History of prostate cancer in your family? Put down that glass of milk, and add ground flaxseed to your diet. Have high blood pressure? Hibiscus tea can work even better than a leading hypertensive drug—and without the pill’s side effects. What about liver disease? Drinking coffee can reduce liver inflammation. Battling breast cancer? Consuming soy is associated with prolonged survival. Worried about heart disease, our number one killer? Switch to a whole food, plant-based diet, which has been scientifically shown again and again as a way of eating that not only helps to prevent the disease, but arrest and even reverse its progression. Introducing the Daily Dozen I have tried every avenue to try to alleviate this pain. Nothing has worked and I’m now at the end. I have no more ideas to try. No new doctors to see. No miracle drugs are on the horizon. A safety plan is helpful, too, in case your desire for death morphs into fantasizing about, or making plans to, kill yourself. A safety plan lays out the steps you can take to cope, get help, and stay safe if suicidal thoughts put you in danger. You can find a form for completing a safety plan here. So, what happened? I’m happy to tell you, but I’m not sure it matters. For me it was a powerful, personal confession to the Divine. But I think that there are as many ways to take a step, just one little step, away from our wounds and pains as there are ways to acquire them in the first place.

For many years now, since I was a teenager, I look out the window and feel I don’t want to be here. I don’t like being a human, and I’m not very fond of human things. Sometimes I go to sleep and, like many of you, I wish it’d be for good. I wish I could go to sleep in a beautiful, calm beach, under the stars, and gently become the sand. Dissolve whatever this is into something freer.Sorry to hear this. I sometimes feel the same especially when things are going not so good. I’ve learned that the more I feed these thoughts they grow. Life is hard no one ever said it’ll be easy. We have to learn to deal with what we have and make the best of it. The devil wants us to feel these emotions he wants us to give up and have despair but GOD is good he is all we need we have to surrender to his calling. Allow him to give us the peace we so badly yearn for. I know it’s hard and I know it’s seems like it’s never ending but we have to change our way of thinking. Life isn’t that bad only if you want it to be. My dad always says you can’t have a bad day you allow people to make you have a bad day. Sometimes it is ourselves we feed negativity and it grows and grows until the enemy wins we have to stop!! You mentioned you have children live for them I don’t have any but I bet if I did I’ll definitely have something to live for beside my parents and sibling’s But I haven’t done it, because it does not bring an end to the pain. It ensures that no end comes to the pain. Don’t think that dying gives a relief from a painful life – you will never know that you are dead. I really hate when people say that’s the past just get over it move on if it were that freaking easy don’t they think we would all do it if it was that easy to overcome our pain that we have suffered for so long that we would just do it if it was possible wouldn’t that be amazing wouldn’t it be wonderful it’s like the computer with the refresh button for our brains that would be awesome but that’s not what happens My best friend died 6 months ago while I was holding him. His heart stopped, and in the split second between his last heartbeat and stillness, I instinctively understood what irreversible means. I felt this rush of feelings, so fast, all yelling: nonono, make it stop, this is too real, too much. I can tell you the answer my husband had gave me while doctors had me on 38 pills where 10 of the medications actually caused suicide ideations and actions. (Get that, they give medications that actually cause the problem you have because you are most of the time from what I have gathered, because you are being abused in the home you live in.

It’s not How to Not Die, but How Not to Die—as in prematurely, in pain, and after a long, chronic, disabling illness. We have tremendous power over our health destiny and longevity. The vast majority of premature death and disability can be prevented through simple changes in diet and lifestyle, and, in How Not to Die, Dr. Michael Greger, the internationally-recognized lecturer, physician, and founder of NutritionFacts.org, examines the top 15 causes of death in America—heart disease, various cancers, diabetes, Parkinson’s, high blood pressure, and more—and explains how nutritional and lifestyle interventions can sometimes trump prescribed pills, other pharmaceutical approaches, and even surgery, freeing us to live healthier lives. Why Wait to Treat a Disease If You Can Prevent It? I want, so much, to take too much medication, but I won’t. I am too afraid of not taking enough and being left in a vegetative state.I’m glad that your medication is helping, anyway. (At times when I’ve had to take daily doses of psychiatric meds, they just had adverse side-effects like weight-gain without helping me mentally.) But suffering the side-effects like being exhausted is tough to deal with. If everyone who is disgusted by unjust, uncaring aspects of their country’s culture responds by killing themselves, that country is left only with those who approve or don’t care. This is why we need protest and activism movements to make things better. At least nowadays, with the internet, it’s easier to make your voice heard. Yes, there will be people who respond with hate-speech (just as there would be if you were speaking on a soapbox in a public park), but because they aren’t physically near you, at least they can’t shoot you. And there are other people who do listen and agree, and sign your petitions. Don’t give up! Sherry.. you say you don’t understand why others are keeping you alive against their will? No one – besides yourself – can keep you alive against your will.

