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Even when things are at their worse, their is something higher than our own lives to live for, a higher purpose that makes life worth living. Knowing this can help us keep going when we might feel like giving up.
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Support for Those with Feelings of Suicide
1. Accept mercy for yourself. Life is not all or nothing. We all make mistakes, we all have failures. Life is all about making mistakes and learning from them. Learning to accept mistakes we have made in the past, and realize that we will do the same in the future can help us.
2. Having a regular schedule for exercise helps. Walking briskly, outdoors is one of the best therapies. It is a forward-looking activity. It positively effects the chemical balance in our mind. It helps us to be positive, and to pull out of depression. It can help to stabilize symptoms associated with bipolar disorder and other mental health disorders. Some have said that swimming or other forms of light-contact exercise have helped.
3. Try to get stay away from television. Consider doing without a television for a year or more. For some, the television news can lead to feelings of despair. Many movies can influence the mind in feelings of despair or emotional turmoil. Finding active, mind-engaging forms of entertainment can help many to overcome feelings of suicide.
4. Heavy Metal and some other forms of music, involvement with spiritism or the occult, can also contribute to feelings of suicide for some.
5. Avoiding drugs and alcohol, paying balanced attention to diet can be of help.
6. Avoid isolation. If you have few social contacts, get involved with some organization or club, volunteer your time. Don’t spend too much time alone.
7. Avoid thinking that you need to have a mate to be happy. Some have given into thoughts of suicide after having been through a bad relationship. It is possible to be successful and happy, even optimally happy as a single person, and without being in a sexual relationship. Sometimes we lose in love, but we have to keep hope alive, look forward. All have had sour love situations. It is not the end. Life goes on and we recover. Don't give up because of a bad situation with a boyfriend or girlfriend.
8. Along those lines, monogamy is the way we were optimally designed. For many, promiscuity, excessive masturbation and pornography can lead to feelings of suicide. Trying to avoid sexually arousing entertainment and any form of pornography, can be one key for some, to break one link in the chain that leads to suicidal thoughts.
9. Don’t be afraid to get support. Friends, family, professionals in school, psychologists, a minister, can all be of help. Opening up to a supportive listener can be of help in healing wounds that might be leading to suicidal thinking.
10. Sometimes use of medicines can lead to suicidal thoughts that might not have been there previously. It is said that antidepressants actually double the risk of suicidal thoughts in children and young adults. For some, tranquilizers or major tranquilizers, typical antipsychotics have also contributed to suicidal thinking.
11. Prayer (Off-site link) is of help to many. Pouring out one’s feelings to God, can be of great relief. If we look to God as accepting and merciful, which he is, this is of great help. Prayer is more than memorizing verses, it is open and honest communication with God.
Please read the following:
Anyone who is on medication should not come off abruptly. Sudden change in one's medication regimen can cause problems. Anyone who has suicidal thoughts and is trying to come off of medication, should do so under a doctor's supervision and come off gradually.
This website is for informative and educational purposes only and any decisions that one makes in his or her treatment, or for their children are on a personal basis and The Association for Natural Psychology (AYCNP) bears no responsibility for individual decisions on mental health.
Organizations Providing Support for Suicide Prevention
National Suicide Prevention Directory Off-site link
Contact information for suicide prevention agencies. Listed by state.
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Off-site link
Locate support groups for friends and families of suicide victims.
Suicide Awareness\Voices of Education Off-site link
Includes an FAQ, general information on suicide, some common statistics, symptoms of depression, literature.
Pages Related to Suicide Help and Prevention
Suicide Counseling - 10 Helpful Ideas
Use of
Marijuana - Suicide Risk, Increase in Rate of Schizophrenia
Spirituality and Mental Health
Suicide Phone Hotlines - for Support
National Suicide Prevention Hotline
1-800-SUICIDE (1-800-784-2433)
Deaf Hotline: 1-800-799-4TTY (1-800-799-4889)
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
1-800-273-TALK (1-800-273-8255)
Boystown Hotline
1-800-448-3000
Covenant House Nineline
1-800-999-9999
