How hard is it to starve to death?

[esoterispeec]

iis there any information or statistics out there on this. Maybe using appetite suppressing Drugs would help.

 

[Superdeterminist]

From my experience I would say extremely hard, bordering on impossible. I don't have any hard stats to provide, just my personal account. I tried it and only made it like 3 days. Mentally it's torture, and physically it becomes torture as well with the wide array of diseases that eventually manifest, worst of all infection due to compromised immunity. Probably one of the worst ways to go due to how drawn out it is.

 

[DarkWolf]

I was once so miserable I stopped eating completely. I only lasted a week. But it wasn't an attempt as I was still working and I used to have my dog and pets to look after so I had to eat again eventually. It's very hard psychologically and I imagine would be a very hard way to go. The dehydration is very painful. But yeah psychologically it's very difficult to starve to death.

 

[WornOutLife]

I once tried to do this but after the first 24 hours I was desperate and went to the fridge and jyst gobbled down food. Also, I had a terrible headavhe which lasted 3 days.

I guess the only way to ctb by starving is being tied in an isolated place but it will surely be quite painful. I could never do it.

 

[lofticries]

Watch hunger with Michael Fassbender and you'll see. It's based on a true story about bobby sands who starved himself to death for 66 days.

Bobby Sands - Wikipedia

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The only times when I've been able to starve myself was during my anorexia stage(I still have an eating disorder though) and when I got dysphagia(swallowing difficulties) as a kid. I was actually very close to ctb when I had anorexia. Never felt more completely out of my mind.

 

[Breakout92]

It's hard. I've been battling anorexia for probably 10 years now, and even when my brain is telling me that eating anything would be the Worst Possible Thing I Could Do I still can't make it past 3 days of no food. You start to get dizzy and heart palpitations. Even with appetite suppressant drugs, it's probably hard, but I've only used caffeine for that so maybe something stronger would help.

 

[Some1's_Wasted_Fetus]

Not easy at all. Very long and drawn out. It becomes mentally and physically painful after some time. Starvation causes people to become delirious when the body begins consuming its own muscles to try to survive (including heart muscles). Convulsions, heart palpitations, hallucinations etc. are all a part of the later stages. It's very psychologically taxing. I'd rather die painfully for a few hours than be forced to starve to death

 

[Superdeterminist]

Watch hunger with Michael Fassbender and you'll see. It's based on a true story about bobby sands who starved himself to death for 66 days.

Bobby Sands - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The only times when I've been able to starve myself was during my anorexia stage(I still have an eating disorder though) and when I got dysphagia(swallowing difficulties) as a kid. I was actually very close to ctb when I had anorexia. Never felt more completely out of my mind.

I saw that film, truly grim. Insane, the amount of suffering in that prison.

 

[Life sucks]

Avoid this method because it works by damaging the body over a very long time. I tried it once and it's very bad.

 

[wait.what]

If you have to go out into the world and function at any level at all, it's impossible. People who manage to stay on hunger strikes for any length of time are generally institutionalized in some way, or else have helpers who keep a roof over their heads while they lie in bed. I once substantially quit eating and drinking for a couple of months, to the point where I lost 50 lbs and my pee turned black from dehydration. I did this by going to bed and just staying there. Dehydration makes you tired and groggy, so I slept through most of it. This was only possible because I am on disability and live with relatives who 1) won't evict me and 2) are slow to call 911 on me. Most people aren't in a situation like that. (This was not a deliberate attempt to ctb, incidentally. It was closer to catatonic stupor. It took no willpower to do because I barely knew what was going on.)

I was also anorexic as a teenager, and I found I absolutely could not drop below 300 calories a day without having bad physical and psychological symptoms that attracted unwanted attention. I lost the ability to climb the stairs in my 3-story school, for one thing. I'd have to stop and sit down all the time to keep from blacking out. I also frequently got weird cold sweats, where sweat beads would drop off me even though I was sitting still and doing nothing. This was all very distracting, and I couldn't pay attention to anything for shit. I almost failed the tenth grade, and most people's jobs are more demanding than my high school was.

Starvation can also have unwelcome long-term mental effects on people, even if going without food was voluntary and/or only lasted a few weeks or months. Some people who've gone through a significant period of hunger feel compelled to squirrel food away in strange places, where it may spoil or attract pests. Some feel a powerful compulsion to eat non-food items, a condition called pica. I went bonkers and ate a bunch of bird seed once. Why? I have no idea. I've had strong urges to eat sand even as an adult. Some go from a period of not eating to being unable to stop eating, to the point where people's stomachs have actually ruptured. Others avoid that but go from underweight to obese. It's easy to have that happen, because starvation shoots your metabolism all to hell.

So yeah, starving yourself is impractical and excruciating, and if you don't die (which you probably won't), you may be left with permanent physical and mental problems.

 

[NormaJeane]

It will take 45 - 60 days to die of starvation, but the person will probable die of a disease first. Morphine will be needed.

 

[Carrotcake]

There are reports on starvations from time to time, but I think it's usually done by elderly people, or people who have had eating disorders for a very long time. I'd say it's a slow and painful process. And because it's so slow, there is a long window of opportunity to change your mind.

 

[dra1ncoreslwt]

From my experience I would say extremely hard, bordering on impossible. I don't have any hard stats to provide, just my personal account. I tried it and only made it like 3 days. Mentally it's torture, and physically it becomes torture as well with the wide array of diseases that eventually manifest, worst of all infection due to compromised immunity. Probably one of the worst ways to go due to how drawn out it is.

this happened to me, not a fun ride after starving myself for almost a month, my immunologic system was crashing and I caught HPV through a wound on my foot.