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My Suicide Will Not Be A Reaction To Another Persons Insensitivity

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If I do it, it will be a reaction to the state I have fallen into and the realisation that there is no escape outside of distraction and mind numbing drugs or alcohol or suicide.

I am like food that has gone bad. Wasted. Throw it away, it has no value.

It won't be because I am temporarily angry at some moron with no sense of responsibility to themselves or society or their actions or the result of their actions.

I used to get suicidal when some bonehead nearly killed me in traffic and I was reminded of all the bodies I have seen that were the result of some other bonehead and reminded of the daily possibility that this will be the day I am a body and the inevitability that we will all be affected by some bonehead in traffic somehow, someday.

I used to think that life was a waste of time if I was just going to get slammed by some moron that ran a red light while texting or plowed by a truckdriver during his thirtieth consecutive hour at the wheel. I guess I still do, but thats not why I am wasted like food gone bad.

I used to think that being the result of an abusive and cruel upbringing was the reason life sucked for me and was going to be the reason I finally couldn't be like this anymore and did it. Nope, I survived it and I won't have to go back, ever, so the damage is done and I haven't killed myself over it yet. I t won't be because my stepmother is a religious zealot without a brain in her head and my father would rather fight a fight he can win with me than even try to argue a point with her. I got my head smacked and my ass kicked and she got a trip to the religious retreat and he got a few days peace. Not going to let that be the reason.

Not going to kill myself over the knowledge that my wife has zero empathy and no ability to learn it either. I know that in my PTSD world if you aren't part of the solution, you are the embodiment of the problem. Thats my screwed up way of seein g things. She could understand it and work on the problems when they come up but she has no ability to get that she is the problem when she doesn't so she doesn't. I won't kill myself because she has just repeated an action that cause me anger again, the second time or the hundredth time.

I won't do it in reaction to another persons actions. If it happens it will be a cumulative effect of all of these actions in my life. The food doesn't go bad because one thing happened, the food goes bad because ten things happen.

I think my life is becoming more and more like bad food and is almost ready to be tossed, but it won't be someones fault, it will be everyones fault, especially mine. I am fealing as incurable as a jug of lumpy milk forgotten on the back shelf of the fridge. Gone bad, past it's date, toss it without a thought. No tears.
 
Can you truly say "ENOUGH" and realize that you're better than the existence in which you are living? Nobody deserves to have a ball and chain which is LITERALLY a ball and chain....Any way of getting out of that one? Empathy cannot be taught, so at this point, is the choice between breaking free (and facing the unknowns) or dying a slow miserable death? Even if you broke free and were happy for a day, would that be more than you're guaranteed right now in your current situation? Don't settle when you deserve better.
 
I am not going to do anything stupid, relax. Take a breath.

I have had a headaxche for a week, nightmares everynight and my counselor wants to rehash things I spend all my time trying not to think about.

I realised last monday that I feal guilt for every victim I was called on to treat as an EMT that didn't survive.

I feal guilty about the couple that was thrown from their boat by a blunt force impact, hit the watwer with major head injuries and chest injuries, floated lifeless for ten minutes and were pulled out and had been lieing there for ten minutes before I arrived, CPR was in progress, I joined in and took over when the other person was exhausted and there was bever a sign of life from either victim but I feel like I failed somehow and probably always will.

That case is exemplary because I was in no way responsible for their deaths, there was nohing I could have done and I know it. I just feel differently about it, and about a hundred other scenes all very similar.

try talking to someone, holding their hand, thinking this was going to be a save, and watching as suddenly something went sour and the bottom dropped out and the victim took a dive and you get to sit there wondering what you missed and what you should have done to save this dead person from the death you didn't stop. I know it was nothing I did or nothing I missed, they were dead when I arrived, we just didn't know it yet. The oxygen helped the breathing, the breath raised the blood pressure, the pressure increase tore the aorta the rest of the way. Who knows? I know I did my best and it wasn't enough and I blame myself on some level and I don't get to get over it.

I am not going to kill myself over this either.
 
I am not going to do anything stupid, relax. Take a breath.
This seems arrogant to me given the title of your posting and statement over and over again about suicide. I get that you aren't in a good place but the sensationalism and then a 'relax and take a breath' to someone who is extending a hand doesn't seem right to me. On top of that, this ^^ , doesn't match this :
I think my life is becoming more and more like bad food and is almost ready to be tossed, but it won't be someones fault, it will be everyones fault, especially mine. I am fealing as incurable as a jug of lumpy milk forgotten on the back shelf of the fridge. Gone bad, past it's date, toss it without a thought. No tears.
This sounds to me like suicide talk

There is ambiguity here somehow. At any rate, I do hope that you can find a path that is a little less bumpy.
 
