Discussion How did your family and friends treat you after your suicide attempt?

[Boudika]

This puzzles me because I myself am afraid of CTB for this very reason. What if I survive and everyone laughs at me? Or worse - everyone will start treating me like a porcelain doll and I will lose the remnants of freedom I have. To the people who didn't make it to CTB - what was the reaction of your family and those around you? How are they treating you now?

 

[SpeedingThroughLife]

My family took great care of me and reminded me that they loved me everyday when I was in hospital.

 

[Worndown]

Do your research first and only have one attempt. Success should be your concern, not what to do when you fail. This should be a goal oriented act.

 

[lionetta12]

This puzzles me because I myself am afraid of CTB for this very reason. What if I survive and everyone laughs at me? Or worse - everyone will start treating me like a porcelain doll and I will lose the remnants of freedom I have. To the people who didn't make it to CTB - what was the reaction of your family and those around you? How are they treating you now?

Nobody cares after my attempts, nor do they prior.

 

[tora]

my parents and twin were really supportive, they visited everyday and came to family therapy and were very involved in my recovery. the rest of my family didn't visit me or call me or text me or anything as for my friends, one of them ghosted me after I sent her a goodbye text the night of my attempt and the other two abandoned me a couple months after

 

[LikeAPendulum]

i only have my mother as my closest company. When I chickened out at 14, contempt is what she gave. Kept telling me therapy is a scam. Few years after she cracked some jokes about my desire to hang. I'll admit, i chuckled.

 

[front of me]

They care but over time they forget Like the one who hits you and then tries to ask for forgiveness from you, what is the point!? After heartache and sadness

 

[snowlance]

My grandma kinda ignores it, so does my cousin. My dad cried but now he's just quiet and my mom got really upset.

 

[unique snowflake]

I think they don't really give a fuck tho.

 

[Qwertygamma276]

my family treated me like i was 5 again. i was 12 tho so i kinda get it. my second attempt at 16 was treated as something deeply selfish and secret.

 

[Allaboutit]

This puzzles me because I myself am afraid of CTB for this very reason. What if I survive and everyone laughs at me? Or worse - everyone will start treating me like a porcelain doll and I will lose the remnants of freedom I have. To the people who didn't make it to CTB - what was the reaction of your family and those around you? How are they treating you now?

My family hardly acknowledged it. My mom called me in hospital to check on me and gave minimal support upon my release but my siblings didn't seem to bat an eye. I assume they didnt believe it was a serious attempt. All be it, it was ill planed. My family acted in the same way they always act dismissive and callous. Maybe they would have cared if I'd been successful.

 

[Borderline]

They treated me like nothing had happened.

 

[TheMetalhead]

Only my parents and a few aunts along with my friends know.
My parents treated me as if I were a teenager again, staying outside after 8 pm? No no no. Always getting class what Im doing and where I am. But after a year, they still treat me like they used before my attempt. Like worthless shit. My friends on the other hand treated me really well. Even organized activities such as staying together for 5 days in a nice wooden bouse by the lake. We had a blast. (We live hundreds of kilometers apart, we meet seldom.)

 

[Kall]

They told me to stop making those things for getting attention. Afterward I just wanted in the most brutal way possible to make them pay

 

[アホペンギン]

At my first attempt, they tried convincing me that life was worth living although they weren't giving me any reasons as to why that was the case. Over the years, after more and more attempts I presume that they got tired of telling me those things and providing me with their false hope constantly so they resorted to yelling at me after figuring out that I attempted. I didn't receive any comforting or one to one conversations from them but rather got scolded after attempting and almost succeeding a few days ago..

 

[Costrecce]

They didn't care, mother straight up told me "I give up on you, go help yourself" I was 15. Dad didn't react at all and sister was a kid so she didn't know anything. Nowadays no one cares, probably because I haven't killed myself yet and they will only take it seriously when I finally actually do it. I keep mentioning sometimes how suicidal I am and no one cares. I should just kill myself already, life is not going anywhere anyway.

 

[numar]

My parents beat me the first time I attempted lol. And the second.

 

[Someday_Somehow32]

My parents tried to get me therapy (they took me to a bunch of therapists but only for one session) but nothing really worked and it was too expensive. They make jokes now about my mental health struggles and randomly check in on me. I remember after one of my failed attempts that they just looked at me and said something along the lines of, "since you want to die so much, what do you want us to do with your body?"
Never forgot that.