Tips for Not Committing Suicide 1. Consider other people
This saved my ass many times, but only because I have a visceral sense of what grief does to people. You could hurt the people around you so bad, they could be in even worse pain than you are now. And they would know you did it on purpose because you didn't care enough about them not to. Sounds harsh, but reminding myself of that has kept me alive. My sister died when I was a teenager. Not only did I have to grapple with her death, which kickstarted bipolar+ etc that went undiagnosed for years, but I saw my mom grieving. You can't Even know. Grieving parents are ...the pain of it is incomparable. Plus, my mom has major depression and anxiety, which was a decade from being diagnosed. Imagine your death could cause this. That one death rippled out waves of damage at her school, blurring the lives of her friends and altering their trajectories. Doesn't matter how bad you want to check out. Doesn't give you the right to inflict that level of trauma on others. On the other hand, living through this gives you the potential to keep saving lives. You failed an exam? The world isn't going to end, even if you have to do a medical withdrawal and take a year off. (She said from experience.) Solutions always exist. @tylersoldtweets