so: why do I sometimes wish I wouldn’t wake up? I think maybe my early years roughed me up, and I believe Neil Young’s song “Needle and the Damage Done” plays a big part in my inner moods (as does my PTSD).. but the reasons I keep going? The reasons I know I won’t give up? If you blame yourself for your suicide attempt, this post might be helpful: Do You Blame Yourself for Thinking of Suicide? It’s about suicidal thoughts but the messages apply to suicide attempts as well: You’re not to blame. Mental illness, circumstances, stress, trauma or other factors are to blame. Negative events and conditions are things that happened to you, not that you chose. And even if you did choose something that contributed to your attempting suicide, you had your reasons. Generally speaking, we’re all doing the best we can with the information we have available to us in the moment. I HATE her. She has an everything life, while I struggle on so many levels every single day. But I don’t show any of that to her anymore and she certainly doesn’t know how I feel about her. Part of my considering suicide is that at least I wouldn’t be carrying the weight of this around all the time Not strong enough to end my life, there’s no easy way to do it. My friends and family have been great support but now they are now finding that my negativity is starting to make them feel ill so they have to withdraw their support to protect their own health and wellbeing. Totally understand that, but I am still desperate to communicate with them. Sherry: the message here is when a door slams shut, a window opens somewhere. If you don’t give up, you’ll most likely find it or it will find you.I really can’t go on. My 40th wedding anniversary is coming up on 1/29 & honestly I can’t seem to feel anything. I’ve got mental issues ( molestation from age 9 to 12 & stranger assault & rape, I was 15 & a virgin). I am glad life worked so well for you, but not many people receive such blessings as “love at first sight”, long stable marriages, loving children, careers that make them happy, and property…that might not be the best story to rub in the face of someone who wishes for death….hearing about the glorious lives of others drives some people into deeper despair…you’re just boasting about everything we have never had or experienced. The harsh reality is that many of us never will experience love, and many of us will never have children or even a home to call our own.

I am not divorced. Though my husband left me. He didn’t want to go. But he had no choice. He tried so hard to stay, but I had to give him permission to go, for his own sake. His suffering was so great. Hardest thing I ever did. Felt his heart flutter, when his soul flew away as if on the wings of a tiny bird, to be with the angels. I have been working since I was 15 1/2 years old and even then I carry three jobs subway Rikers 3M and a place called three ring circus and accessory store I’ve always always worked and paid my own way this is the first time in my entire life that I have I’m in a hole I cannot pay the rent and a building we’ve lived in since 1994 after the Northridge quake I don’t know what to do I don’t have the energy to get up only when I have to work these two shifts I should already have gotten a second job and third job I just don’t it’s different this time I’m in therapy I’m on medication it’s just different I’m tired of struggling I’m so tired I don’t have it in me anymore and all I’ve ever wanted was to be an amazing mom and put my daughter to be proud of me which she is but now how could anybody be proud of what I’ve become in the last two months over two months I don’t even clean the house anymore dishes piled up in kitchen it’s never looked like this I’ve never not been able to pay rent and pay my bills

After the divorce, I earned my medical degree, my mother died, and my ex-husband moved to another state. You say your daughters hate you for having stayed with your husband for so long. Maybe they will always hate you, maybe they won’t. After all, both you and they will change so much over the years to come that anything might happen. But if they do hate you, then that is their decision. Unless you did something to hurt them, it isn’t fair, but you can’t make them love you. All you can do is to love yourself, to love your daughters without expecting them to love you, and to try to find good friends who do care about you. (On the other hand, if there actually is something you have done to hurt your daughters, then, as they clearly mean a lot to you, I expect you have apologised and tried to make amends, but in this situation, it could be a long time before they feel able to forgive you.) That’s where “passive” comes in. People with passive suicidal thoughts don’t want to do anything to make themselves die. They wish it would just happen. Why do they suddenly act concerned “For a while” when you seriously think about ending a life where no one wants you.