Depression Support Group

In the past (long before DS existed), I frequently felt suicidal even though I knew that is not what I really wanted. I was desperate for someone to acknowledge my feelings and help me get through the strong, but temporary urge to end my life. I've been having thoughts like that again, but I don't post them because I'm afraid of being trivialized as an attention seeker. I sometime didn't have the energy or the language to express their desperation in another way. I think that even if someone posts suicidal statements repeatedly, that it's expressing a serious need for something. What that "something" is would be unique to each person. I have been afraid to post at all lately, but I"ve reached the point where I am less afraid of being offended or misunderstood than I am afraid of living with the pain I'm in. I could be a "repeat" suicide ideator (to make up a word).

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I am with you lillyblossom, I suffer with major clinical depression, and the last place I would ask for help is from this group. Your damned if you do, and damned if you don't. If you commit suicide your dead, but hell, if you change your mind, or someone on here actually help you, your a faking attention seeker. I agree with gothic also, they need professional help and should be encouraged to go to the ER. Even is they change their mind, they still should seek help.

if someone wants to commit suicide, they should post here. But one of the problems is that it crowds out some of the other big problems on here. I don't have a problem with anybody on this website (except one) but I have found that there are times that people who post here with a problem OTHER THAN SUICIDE sometimes (not always) don't get much of a response to their problems.
If you read about the man on here swallowing pills by the "bucket full", then you don't have quite as much time for the guy who is hurting incredibly bad but suicide isn't one of his options.

I think that paindora's problem is that she is an attention seeker....

paindora you have taken attention away from someone who really needs our time...

go scrub your bathroom

I will continue listening to these so called attention seekers(which I don't think they are). I'm doing better now, but usually I have felt what they feel to the point where you arent' emotionally, mentally able to do anything. I think it takes courage and their desire to want to get better to post their thoughts on here. I've found the majority of them feel very alone and just want to talk. Just my opinion.

Isn't seeking attention a cry for help? i know it is for me.

What can we as a group do to really help these people?

"LISTEN" thats exactly what we can do "LISTEN TO THEM"

depression is not something that comes once, then goes away after "some" therapy or "some" talking. it is what we have to live and deal with everyday. I DONT CARE HOW MANY TIMES SOMEONE POSTS:

I WILL LISTEN TO THEM AND I WILL HUG THEM!!!!!!!!!!

The site is for talking your prob's out, and people should not judge. If you do not like to read the crap then read another persons prob's you might be able to help them.

If half the people on here would read what I said..... they woudlnt have been so fing mean, I said that I wish we could as a group do something for them, that if someone was on here every night saying they were going to kill themselves, it was going to be ignored at some point. New people needing help weould be over looked, I cant beleive some of you are such evil mean spirited people. I too have been depressed, after my daughter died, after I had my neck broken in a car wreck, hit by a drunk driver with no insurance, I lost everything, then I worked to get my life on track and things kept happening, I hope that before anymore of you attack me with your venum, you will go back and READ what I said, I did not call anyone names, nor did I call anyone attention seekers. I did say that it "seems" that we have some attention seekers and asked nicely what we as a group could do to help, so to those people who cant read, nor comprehend english, drop dead