Discussion How many people had their first suicidal thought during childhood? (Under the age of 18.) Poll

[dontletthembribeyou]

I can't even get mad at them in good faith, because it's not their faults that they are bumbling illiterates. They just weren't taught right. How can you blame someone for not doing something they never had the capacity to do in the first place?

I really admire your approach to this. It's good for you to spare yourself the resentment, and you're probably right.

 

[MAKE IT STOP!]

14. However, I don't even consider that childhood. My childhood ended when my innocence was stolen from me in 5th grade.

 

[Lilithium]

I believe I was around 13-14? Around that age I noticed my emotions started to get "flat", for lack of a better word, and I just started toying with the idea of doing something so I could go to sleep and never wake up.

I didn't realize that I was having suicidal ideation then until much later, as I grew older and that emotional "flatness" devolved into full blown depression. I just didn't really have a full understanding of what those thoughts were back then, and it certainly didn't help being raised by parents whose approach to me expressing that I felt depressed was to retort that I had no reason to be depressed

 

[dontwakemeup]

The agenda for suicide is grossly suggested by sites like these, it's not true! Actually a movie on regular t.v I watched when I was in elementary school gave me the 1st idea of suicide. My life growing up was horrible, when I watched that movie, I knew that method (in the movie) was my only way out. I had the resources at home and figured it worked for her and this movie is a "true story," so certainly it will work for me! I was about 10, and my 1st failed attempt. Now, I would have more and I always contributed my "atrempts information" down to social media and their propaganda.