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Managing thoughts of suicide & self-harm

What's the point anymore

What's the point anymore

What's the point of reaching out for support when noone cares about what you are going through or how you are feeling.

Why bother talking about suicide when they just think it's a joke and that you aren't really going to do anything. Reaching out for help when you are at your lowest point takes so much strength, it takes so much to admit how you are feeling and to accept that you need help.

But what do you do when noone will help, what do you do when you are told to just rest and you'll be OK, to just breathe and you'll be OK, to just think positive and you'll be ok.

No amount of just breathing or rest or positive thoughts are going to magically make everything stop, it's not going to make me suddenly better, it's not going to stop the trauma from happening to me, it's not going to stop the thoughts and what I want to do to myself.

I'm sick of reaching out for support/help in these moments only for my thoughts and feelings to be dismissed, to be criticised for what I'm going through, to be made to feel guilty for how I'm feeling, to be passed from one service to another with noone able to help.

I'm exhausted, I'm scared, I'm hurting, I'm at the point of giving up. But it's OK I'm not really going to do anything am I? There just thoughts right and it's not like I'm going to act on them am I?

It really doesn't matter how I feel does it?

I give up, I quit, I admit defeat. I won't bother these services that are supposed to help anymore. I'll just silently fight my own battles until I can no longer!

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Okay @Former-Member ❤️

Out of curiosity, what are your favourite comfort movies/tv to watch?

For movies mine are probably My Best Friend's Wedding (a classic) and About Time. And for shows its The Office, though there are a bunch others that I might watch for comfort too. Oh and I love some reality TV when I'm going through a particularly anxious or stressful time, I can just switch my brain off when I watch which feels so nice sometimes

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@Ru-bee i enjoy watching old school things that i grew up with. Buffy and Angel, full house, touched by an angel, everybody loves Raymond, king of queens, big bang theory. Movies i struggle with as I rarely get through a movie without getting distracted 🤣. But I like avatar, it takes two, pretty woman, the princess diaries, what a girl wants. And I love Disney movies, they usually make me laugh when I'm feeling pretty down.

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@Ru-bee ok I'm up for the day. I've had to deal with killing one spider in my house and my phone has rang twice already. I'm not ready to face the world today 🤣.

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I looooove Buffy @Former-Member I hadn't watched it all the way through for a while and I did a full rewatch last year but was worried at the start that maybe it wouldn't be as good as it was in head...turned out it was better haha

I love Disney movies too but sometimes they can be sneaky and I go from having a great time watching an adventure to suddenly being in tears and that's not

Look at you go facing that spider! I feel like I've been seeing way more spiders in my house this summer than I have in years so I've had to kill a few myself recently which is never fun

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@Ru-bee Buffy is great and I love how it continued on with Angel connecting into it. I've watched it a few times all the way through and enjoy it everytime.

Yeah Disney movies have a habit of doing that but then sometimes I struggle to get emotional so having a cry to a movie is a good way to get things out.

There's definitely been more spiders around lately, I've killed 5 in the past week that have ventured into my house. And one of those was huge (size of the top of a coke can) and ran at me 🤣.

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@Former-Member hey mate,

im sorry you’re going through it, I know the feeling. I Have tried a lot of avenues myself since I was a child and have ended up here myself. I’m not sure how this website works but I’m here if you would like to talk. Take care mate

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@Dean1990 thankyou. It's definitely been a rough time lately. I'm about ready to explode at this point, literally hanging on by a thread.

You take care aswell and the same goes, I'm here for a chat 🙂

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