Does suicidal thoughts feel like chest pain to anyone else?

[OnceThougtTwiceDone]

Pretty simple post, you can just read the title and you should know everything you need to answer.

 

[Gonnerr]

No , more like brain cancer or psychological pain.

 

[unnormal9]

No—for me it manifests into physical fatigue: aches, throbbing, shooting pains in random parts of my body, headaches, and migraines.

 

[wiltingorchid]

Not only suicidal thoughts, but generally feeling extremely bad- i always feel it in my chest. Feels like getting eaten by something inside of me.

 

[hellispink]

A lot of times yes. I feel my chest hurting and feeling very heavy. Psychological pain is the most cruel deep one can ever feel. It manifests in many ways.

 

[Alcoholic Failure]

I wouldn't say pain, but in deep moments of psychological pain, I do find that I feel a throb or a skip of a beat in my heart when I visualize a suicidal situation.

 

[LastFlowers]

The suicidal thoughts don't, but when I'm confronted with all the reasons why I must commit suicide..there is a physical sickness, tension or even pain that comes with that.
The thought of death itself is actually one of the only things that lessens this horrible sensation.

 

[SpiderLink]

Pretty simple post, you can just read the title and you should know everything you need to answer.

I don't think suicidal thoughts feel like a chest pain to me. It's more so whenever I'm in a really bad state I feel physically pain in my chest, like I'm being crushed. As for suicidal thoughts, it feels like I'm always drowning in them, very hard to breathe (mentally) if that makes sense

 

[unsaiddes]

For sure, when I get really overwhelmed with suicidal urges it feels like a harsh twisting in my chest and a pull like my heart is trying to plummet. The body's response to strong emotions/SI maybe?

 

[outrider567]

stress can cause chest pains

 

[Toy]

For me, my suicidal thoughts make my chest feel very heavy but the pain part radiates more around my head.

 

[Forever Sleep]

Grief certainly feels like chest pain. Ideation feels more like an incredibly intense frustration because I feel desperate to go but feel like I can't. (Don't want to upset my Dad.) Plus- beyond that- there's fear because I know when the time comes, I'm going to be scared to do it. For me- it's more frustration and anger in my brain (angry that I have this life that I need to find a way to get rid of) and fear in my stomach.

Are you sad about wanting to CTB? It's usually sadness I feel most in my heart.

 

[sulli]

yes. such an intense ache. currently being crushed by it

 

[WorthlessCoward]

No. I actually feel very good when I imagine killing myself

 

[charlotte_]

To me, it manifests in a full body ache and fatigueness. In cases where I don't feel physical pain, it feels rather like something that's filling up your head so rapidly and is close to explode

 

[KarmicRain]

i do feel some ache in my chest but it's mostly a head thing. usually when the thoughts hit I feel super fatigued but at the same time my head feels really clear.
like, the more I feel like ctb'ing, the clearer my thoughts about it get. The tiredness that comes with it kinda also feels like a sense of tranquility: I think the thoughts themselves are something I use as a way to cope with living.

 

[PoisonousPotato]

personally, a lot of depressive thoughts and anxiety can manifest as a deep, vague, diffuse pain in the chest and stomach. when i'm very depressed, the pain can be very intense, and come with delusions of internal bleed / decomposition / being eaten by small insects.

about the pain itself, i had a lot of difficulties to find anything on the internet, closest thing i found was visceral pain, visceral hypersensibility and visceral hallucinations. note that albeit in my case it is certainly psychotic, it doesn't have to. it's a whole type of sensations.

 

[downndone2]

Anxiety gives me chest pain. Thinking about suicide often makes me anxious.

 

[JJMaynard97]

For me, it's a headache and the feeling my brain is gonna explode, i get horrible pains in my eyes and just get shortness of breath.

 

[kwho]

Not at all. They feel like the voice of my True Self. The only thing keeping me from falling apart.
Whenever i lose focus momentarily - unavoidable outside commitements, interactions, etc and am plagued by uncertainty if my next attempt will succeed, that's when i feel like suffocating, being absolutely crushed by some weight, like being tortured.

 

[Unattainable666]

Pretty simple post, you can just read the title and you should know everything you need to answer.

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Pretty simple post, you can just read the title and you should know everything you need to answer.

Sounds like a panic attack

 

[wastingpotential]

god. yes. chest pains and migraines are my most common, i'll either feel absolutely empty when i'm feeling low or like i'm about to implode.

 

[ctrl-alt-relief]

Pretty simple post, you can just read the title and you should know everything you need to answer.

This might be you having anxiety attacks from those thoughts. Really depends on the pain your experiencing. Sometimes it feels like nothing, it really is going to vary between people. Some people are so numb and so used to pain that they actually find a bit of happiness in thinking of the end.

 

[Untimely]

yes this is exactly what it feels like to me.

 

[Unwr!tten]

Yes, when I'm that low, it feels like a fist is holding my heart and squeezing it and it's slowly cracking. Sometimes, as I lay crying on my best, I see in my minds eye my heart like a glass crystal cracking.

 

[murmur]

Yes, I'm very perplexed by it, I've never seen another person put this kind of reaction into words before, at least in a manner that sounds familiar. I wouldn't describe myself as being very emotional or anxious but there is a humming pain in my chest for a noticeable amount of each day, it becomes very heavy at times when I have a reflective moment, which can be triggered by pretty much anything, in essence being reminded that im alive. It might sound like it could be simplified as a deeply felt sadness, i dont deny that maybe an aspect but it more than felt, it physically hurts. in a weird way breathing almost feels like agitating the wound if it's intense enough.

 

[goodbye_._]

No but usually when I'm deep in thought everything starts to move away from me if that makes sense. Nothing feels really, so i guess I just dissociate really bad. I also get a little dizzy but that's only if I'm thinking about it a lot. It's the right thing to do for me but it still hurts so I get it.

 

[starlover]

Yes. Feel it in my chest and head. Extreme physical tension, rapid-fire suicidal thoughts, and I just want to tear my own body to pieces for relief. I imagine ripping out my own lungs or scooping out my own brain.

Therapist once suggested that it was actually an anxiety attack.

 

[Twiceler]

I wouldn't say pain, more like fluttering, when I fall in love with a girl. That's what people call anxiety I suppose.

 

[DeadPool360]

For me I don't feel like its painful
but more like someone is doing a fatality on me lol
like his hand is on my heart and keeps squeezing it until I am not okay anymore