Discussion Does suicidality go away?

[restingplace]

Do you think that if you recover over time your suicidality goes away or is it just hidden underneath the new found "happiness" or "hope"?

 

[EvisceratedJester]

For some people, it does go away completely. Hasn't yet for me though, lol. There have been periods where my suicidal ideation calmed down but it always comes back. I doubt that it will ever truly go away but I don't really care anymore. It's become apart of me at this point.

 

[leaftomb]

That's honestly something I wonder about a lot when I think about recovery. For me it kinda feels like, if I thought something once, I won't get it out of my head. It does go away for some periods of time tho, but never long. I guess maybe if you really find worth in your life somehow, it could go away, but I'm not entirely sure about it

 

[dinosavr]

I used to believe so, but for now I think that if you went too far with your suicidality, it will never leave you. The only thing that maybe could change is your approach to it.

 

[Topacio]

No... it is always there. It always comes back. I wish he would make up his mind and finish the job at once.

 

[Trismegistus_13]

Statistically, it goes away for most people. Proportionally, few people who experience depression end up killing themselves. I don't know if people really forget what it feels like to be suicidal, though.

 

[kunikuzushi]

If it goes away then I would just be delusional. My suicidality is based on the decision that I don't want to live suffering in this world. And there's no way to avoid suffering. So the only option is don't exist

 

[Praestat_Mori]

It depends on what caused suicidality and for how long we already are suicidal. Suicidal thoughts can vanish in cases where they are a result of external circumstances if those circumstances change but the longer we suffer under (unbearable) circumstances the harder it will be to get rid of them completely.

In my case, ik what makes me suicidal but as things calmed down I'm currently almost not suicidal at all. However, if my situation changes in a negative way I'm pretty sure that I gonna be actively suicidal immediately.

Whether I'm suicidal or not, I see suicide as an option to escape a life we don't want to live. From this point of view, it just needs a trigger that makes me suicidal.

 

[lostintheloop]

It really depends . Some people will just go through an acute period of it and never again others it will come and go . Some will flit between active and passive thoughts. Others it will always be in the background .
There's no really simple answer as depends.
I do think for some people it genuinely does disappear. But I think even for some who recover, they still get them occasionally but they learn to manage them. When the good outweighs the bad I guess their thoughts arent as powerful and longlasting maybe

For me it's never really gone away but there's been worse and better periods. Sometimes it's just their in the background but in recent years it's more consuming, always planning and thinking about it

 

[-nobodyknows-]

In my case, I've been explicitly told by multiple people that it probably won't.

 

[FuneralCry]

Not for me as I don't wish to exist, I'm not meant for existing, I don't see existing as something desirable. Human existence to me is the most futile and torturous burden, I don't have any interest in suffering for decades just to be tormented by old age and die anyway. My wish to die is a result of not wanting to suffer and there is no limit as to how much one can suffer in this existence, for me existence itself is the problem. I personally find comfort in death, I've only ever wished for eternal nothingness.