How do you combat suicidal thoughts and tendencies?

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So, how do you combat suicidal thoughts and tendencies? It might be a simple question to ask but a difficult one to answer.

I find something to do that distracts me from feelings of self-pity.

Music is currently my greatest 'cure'. I guess those old blues masters were really just trying to make themselves feel better by singing and playing their troubles away.

It works for me, too.

The only thing that has kept me from doing it is my mom. If I killed myself it would ruin her life.

I just stay busy doing creative things like writing, playing a musical instrument, video editing, etc.

Well, to me, it's simply going to sleep.
Usually those feeling strike hardest at night and thus the best remedy is go to bed and simply fall asleep...you'll wake up feeling if not better, more in control. Probably feeling a bit guilty/embarrassed.

for me its simply the knowledge that i dont have the balls to actually go through with it. If i were going to I would have already

Parents & pet dog.

I may consider it when there's only me left.

Petrol lawn-mower in the back of the car, if I ever did.

Not sure. Faith that life will get better in time, if I keep working towards my goal and have the patience for it all to workout, I think. I don't have much going for me right now and I almost always feel like s**t.

I'd like to add that a healthy diet, sunshine and exercise work wonders.

Two things:
1) Realizing all the things I might never learn/see/experience. Usually in science. Heck, hearing the USAF actually acknowledge Roswell 47 would be simply worth hearing! (Still waiting on that one though..)
2) Someone already said it, PETS.

You can add some hobbies too. Basically fill up your free time, its harder to wallow in misery. Not impossible, but not worth it!

Sincerely,
Matthew

The biggest thing for me was realizing how darn hard it is to kill yourself.

What would be worse is to fail, then end up with the stigma, the possible debilitating injuries, and the feeling of failure.
And the mental institution.

No fun.

It would be worse than being dead.

In the actual moment, where the pain is too much, three things help me, all discovered during a particularly bad patch this time last year. First, if you can - if you have the space and privacy to - scream. The mental/emotional distress gets such that it is very much physical, and I tried letting off a scream, as I would if the cause were some externally caused injury. It felt strange - even on my own, I was inhibited - but it helped a lot, a sudden release of pressure, and I was soon walking around the empty house, just doing chores, those feelings would hit, I'd let out a scream, and they'd start to disipate. When I couldn't scream, I'd snarl. It still requires a certain privacy, but I was trying to let the feelings have a physical outcome. And then writing and writing and writing. Just what I was thinking and feeling. Again, I felt the release of pressure, or the neutralising/discharging of an electro-static build up.

On a more day to day level, I try listening to myself. If there's something I want to do that might help, no matter how silly I may feel or inconsequential it may seem, I do it.

I'm in a place now that, If I did want to kill myself, it's be a walk in the park - literally. Across the street from my house is a small park. Right behind that park are the BNSF train tracks. They're active tracks. Trains criss-cross all day long. A suicidal person's dream come true.

My own family and my parents keep me alive. Plus I don't want my son to go without a mother. I could kill everyone but then I would I have to kill my husband's family and their family and my mom's family and my dad's too ad so on and how far does it go to make sure no one is hurt with me committing suicide and me killing their family member or friend? I would have to track down their friends too and kill them also and kill their families too and so on. So no suicide here. Just my own negative feelings about it makes me not want to do it. Plus I am terrified of death and suffering before it.

Nothing seems to help for me. It usually is a case of doing nothing and sleeping until the feeling has gone away. I can assure you, it hurts like hell itself but eventually it does recede. I have to confess, I have attempted self-harm before although never gotten anyway with it, instead bailing out due to fear of pain and death. So I have to say, those that do indeed "take the plunge" must have a lot of cajoles because it isn't easily done....