Venting I enjoy faking my death

[peerlesscucumber]

Am I the only one to whom it's not surprising at all? There are a lot attention seekers here, more than a few years ago. Sasu changed a lot. At least, this person is NOW honest to admit it, but its still disgusting. I understand why people feel the urge to get attention, because they received too much or too few of it in their lives, but when it comes to death, which triggers a lot of people here, espescially those who cared for and your health, it becomes sinister. and you know its extremely egoistic to satisfy those needs on the shoulders of other members.
Hopefully its not only you who reads this posting, Iam talking to all the attention seekers out there and also to those who find it pretty amusing to register an account here to fake any shit.

You just made me realize something.
Did my post come off as if I were saying I create fake accounts in here to do this stuff???
I'm not asking in a mean way btw, it's just that it just hit me

 

[EvisceratedJester]

Am I the only one to whom it's not surprising at all? There are a lot attention seekers here, more than a few years ago. Sasu changed a lot. At least, this person is NOW honest to admit it, but its still disgusting. I understand why people feel the urge to get attention, because they received too much or too few of it in their lives, but when it comes to death, which triggers a lot of people here, espescially those who cared for and your health, it becomes sinister. and you know its extremely egoistic to satisfy those needs on the shoulders of other members.
Hopefully its not only you who reads this posting, Iam talking to all the attention seekers out there and also to those who find it pretty amusing to register an account here to fake any shit.

Dude, your average attention-seeker isn't going to go through the trouble of making an account on here to garter sympathy. Making an account on here requires you to have to explain, in detail, the reasons why you want to join this site and then wait and hope that you get approved. Most attention-seekers would likely not want to bother going through the trouble of doing that when they could easily just make multiple accounts on other online platforms instead. Why bother making up entire story to join a controversial website when you could post a whole bunch of bullshit all over r/suicidewatch under several different Reddit accounts? The OP has already stated that they actually are suicidal, btw.

Also, how do you know who is an attention-seeker on here and who isn't? Are you psychic? You do realize that making assumptions about whether or not people's suicidal urges are legit is fucked up, right? Especially since this is how you end up with a lot of suicidal people unable to get proper help, due to others assuming that they are just attention-seekers because they don't embody the image of what others imagine a suicidal person to be like. Unless you have clear evidence of there being a massive uptick in the number of people signing up here for the sole purpose of faking being suicidal for attention, then you are just making baseless assumptions.

 

[enduringwinter]

You just made me realize something.
Did my post come off as if I were saying I create fake accounts in here to do this stuff???
I'm not asking in a mean way btw, it's just that it just hit me

No.

Also many people do this kind of thing. I can't say I understand this mindset but it's really common. It's probably similar to trolling for attention, I'm not sure. You might find negative attention a dopamine hit too. But most people know, trust me. In your case they offered sympathy because it's appropriate and they wanted you to feel better regardless. From what you described you probably just came off as a regular cringy teen.

 

[tsykoais]

There's far worse things that could be going on than me posting a "might attempt today" on a random twitter acc with 100 followers

uhh, op just because there are worse things you could do does not make your actions less bad then they are. you're still carelessly effecting real life people. even if you are hungry for attention this isn't the way to do it at all.

Emotionally manipulating people with the concept of suicide is exactly what gives suicidal people a bad rep.

this is the shit im talking about right here, stuff like this is why it's so hard for the suicidal/depressed people that actually want to recover to get the mental health service and attention they need because when they open up about their suicidal tendencies they aren't taken seriously due to stuff like this. it's like the boy who cried wolf.

 

[landslide2]

Dude, your average attention-seeker isn't going to go through the trouble of making an account on here to garter sympathy. Making an account on here requires you to have to explain, in detail, the reasons why you want to join this site and then wait and hope that you get approved. Most attention-seekers would likely not want to bother going through the trouble of doing that when they could easily just make multiple accounts on other online platforms instead. Why bother making up entire story to join a controversial website when you could post a whole bunch of bullshit all over r/suicidewatch under several different Reddit accounts? The OP has already stated that they actually are suicidal, btw.

