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Re: Why suicide may be okay

#11
If you mean physical pain, I have been there. Three and a half years of constant excruciating pain that pain killers did little for. I chose to just try shit and see if anything helped. I would have been okay with dying, so I did not care that I was doing something other people thought of as risky. If you mean emotional pain, I basically did the same for that.

There are people who care. I am one of these idiots who cares about total strangers. It has gotten me burned a lot. I have grown cagier with age. Still, I have known others like me who helped me enormously. It can be found, if you are open to it.

If you want relief, perhaps you can view this as an opportunity to try something else. That is what I did. And it worked. If you honestly don't care about the consequences or cost, you can sometimes do things that most people think "cannot be done".

Best of luck. And "cyber hugs" if you want them.

Re: Why suicide may be okay

#14
My friend, Kenneth Folk, permanently cured his depression through vipassanna meditation. I would not suggest that it could be a widely applicable cure, but in his case, it worked, so it is possible.

http://www.buddhistgeeks.com/2010/01/bg-156-ordinary-people-...

http://www.buddhistgeeks.com/author/kenneth-folk/

Re: Why suicide may be okay

#15
I'm not going to pretend I've been there, because I haven't, but this sentence struck me as being particularly curious:

> I walk around waiting for someone to say something to me that matters, but it never happens.

Maybe everybody else is waiting, too. Why shouldn't you be the one who starts the conversation?

Re: Why suicide may be okay

#16
hey bro.. anybody home?? i see alot of insightfull opinions and provided very interesting and helpful links. But we haven't heard of you yet. How are things going on. What are your plans for News Years and the New Year? Anything special?

Re: Why suicide may be okay

#17
I hope I'm not too late and that our friend here will read this.

I've been there and the honest truth is things still suck in a lot of ways. But that doesn't really matter because it just means there's more for me to fix, more to work on and a chance to change the things that are worth changing. The people who are content with how things are never make things happen. Go change the world, make it the sort of place you want it to be.

But if you really want to stop feeling dead inside, to come alive again you need to start serving others, do some service, start caring about them, do things for them because you care, start small with random acts of kindness or volunteer at a soup kitchen or something. You might not think doing service would do much, but it will 180 your outlook on life, and as you start to care about those you serve many of them will care about you as well. Other than that exercise will help a lot, changes in diet as well and if you think there might be a need to see a psychiatrist then please do, in fact I think you should. But whatever course(s) of action you decide try to stay away from the ones that can't be undone (death is rather permanent).

if you need someone to talk to I can give you my contact info and we can get through this, just let me know ok.

Re: Why suicide may be okay

#18
I don't know if you are still listening or reading this thread - I hope we did something right. I hope we did not fail you. I was reminded of this post from 2 weeks ago in light of Aaron Swartz's suicide. Please post something lawbeecher to let us know you are still living. We can't easily move the dark cloud that is hovering over you but please let us know if there is something we can do.

Aaron Swartz RIP.

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