I’ve noticed a disturbing increase in our users discussing attempting/pondering suicide. It’s gotten to the point where it’s nearly a daily occurrence to see a new user post that they are considering killing themselves. While I’m not one to ascertain the veracity of these claims, I can state that regardless of whether or not there’s truth behind them, they’re very disturbing. Because of this, I find it important to post the following: -------- So, you’ve said you want to kill yourself or that you tried to kill yourself. — Scenario 1: You’re being honest and have actually pondered or attempted suicide. Even if you think you’re “past it”, you should seek outside help. This means help from someone licensed to work with situations like these: a social worker, a psychiatrist, what have you. This does not mean only ask your wikiHow friends about what to do. If cost is a concern, there are free and very cheap therapy programs available in most areas that can be found with a quick Google search. — Scenario 2: You are not being honest and have not seriously pondered or attempted suicide. Besides the moral qualms in this situation, there are other issues at hand potentially. Though it’s far less urgent, you probably should still seek outside help of some kind if you find this to be an appropriate way to express your emotions and conduct yourself.
I will say, that I notice my thread months ago was kind of the first one to claim “Suicide”. I know others, like Maddie have needed support, however, it’s funny how in one night, about 3 users say they’re suicidal and one makes a thread. I was taught to take every suicide threat seriously, real or not, and I of course do. However, if you’re posting just to “go along with the crowd” and you don’t need *that* much help, please look up some people to go to and, like Metsguy said, get help. wikiHow doesn’t have professional phycologists (wait…I forgot what degree Neil has…), and we can’t provide the kind of comfort a trained person can. It is for your own good, and I’m sorry I even started this thing. Yes, I’m kinda doing better, compared to what I was. And to anyone with depression/suicidal thoughts, I am still depressed, even though it doesn’t show. I have the help of an amazing community, however, I need more help. From someone who’s trained, who knows what to do, etc… And it’s okay to say you need help - It means you’re strong and smart, and you need to be smart enough to know where to go to get help. http://crisischat.org
http://imalive.org
And, before you say “CAN IT GET ANY WORSE?”, think about those poor people in other countries, starving to death. In war, prostitutes, poverty…All of the things you don’t have. We just had Thanksgiving. Sometimes you don’t know what you have, because you take it for granted. If you were in the shoes of the people living in dirt huts every day, being beat to death, or seeing your friends/family dying, it shows how much you take your life for granted. There’s someone out there in worse condition than you. And if those people could talk to you, they’d want your life over theirs anytime. But, do they say that? No. They know what they have: Life. It’s truly a gift, and not something to be thrown away. Sorry for my speech.
And once again, I’m sorry my original thread started this. June Days
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Thanks for addressing this, Mike. It’s not only disturbing, but also rather upsetting to see such a growing number of contributors (if all of the claims are honest - not saying they aren’t) depressed and tragically, contemplating suicide. If that is the case, please take to heart and keep in mind some of the suggestions offered above, and understand that while we can help talk you through things as friends, only a professional can and should be providing professional support on such a serious matter.
While not a professional’s opinion, there we do have a link, on how to avoid committing suicide: http://www.wikihow.com/Avoid-Committing-Suicide
Err… Nothing .-. ( Curse my " Help): " forum )
I didn’t mean funny as in *haha*, I meant funny as in (it’s okay to get your feelings out to the community, I did that once too
), it seemed a little over the top. Especially if you skip depression and not know what it is, and suddenly say you want to die. It’s not a bad thing to now know what depression is, but I would do a little research (what this *thing* was, what I could do to get rid of it, etc.)before I claimed I wanted to die.June Days
Going for a Masters in Behavioural Psychology
These claims are all very disturbing as Mike said. But as June said, they cannot be discounted as false whether or not it’s true for some of them. If you do not consider suicide, PLEASE do not cause a panic with all of your wikiHow friends by posting it. If you do consider it, it is nice to confide in your online friends because you never know who can help, but do try to seek professional help.
I saw one, it was rather disturbing. Nothing is worth taking your life, yet, some think it is absolutely necessary to take their lives, when really it could have been fixed.
Please do not bump old threads. If you’re confused in what bumping is, it is posting on a thread that’s “died” out. You can usually tell if the time the last person posted is more than a week. If you have to search by using the pages and post, then it’s usually not supposed to be posted in. (; Closing. June Days
