Very well put Charmed, I’ve tried to explain the mentality that you find your self in during the last few days or hours before attempts are made. Every loving and worried sidelong glance in your direction is full of resentment and exhaustion to your diseased mind. If I love them I should leave them, but I can’t just…

Both you and the two commenters above you make excellent points. There is always the knowledge you are going to hurt someone, but it does feel like “it’s better for everyone” when you are in hell with depression or illness. And you are right, your mind is clouded. When life ceases to be precious, I believe, very…

This really is the one thing that kept me from doing it when I was in my lowest lows: what about my parents, my bff, my cat, etc? I didn’t want my loved ones to be in pain (which for a minute only made me feel worse, but also stopped me from doing anything).

You are still missing the most important point. People who are suicidal from depression and anxiety really think they are going to be doing people a favor as many posters have stated. Please don’t ever, ever, EVER tell someone you love who is suicidal that they are being selfish. You are confirming their worst…

Preach! I tried to commit suicide 3x because I thought I would make my friends’ and family’s lives better! I really hate it when people say it’s selfish to commit suicide. We want to relieve ourselves of a very horrible nightmare of pain and anguish and generally it has to do with some majorly shitty person or persons…

I’ve been there too; my reasoning was I just couldn’t take it anymore, and had no ability to believe that anything short of ending it would make the misery stop (no amount of preaching and shaming and trite “think positive” bullshit lobbed at me ever helped; I fucking hated it when people were so arrogant as to…

It’s a really sad situation. I work with young people in East London, many of them just a little older than these girls. I don’t know how frank they are with me (I am, after all, an Old) but the it seems to be a combination of hormones, hubris, resentment at lack of opportunity and a (very teenage) desire to both kick…

Can you vote? Black people are more likely to be incarcerated because of the racist system which is designed to use inmates as a form of slaver labor and take away there voting rights. Also elderly Black people are more likely to be effected by vote registration laws.

Can you express your opinion about the government without the government throwing you in jail?

“Can you vote”

So here’s the thing:

Don’t forget

This is a crappy attitude to have. You have no idea about how other people experience being Americans. It’s not cool to dismiss shit like that by saying “Hey it could be worse!”

I’m American Indian. Yes, I have those rights that you listed but my people didn't become U.S. citizens until around the 1920s or 1930s. We have a very complicated relationship with the government. Am I proud to be an American? Sometimes I am but other times I'm not. I imagine other people who experienced opposition…

I used to date Hispanic guys, but now I prefer consensual

I’m UK based as well and I’m the only American. Real tears.

Me too, right! I knew it was coming, but I woke up this morning, and there it was. And now tears.

Yes!!! My heart has been broken this week, Patrick Macnee died, but this redeem everything! Let’s bring love and love troubles for all!

I know it’s complicated, I know there’s more to come in the individual states, but I’m actually crying right now.

I’m shocked when this happens in a regular news story (not prompted by a racially motivated terrorist attack) but this? Don’t you have anyone in your office looking at shit going “eh, that’s gonna look bad, lets pump up the diversity on this one”. And it’s not just NBC, it’s all over the place, like idiots who fill…