Discussion Do you have anyone irl with whom you can talk about your suicidal thoughts?

[LonelyForest]

As the title says. Personally, I don't have anyone I can be completely honest with about my suicidal thoughts. I've been struggling with serious suicidal thoughts since September 2025. Since then, I've made two sloppy attempts, both of which my family found out about. What followed were tears and emotional blackmail.

I live in Pakistan, where suicide is an extreme taboo. So it was incredibly difficult to talk to them about what I was feeling, but eventually I did. Opening up got me into therapy. However, it didn't help at all. I found it strange that my therapist also told me not to share my suicidal thoughts with my family, so I don't even know what to make of that. Over time, I started faking progress with my therapist because everyone kept asking, "Why aren't you getting better with therapy?" I don't know what they expected. Like I'd magically be fine after a couple of months? So I faked my progress. Honestly, I don't feel bad about it. I wasn't making any progress with him anyway.

So now I honestly don't have anyone in real life I can share my true suicidal thoughts with. Like having someone you can just tell, "I'm thinking about this method to die," and so on. I know a person like that may never exist. Someone who can actually listen to you talk about killing yourself without panicking. But I really wish there was. When I feel a deep need to share these thoughts, I turn to AI, but it feels so fake. They always bombard you with emergency helpline numbers. Do you have anyone IRL you can openly share your suicidal thoughts with?

 

[PainThreshold]

No. They'll hit you with some gratitude and religious bullshit, and talk about how much other people have it worse and how their struggles are "real" struggles whereas you're basically an attention seeking whore.

 

[Forveleth]

I have told a few people IRL I am suicidal. The response has been either silence or "please no, you mean so much to me". So really not productive. I should have kept my mouth shut.

 

[deadpornstarr!]

they almost all know , and its always just the usual shallow things about how they want me to stay and such . granted it usually comes out as a joke from me , im kind of bad at being sad about it ... i think its a defense mechanism thing , but i usually laugh about it :p

ive attempted before , and the family i was around for that seems to've forgotten about it already because theyre back to treating me like garbo again -v-

forveleth , i shoulda kept my maw shut too .

 

[itsgone2]

How can you? In many places they can call police who will take you to emergency room. Therapist can do the same. So if you don't want that you just have things like this site. Which is good at least a place to get support. But irl is very difficult

 

[LonelyForest]

No. They'll hit you with some gratitude and religious bullshit, and talk about how much other people have it worse and how their struggles are "real" struggles whereas you're basically an attention seeking whore.

Honestly, I don't understand what people wish to accomplish when they compare your struggles to those who have it far worse than you. Like, it never makes things better. All I think at that moment is that those who have it worse than me should have ctb even before me.

 

[Praestat_Mori]

No. Most people irl cannot understand it anyway.

 

[deadpornstarr!]

Honestly, I don't understand what people wish to accomplish when they compare your struggles to those who have it far worse than you. Like, it never makes things better. All I think at that moment is that those who have it worse than me should have ctb even before me.

all i think is that im a little pathetic bitch for being so weak to my problems :p yeah... its such a shitty thing to hear from people ...

How can you? In many places they can call police who will take you to emergency room. Therapist can do the same. So if you don't want that you just have things like this site. Which is good at least a place to get support. But irl is very difficult

this might be a hot take here but i atleast somewhat enjoyed my experience in a mental hospital. the admission was against my consent , and i was a child at the time , but there was something nice about all my responsibilities and attachments fading and the entire focus was just on "we gotta make this dork happy again!" ... not that it worked , but for a little while i actually felt cared about , for like the first time in my life. plus there were a lot of other kids there who understood how i felt and felt real to talk to ... kind of like how this place is. honest and relatable about it all.

(i met a lot of fellow transgender kids there too ... which is kind of sad if you think about it for too long ... but that was nice i suppose ...)

 

[caramelpudding]

No, I don't but I really wish there would be someone to understand that something doesn't really get better.

but in perspective if someone come up to me and said they wanted to ctb I would be concerned and said the something to cheer them up and will try to get them help… idk it would be my first instinct to help someone I love and care for

But I don't want that with myself. I want myself gone and so I get what you mean having someone to talk to without getting judged and talk to about suicidal thoughts would be nearly impossible irl.

Still a very confusing thought for me as I couldn't bear to see my loved ones think like myself. But I hope you would find that person that you can talk to whatever you feel. Hugs.

 

[Fadenself00_]

Semi-ish..

The main caveat is me needing to be very careful with my words and reasoning.
This is because suicide is technically a fundamental right here (Germany), but it is opposed by a mental health act, where they are allowed to hospitalize you, if they are unsure about you being mentally capable/not in a "crisis".. This + me being alone and having nobody who is always there to support me irl (quite the opposite, taking my family into account), you're effectively in a similar boat like a politically oppressed group would be - the system watching everything you say, ready to swiftly strike and lock you up under the umbrella of "help".

Nobody cares about the psychological aspect of all of this on-top, and how under pressure, you're obviously extremely stressed-out/frightened, when the police and/or a judge show up.
This entire procedure is ultra-ableistic/pro-life and it is incredibly hard to resist; you have to turn lawyer-speak-mode essentially, to have a chance at them respecting your rights... There is near-zero humanity in any of this

 

[Thanatos.br]

No, when I met my best friend 17 years ago we used to talk about this, he was also depressed and thought about suicide sometimes, so we could talk openly, but he got better, become christian and then a pastor lol, so i'd rather not talk to him about this anymore, but he knows I still want to die.