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*Trigger warning* I made a plan

Kombie390
Community Member
So I've made a plan. Is this a vent. A cry for help. I don't know. This has been thought about for weeks now and I have tried every distraction I can think of and do. None of these have worked I have thrown myself into each of them to the brink of becoming physically unwell. Its part punishment knowing I don't deserve anything good not even this life of mine I'm currently living. It's to change these thoughts and part trying to take myself out before I plan to carry out the plan.

My counsellors are all unaware they are concerned because the past few sessions with each of them I have sat in the chair in almost silence to not allow my voice to accidentally slip up and say the wrong things making them even more suspicious. I don't want to be locked away for my own protection. I want to make this final choice for myself. Lately it feels like choices have been taken away from me or been made for me.

I have tried to re-anchor myself to stay for my kids I can't my brain won't allow it. The dissociation makes it feels like I've been picked up in a cyclone and it hasn't tossed me out yet dumping me somewhere. As it has been life has been swallowing me whole then spitting me back out. I am raw from life's issues. I am tired. I just want a little peace within.
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Sophie_M
Moderator
Moderator
Hi kombie,

We're so sorry to hear that you're in such a dark place right now. We can hear that you're tired and that life has been really tough lately. It sounds like you're really struggling to keep yourself safe at the moment, so we'd recommend that you call 000 (triple zero) - this is a choice that you can make for yourself.

We are getting in touch with you privately to check in and offer you support. Please know that we think you are valuable - very deserving of good things, and your life - and we are reaching out to you because we are really concerned about you. We'd like to be able to help you through this time.

It's important that you let your counsellors know what's happening for you so that they can help, and offer you the supports that you need. We hope to speak with you soon kombie.

sunnyl20
Valued Contributor
Valued Contributor

Hey Kombie,

I am sorry to hear you are struggling so much right now. It sounds like you are in a lot of pain. I know that you don't see it right now, but you do deserve good things in life, you do deserve help and care. You have so much more value than you realise. If it feels too difficult to let your counsellor know face-to-face what's happening, maybe try to contact them via email or phone if this is possible so that you can get the extra support you need. They are there to help. You are tired, and you want a little peace within - I hear you. But you can find what you need without ending everything permanently. I know you don't think this can happen, but I hope one day you can see this.

Please stay. Take care.

Delectable
Community Member
I understand how you feel, and it’s hard to continue to exist, I’m sure you’re hurting terrible every day..take care

I can see pain in your story. I am not sure what has happened for you to reach this point. Perhaps writing here is your way of reaching out. I have often said that our mind is good at playing tricks on us. And it is easy to think these thought as facts about ourselves. And you do so deserve to be able to find some happiness and joy in your life. You are also worthy and your story told.

I am not sure of what your professional help can do, but I also know that talking to my psychologist about suicide has been helpful - or it was for me. I do not want to go into the details. What I will tell you is that shortly thereafter I was also put onto medication and that has helped me. Is there anyone who in your family or friends who know what you are going through at the moment?

I do not have any answers for you. But I can share insights into my own journey, tips or tricks that have worked for me or apps I use. I do not want to throw too much information at you, except to say that I am listening and I hope you will return to talk about yourself.

Peace to you

Tim

Kombie390
Community Member
Everyone I do appreciate all your kindness and support I really do. It's not for me. I'm sorry. I met with my crisis case worker this morning and I froze not able to say how anything really is. Here I am feeling nothing but absolute shame. Shame on me for not reaching out to the help and support I know is right there on front of me and what ashame I don't want to save myself.

sunnyl20
Valued Contributor
Valued Contributor
I am so sorry you didn’t feel able to talk to your case worker. Please know that there is no shame in what you are going through. I don’t know the details of what has happened, but I know you are in a lot of pain - there is no shame in feeling like there is no other escape, and there is no shame in struggling to seek help, just as there is no shame in seeking help and needing extra support. Is there anyone who you have been able to talk to when things have deteriorated in the past? Please take care. We’re here for you.

smallwolf
Community Champion
Community Champion

We all (?) have things that may be difficult to talk about. I had great difficulty talking about suicide with my psychologist. I could not answer the questions that were asked to me - actually, I could not talk, chose not to talk, and either stared at the floor or ceiling and really did not want to be there. I was (not) quite a mess that day.

(I was and am a person based on all of my experiences. My thoughts or what I had been told about suicide were wrong and as a consequence thought that I was weak for not being able to control myself.)

I do not know much about your thoughts on this topic or what stopped from being about to tell your therapist. And whatever it was, please know that you are not the first person to freeze or the last. Similarly, you are not a bad person because you could not tell them.

If you cannot tell your support people, perhaps an email or give them something in writing. Would that make it easier for you.

For myself ... we were eventually able to talk it through. I also had a embarrassing thing to talk about re side-effects of an AD I was prescribed. The relationship with our therapist is odd - we share our inner-most thought and secrets that we might not be able to tell our partner. And yet we also using a service. Again, for myself, given this odd relationship we have, once certain topics have been discussed other things become so so.

Please be kind to yourself and know the people also care about you, walking this journey with you.

Peace and comforting thoughts,

Tim

Hi Kombie,

I hope you are safe.

Reading your posts felt like seeing my own thoughts in the past put into words. You are clearly in so much pain right now and my goodness how I wish I could help ease that somehow.

You wrote about not being able to speak and I know that feeling far too well. You've already worked out what is stopping you from getting the support you need... feeling ashamed.

I felt the same. It took years to be able to let anyone see how desperately I needed help.

My husband asked me to write down my thoughts that day. Letting him read the worst was so terrifying but also such a massive relief. Being brutally honest even though I was so deeply ashamed was the best thing I've ever done for myself and the reason I'm alive today.

I gave the same paper to the doctors, then the psychiatrist. Words just wouldn't come out for me either. The psychiatrist told me that I was so distressed that words weren't possible and that it was ok to need medical help just to be safe.

You sound afraid of needing to be in hospital. I was too. Flat out refused to go. They didn't force me to though. I had a safety plan and had very regular appointments. Had to have my husband home until the meds started to help. And they did.

So you know... I had a detailed plan also. Had two kids I was desperately trying to live for. When you are depressed and suicidal it is so bloody hard to even feel you're worth helping let alone to ask for help.

You are worth helping. I'll repeat that as long as you need.

I think it's so courageous of you to be posting. I wasn't able to. Didn't write here until I was better. I hope you keep writing. There is no shame here. We get it. We've been there too. Noone here is going to judge you.

I hope you get the help that you need. My heart goes out to you.

It can get better. One day at a time.

Love Nat

Hello Kombie, MI is a cruel illness, to try and find our own way is difficult and unless you have struggled through it yourself, then how can you possibly understand and unless you've been trained it's incomprehensible.

Choices and decisions were made by my wife and kids, why, because I couldn't even attempt to, I wasn't strong enough or didn't want to be involved, and yes it made me feel left out, but I wasn't well and this could not be blamed on me and this also is not your fault.

Take care.

Geoff.