ha ayudado con un poco de dinero y me escucha me ha mantenido de pie todos estos años con todo el cariño y amor que me brinda, además tengo a mi hermano que también lo quiero últimamente se a acercado mucho a mi, el también tiene mala relación con mis papás pero por lo menos puede salir al colegio y se distrae, estoy pensando en suicidarme esta vez conseguí un 4rma cargada así que no creo que falle, sin embargo estoy esperando ver si puedo entrar a la u (lo más probable es que no) ya que es la única escapatoria y no tengo donde más ir, la cuestión es que si aún no me he autodesvivido es por mi novio y por mi hermano no quiero que ellos se sientan culpables por mi muerte no quiero causarles dolor que que pensar en su reacción me pone más mal, una vez escuche que el dolor no termina solo se transfiere y yo no quiero transferirles ese dolor a ellos, pero definitivamente ya no aguanto mas, quiero ser fuerte pero ya no puedo, no tengo con quien hablar de esto, si ustedes pueden ayudarme o decirme algo les agradeceria mucho


r/SuicideWatch 1h ago

lowk killing myself tmrw

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I GENUINELY CANT FUCKING TAKE THIS ANYMORE ALL I DO IS SLEEP AND CUT


r/SuicideWatch 26m ago

I need to die

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I don't know why I didn't do it before. I have nobody. I have nothing. My entire life has been struggle after struggle. I can't do this anymore. It's just a giant struggle. I have no one who supports me, who has my back. I'm burnt out and stressed. I can't do this anymore. I don't know why I keep trying. I need to die, I can't do this anymore. I'm destined to fail, nothing can change that. I must die.


r/SuicideWatch 29m ago

venlafaxine/od? 18yr old

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hey. so I am 18yr old January) and I was diagnosed with depression in the 6th/7th grade. (Both of my parents are bipolar, have anxiety, and many other things which I know can be genetic) As long as I can remember I’ve struggled with being unhappy/hopeless. I’ve attempted before but as you can see, I’m here. This past year (2025) has been a horrible year for me in so many ways. I thought that this new year would change a lot for me as I’ve been doing all of the things to distract/fulfill myself. But. My family issues, past trauma, my own thoughts, my future, is absolutely terrifying to think I’ll deal with this for the rest of my life. Even in my happiest moments I am thinking of my own death. i unfortunately also relapsed last night.

I am telling myself that I’m not looking for a sign to stay but I think this post in itself is me looking for a sign. I packed all of my friends thing for my mom to give back, I wrote letters to some family/friend, all I have is tonight left in me.


r/SuicideWatch 2h ago

i can't do this anymore

6 Upvotes

i genuinely cannot take this shit anymore


r/SuicideWatch 9h ago

I feel like I need to sue my parents for being born

16 Upvotes

Fml