Serious talk

I think you must not try to hide this subject from anyone. it's there and it's real. and the only way we can overcome our past experiences is by facing them, hiding it solves nothing...

It depends. Despite the potential trigerring, people can also feel the support here, both from the people who dodid or not have the same problem as them. I think this is very important and helpful, too. I am not saying that this should come instead of therapy, as it cannot, but sometimes feeling a warm human contact, or just awareness of shared understanding can make the pain just a bit easier to bear and make one perhaps just a bit more confortable in their own skin. And to know how much young or not so young people are having this problem is something painful but necessary. I believe I do have some credibility to say this (although I do not certainly think I know it all, far from it) since I have attempted suicide and used to hurt my skin a lot when I was younger. Thus, I am talking from my own experience. If online conversation can help, than it should. If someone posted an oline cry for help, however unconscious that may be, than that cry should be answered. It is human, as well as the plead itself is human.

Now, to all of the people who suffer, I just want to say a few things: It is not a shame to be feeling the way you are feeling, it is not wrong to not be ok. Your emotions are your emotions, thay cannot be wrong or right, they are what they are. That does not mean still that you will always feel the way you do. Talk about how you feel to the people who love you and support you. Open up about what bothers you and what makes you suffer. It might not look easy to share the things that hurt us the most, and it sure is not easy, but it hurts less with time and with warmth. You may not feel it right now, but you yourself, as such, your existence, has worth of itself, even if you think that it has no meaning or you don't know its meaning. If you are here in this world, you are worth loving. A lot of people think that you are. Your parents, your grandma, your friends, your neighbors, brothers and sisters, your peers... Your cat or dog or parrot, your flowers, too. Years of coping with depression and fighting it have thought me that, however bad I may feel, whatevwr shit I've been through (oh, and I've been through some rather ugly things), it is still better to be than not to be. I know that more often than not you do not want to end your life, you just want to end the pain. But the problem is: once one ends it, one will not even know that it ended. So, it's not worth it.
For me personally, after years and years, I came to a decision that, whatever happens, and however I may feel, I won't do it. I won't end my life. It is my choice. I still have days, and weeks sometimes, that I don't exit my bedroom, and I still cry a lot sometimes just because I feel like shit. But I still won't do it. There are still days that I don't feel the taste of the food and I smell filth in the air, but heck, no, I still ain't gonna do it. I wrote the main reason why, but apart from the rational, there is an irrational one, too: it's spite. "Fuck you all and it all, fuck my life, I ain't doing it." Even if I still think about it from time to time, even if I still wish for it some times, I still ain't gonna do it. I lost some very dear people, I don't wanna lose anyone anymore. Including myself, whatever shit I may or may not be or become. Who cares? It's my life and I may as well chose to treasure it, in the fuckin' spite of everything, and the biggest spit(e) goes right at my depressed self !
You are very brave to talk about this. You have so much courage and you are great, just so you know. You have the strength and you feel a lot. You might just not know at the moment or haven't learned yet how to manage all the super intensive stuff that you are feeling. But you will. It is not always easy and it might be painful a lot at times opening about it and facing it, but you are not alone. Be kind and gentle to yourself, have patience, don't judge yourself. You are not useless, you are not wrong for the way you are feeling, you are human. A beautiful human that feels. Believe to the people who love you. Some days will be tougher than others, some times you'll feel very bad, but on some other days you will feel lighter and on some you will feel hapiness (however unbelievable it might seem at the moment). Some times you're tired of the struggle, but these tmes come and go, and then some better come. They might return again, but the good ones will come instead of them again. Just be patient, please. You deserve to love yourself. Even if you hate yourself most of the time, as I do, and I think some times still that I am not worth it, but I am aware that that's just my own misjudgment. Things become easier with time and now there are some things about me that I even like and find charming (like being a 40 yo manga freak ). And remember, you are completely authentic. Every one of us is.
In the end, a down-to-earth, practical advice: talking a 45 min. walk every day or runningjogging 30 min. 3 times a week REALLY helps. I won't write why in detail - but it triggers all the right neurotransmitters: serotonine, dopamine, endorphine and others. Google it. And no, nobody on the street or in the park really gives a fuck how you look in your tighs while you run. Trust me, they don't. I should know.

All the love and support!!! From my heart and mind, most sincearly!!

I completely agree, what’s even more concerning is the fact that 69 people (as of me writing this) want to do this topic.