Best advice to a Suicidal Person

Well, while I feel saddened by suicides, I respect people's right to their own bodies. Also, as someone who was suicidal for a number of years as a child while living in a very abusive home, I can understand that level of pain. Some people talk about how, after a suicidal episode, people can't understand why they wanted to kill themselves, but I always knew why afterwards. It was more about finding a tiny thing to see the joy or good in than not knowing and feeling my own pain.

Also, you can't just get over depression or suicidal level emotional pain. Even nearly a decade later, I still have times where I have trouble coping with memories of things that happened to me. It is not as if you could just snap your fingers and get happy, that's not how it works. "I'm tired of people telling me not to give up and to keep trying, yet when i fail to get better they make me feel guilty about being who i am." These people seem to lack a basic understanding about how you feel. 'Just keep swimming' doesn't get you very far when you are in such terrible emotional pain that you would prefer death. You aren't suicidal because you like being overdramatic and a party pooper, you are suicidal because you are emotionally suffering.

"Imagine feeling constant pain and misery and someone telling you that you have to endure through it. That's what being suicidal and depressed is like." I think it might benefit you from trying to discuss these things with other people with similar diagnosis (I don't know your exact diagnosis), because other people with similar issues will get how you feel and won't put unreasonable expectations on you. If you aren't opposed to meds, you could try switching types or doses (though meds don't work for everyone, and not everyone wants to use them). Also, personally, when I was suicidal, looking at a small picture instead of big picture goal was helpful. I couldn't live for **** like 'my future', but I could live for the next release of a favorite book series or a favorite lunch at school.