I've been struggling with suicidal ideation ever since I was a child. I was born in a unique situation, which alongside my Borderline Personality Disorder, has made it almost impossible to connect and relate with other human beings. I was abandoned by my druggy parents at the age of 2 and adopted by a single mother; my single mother was a barely functioning alcoholic that was passed out on the couch by 4PM everyday. She wasn't all mentally there, there were instances of her accusing me of raping my dog, smashing my window, throwing bottles at me, etc etc etc etc etc etc, all shit that still sticks with me. I essentially raised myself (don't know how to word that without sounding like I'm bragging about it), using the Internet to its full potential to help with the process. This was my life until the age of 16 when my mother passed away from her alcoholism and once again i was an orphan; at that point I was too old to be sent back to foster care so I was declared a legal emancipate and moved in with my Aunt until college.
I still managed to make it into a decent university, but at that point my mental state had gone unchecked for so long and i was so disillusioned with the idea of obtaining happiness and working for a better life that I tried to kill myself with an Exit Bag my first year of college. Not only did I fail, but the attempt ironically ended up ruining my life anyway. All my close friends that I managed to make distanced themselves from me, if not immediately then by the end of the year when they told me they were too uncomfortable with sharing a house with me, leaving me on my own. What little family I had distanced themselves a bit, school officials still to this day keep hounding me about my well-being.
Three years and some failed suicide attempts later:
I finally found a person that I truly connected with. To this day it's the only thing that I would say "cured" my suicidal ideation. Note that she wasn't my first close/significant relationship, but I'm still shocked at how similar we were in terms of sense of humor, personal tastes, hobbies, none of which I could ever say about another person before , especially to that degree. I won't dwell on the relationship too much, but to surmise it lasted as long and got serious enough to the point where we started living together and started (naively) planning a marriage. We were crazy for one naother
And then I ruined it. We had our first major argument at her place a year and a half into the relationship, it got heated and we couldn't deescalate the tensity (again, first major argument), and she broke up with me kind of on the spot. To this day, I know that if I had just replied "Okay" we'd still be together, and she was just had a bad spat.
But my dumbass couldn't do that. Instead, a blinding sense of rage took over being abandoned again (I fucking hate BPD. constant fear of abandonment while doing everything to cause others to abandon you), and I stormed out of the apartment after slamming and breaking the door (weird flex, i'm buff). To this day the rage that leaked out that day scares the shit out of me, especially given that I directed it to the one person in life I considered an actual blessing. That lack of self-control destroys me. She not only left me almost immediately after that, she refused to talk to me, so a lingering sense of closure being unfulfilled wakes up with me everyday.
I don't like talking about the last part too often when discussing suicide as it inevitably gets a response of "You'll find someone else". Which isn't the point. I don't need to find someone else. I found someone and acted shitty enough to eventually scare them away.
We shared the same friends group, so I lost my friends again. For the second time in college. They don't even look at me when I pass them by anymore. Now I'm less than a year from graduating with a degree in a field I have no passion for. I constantly read those Reddit posts "What's stopping you from committing suicide" and the answer is invariably one of two things
"How it would affect close ones"
I don't have that. It's all gone, and I'm self-aware enough to realize my major issues aren't going to be fixed anytime soon. All the wasted time and energy has been for naught. If I killed myself, maybe three people would be sad. And honestly, consider it selfish, but there potential pain is not enoughto outweigh this pain.
"The future can be better"
Which is what I was told a year ago, two years ago, three years ago, four years ago, five years ago,...
It's an easy quick lie to satiate someone on the verge of suicide that doesn't really want to do it, it's useless for a person that has decided suicide is the better future.
This Winter, since I live on the tenth floor of a high-rise with balconies, I'm going to drink and take sleeping pills and lie on the edge of the balcony. Hoping to passout and roll off. I also own a bottle of Nembutal, but I would need 2 plus the anti-emetics to consider that method. I'm also considering the exit bag again.
I don't feel connected to this Earth anymore. I don't see the value in persevering through pain anymore. I've tried the medications, the therapist, to rebuild, to see things from other perspectives.
Life is draining and not worth it.