1.If you’re reading this, there is at least a small part in you that doesn’t want to die. Listen to it, and please read on.  

2.Suicide is final – once it's done, there’s no changing your mind. Since you have even the slightest of doubts, you owe it to yourself to stay alive.  

3.You can always kill yourself later, why not wait? Even if you wait just one day, you may find a reason not to kill yourself in the meantime.  

4.If you’re feeling suicidal, you’re probably in more pain than you know how to handle. There are ways to reduce the pain, and ways to learn to deal with pain. You can learn both - either way things will get better.  

5.Just because you’re feeling suicidal doesn’t mean you have to act on that feeling.  

6.Consider this – if you’re trying to escape from the pain you are in and seek relief, suicide is not the answer. You cannot feel relief, or anything else for that matter, if you are dead. You must stay alive in order to feel the relief you seek.  

7.Often when feeling suicidal you feel alone. You are not alone – you found us didn’t you? Turn to your family or friends or a priest or a rabbi – anyone that will listen. If you don’t know whom to turn to, use the links on the right-hand side of this page to find resources that can help.  

8.By terminating your life right now, you terminate your future. Consider this – we create our own future. You have the power to create whatever future you wish for yourself. But you need to be alive in order to have that future.  

9.If you’re sensitive enough to be in so much pain that you no longer want to live, you’re probably sensitive enough to care about, and want to help others. Maybe you don’t feel like helping anyone else right now, but why not help yourself? And perhaps by not killing yourself and overcoming your difficulties you can later help someone else who is in a similar situation.  

10.Point 10; just think what you are doing to your loved ones, there are people who depend on you and killing yourself would be cowardice. Think of what they will go through when they wonder wether it is their fault. So just stand life even if it is just to make another life better.  (thank you to contempt for this addition)

~ http://www.the-bright-side.org/site/thebrightside/section/325

Something to think about before self-harming

ok so if you want to cut or whatever think through this...

What do I want?

What do I have to do to get it?

How will I feel when I get it?

So, what I REALLY want is…

Other ways i can get this....

 
eg.
What do I want?to cut

What do I have to do to get it? pick up something sharp and cut

How will I feel when I get it?   less stressed, guilty  

So, what I REALLY want is…
    to feel less stressed  
Other ways i can get this......
  listen to music, phone a friend, sleep  

~thank you to cnath for this addition

(Edited by c j at 5:37 pm on Oct. 3, 2005)

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Someone's always stealing my tuna,
even though it's clearly labelled "Bob's Tuna."
It just makes me so mad I want to scream.

When I come back I'll add to it.

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Join the Brotherhood!

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3.You can always kill yourself later, why not wait? Even if you wait just one day, you may find a reason not to kill yourself in the meantime.

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Ok, I'll wait until next week to blow my brains out.

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"I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me....I am, of course, and have always been an atheist."- Albert Einstein

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Ok, I'll wait until next week to blow my brains out.

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But if you took it literally, every time you thought about it, you could wait until the next week, the next week would come and by the same logic you could wait more.  However, this isn't a perfect world and no one will do that.

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Someone's always stealing my tuna,
even though it's clearly labelled "Bob's Tuna."
It just makes me so mad I want to scream.

i am grateful, you have tried to reach out to people who are desperate for help and support. yes suicidal people sometimes arent thinking straight. hell, ive not been, but those reasons give some argumentative logic....and may mull around in the pesons head until they can think a little better, stay alive and be saved, at least once....and that is something.

thank you

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just keep swimming......going....going....gone.

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life is 2 good 2 just give away

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Thankyou, hardman, for your intellectual input.

Anyway, I'm glad the list has been posted. It is nice to have these things about here and while it doesn't greatly help me, it is reassuring (for lack of a better word) to read. So, thanks c j.

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Who?

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Some of these reasons are okay, but most of them really do not appeal to the suicidal person's logic.  

When I come back I'll add to it.

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3.You can always kill yourself later, why not wait? Even if you wait just one day, you may find a reason not to kill yourself in the meantime.

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Ok, I'll wait until next week to blow my brains out.

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Actually, whenever I am feeling like life is no longer worth living, I usually say 'ok, next week, I am dead'. Then by next week I am fine.

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If one, settling a pillow by her head,
Should say: "That is not what I meant at all. That is not it, at all."

http://www.golivewire.com/forums/topic.cgi?topic=190901

(We have too many stickies as it is, so unfortunately I don't think we should add the one I linked to, but I think it's an excellent topic - cj, maybe you could put it in this topic after the reasons not to suicide or something?)