If you are thinking about SUICIDE ... READ THIS FIRST

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It's a link, and starts off with

If you are feeling suicidal now, please stop long enough to read this. It will only take about five minutes. I do not want to talk you out of your bad feelings. I am not a therapist or other mental health professional - only someone who knows what it is like to be in pain.

I don't know who you are, or why you are reading this page. I only know that for the moment, you're reading it, and that is good. I can assume that you are here because you are troubled and considering ending your life. If it were possible, I would prefer to be there with you at this moment, to sit with you and talk, face to face and heart to heart. But since that is not possible, we will have to make do with this.

I have known a lot of people who have wanted to kill themselves, so I have some small idea of what you might be feeling. I know that you might not be up to reading a long book, so I am going to keep this short. While we are together here for the next five minutes, I have five simple, practical things I would like to share with you. I won't argue with you about whether you should kill yourself. But I assume that if you are thinking about it, you feel pretty bad.


There's more, this is the link: http://www.metanoia.org/suicide/

thank you for that post, it was very informative.

I'm not debating suicide not have I ever seriously considered it, but it should help those who are and/or have considered suicide.

I think this would be a good resource, I've felt really bad at times and I feel this would be helpfull. Perhaps to have this as a sticky in the haven would be a good idea?

Here's some helpful links I posted a while back:

http://www.suicide.org/index.html

State by state numbers and info:

http://www.suicide.org/suicide-hotlines.html

this would be something that should be stickied for this board, good of you to post this SilentScream