This sounds to me like suicide talk
It's ideation. And honestly, this:
I get that you aren't in a good place but the sensationalism and then a 'relax and take a breath' to someone who is extending a hand doesn't seem right to me.
Is a thing that happens sometimes when people are struggling. You're attributing motivation (sensationalism) without having any real information. Self-loathing and suicidal ideation take different forms, and they aren't always well organized or nice. Calling it "not in a good place" sounds like minimizing, even if that's not how you meant it.

Anyway, I'm not trying to start a fight. Obviously I have my own nerve being touched here, which is probably why I'm trying to defend @enough - I really recognize my own thinking in their posts. So I'm personalizing. But I feel strongly about these thoughts, so I'm going to hit 'post reply' anyway.

I am fealing as incurable as a jug of lumpy milk forgotten on the back shelf of the fridge. Gone bad, past it's date, toss it without a thought. No tears.
The feeling that its never going to be able to be fixed is definitely a bleak, dark, difficult one. Can you step back and get any small amount of neutral distance from the feeling? If you can, try and observe that the feeling isn't objective - it's a symptom, just another shitty symptom.

I'm really sorry you don't have support from your spouse.
I know I did my best and it wasn't enough and I blame myself on some level and I don't get to get over it.
I just want to say that the thought, "I don't get to recover from this", is one I have all the time. I don't know any good ways to work on it, except to recognize it as a feeling, not a fact. I think the only way to move through guilt on the level you are describing has something to do with stopping the self-blame when it kicks in. I don't think it's possible to go directly to self-forgiveness, but I'm trying to believe that if I just stop with the blame (when I notice it), eventually it will become less heavy.
 
im struggling with suicidal feelings and hopelessness too - i get through each day by looking forward to going home, begin alone and going to sleep.

to get through I'm holding on to see my shrink on tuesday - there might be a new or different med to try - always has been so far and they work at least for a while.

guess its my way of saying -= don't give up yet, not until you've exhausted every single possibility - and even then, there will always be more - just ones we don't know about quite yet
 
@shimmerz
you would be correct, that would be a crappy thing to say to someone offering a hand- telling Solara to take a breath,

I posted that before I saw the post from Solara.

I posted the original, read it and got a feeling like someone might think it was b eing written a s a death threat to myself and did some backpeddling that wasn't aimed at Solaras post at all.

@Solara : I hope you didn't take it that way.

@joeylittle: A deep dark bleak place is where I came from to where I am now. All day I fight back the memories and bad thoughts and then at night my defenses drop and the nightmares come. weeks of this result in unending headaches and real physical pain.

It helps to write about it here and share with people that have been here before.

Even though I know I am closer to suicide than ever, I am also thinking about it more and thinking about why I won't do it and what I will not let cause it. All very confusing, Sometimes it makes perfect sense, but so did a mullet in the 70's and all I had to do was get my head straight and a haircut and the mullet went away, Suicide is forever, eventhough it makes perfect sense from time to tme.
 
I hear you, @enough. Writing about it does help, I think - but I am sorry about all the physical pain you are battling alongside the mental. Amazing how our minds can be strong enough to hurt the whole body.

Thinking of you.
 
Well, at first I thought you were responding to me, but I read it again and realized you weren't, so its all good.

What i say still stands though. I think that life is to short to be miserable. I hope that you can make some positive changes and get to a better place.
 
@Solara .
thanks. Life is short, but I took a vow, She needs me for her health insurance and even if we sold our place and I drained my retirement she would end up in an apartment on food stamps with no way to pay her medical bills (4k already this year) because she cannot work and the government has held her disability up a year already with at least another year before her next hearing. Her misery would compound mine.

On some level I am very sure that if I left her, even set up as well as I could and continued to pay her bills and stayed married so i could keep her on my insurance, I would feel even worse than being angry and frustrated by her. I give her everything she has unselfishly because it selfishly fulfills a need for me if that makes sense.

She just doesn't get it that she could make things so much better between us by learning to handle my PTSD better.I know I can do better and I try. She seems to have given up or just can't think beyond her own view of the world. An apology instead of an argument, patience instead of anger, thoughtfulness instead of thoughtlessness and our life could be so much better together.

She could be the last and only person I trust instead of number one on my list of people that are making me angry,
 
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