Also, how do you know who is an attention-seeker on here and who isn't? Are you psychic? You do realize that making assumptions about whether or not people's suicidal urges are legit is fucked up, right? Especially since this is how you end up with a lot of suicidal people unable to get proper help, due to others assuming that they are just attention-seekers because they don't embody the image of what others imagine a suicidal person to be like. Unless you have clear evidence of there being a massive uptick in the number of people signing up here for the sole purpose of faking being suicidal for attention, then you are just making baseless assumptions.

Well the requirements are not that strict, nor can they be verified. Maybe not your average attention-seeker will do it, but what is the average attention-seeker? Is op average, below or above? It leaves us at assumption and that's the problem with it. No one is making an assumption about others, only pointing out the very reasonable problems that creating fake accounts and personalities cause around something like ctb. Consider any responses you took the time to write and then pause and wonder how messed up it is if you were writing sincerely to a fake personality. We can never know of course as u said. But it's a good reminder to say out loud to any fake posts/posters that it's manipulative and fucked up and not welcome here.

 

[Endless_suffering]

I only did that once. Because I was in an online relationship with a guy I'd never actually met who was controlling the fuck out of me and I didn't actually enjoy it. I felt it belittled my real problems :/ I faked my suicide to him via WhatsApp he later found out I was alive via a message I sent him saying "you can't control me anymore, bitch. Hell is hot. were done" but I didn't get a rise out of it at all. Quite the contrary tbh.

 

[EvisceratedJester]

Well the requirements are not that strict, nor can they be verified. Maybe not your average attention-seeker will do it, but what is the average attention-seeker? Is op average, below or above? It leaves us at assumption and that's the problem with it. No one is making an assumption about others, only pointing out the very reasonable problems that creating fake accounts and personalities cause around something like ctb. Consider any responses you took the time to write and then pause and wonder how messed up it is if you were writing sincerely to a fake personality. We can never know of course as u said. But it's a good reminder to say out loud to any fake posts/posters that it's manipulative and fucked up and not welcome here.

Below attention-seeker? Above attention-seeker? What does that even mean, lol? Average in this case would refer to the majority rather than the minority. There is no above or below...

No one is making an assumption about others

There are a lot attention seekers here, more than a few years ago.

^This literally implies that they have made assumptions about others before. You wouldn't make a claim like this unless you were assuming that other users on here are just attention-seekers.

They are making a huge claim, which is that there has been an increase in attention-seekers on this site, but based on what? Unless if you have good evidence to support this, which they likely don't, then you are just making assumptions at the end of the day. They aren't pointing out a very reasonable problem because there isn't really any good evidence showing that this is a growing problem on here in the first place.

Along with that, an interesting thing to note is that attention-seeking behaviours surrounding suicidal ideation doesn't necessarily mean that the person isn't suicidal. They may just be using their actual issues with suicidal thoughts and urges to gain more attention as a last cry for help or understanding before acting on those thoughts. It's already well-known that it isn't uncommon for suicidal people to mention their suicidal thoughts to others before attempting, especially in the manner that the OP described.

Either way, this person is making a huge claim that they likely don't have much proof to back up and it's harmful. This type of rhetoric already has a long history of being used to invalidate the people's issues with wanting to ctb, so I don't think that anybody should be making such huge assumptions like this on here. Let's just assume that people on here are being honest unless proven otherwise.

 

[Cress]

I guess if nothing else I appreciate the fact that you're being completely honest with us. I would encourage you to look at it from this angle. Talking about suicidal ideation takes its toll on people draining them and there's some people that are willing to put themselves in that position of course. What you're doing is The equivalent to intentionally starting a fire and having the fire department go and put it out. The firefighters intentionally put themselves in that situation but you're draining finite resources From People that could be better used on.

In the example that you gave it's even worse than that because it's the equivalent of having random citizens go to put out fires for you they didn't agree to the ethics of any of it. People on this website For example have a limited amount of time that they can discuss Suicidal ideation and darker topics with people Before they are drained and burned out myself included.

I would implore you to please not make people on this website chasing phantoms that don't exist and essentially suicide pranking them. You're not only wasting their time but also yours. I have no doubt that you're probably legitimate hurting in some way and are using this as some sort of outlet to cope? Either way it would be better for you to be completely transparent and honest about what's going on with your life so people can properly offer support and help you. Which to some extent you already have been honest.

Anyway I wish you nothing but the best and I hope you're able to reconsider intentionally stressing people out. Take care of yourself buddy. My DMS are open if you ever need anyone to talk too. Good luck.