What is the dumbest way you ever tried to ctb?

[NoPoint2Life]

Maybe it was before you found this site and knew any better. Maybe it was just a very impulsive thing.
For me, I did the plastic bag over the head thing. I think I had just found this site very recently, but hadn't been on enough to learn about SI which came through hard. I was trying to knock myself out, so I drank as much NyQuil as I could stand-it was gross so not too much. And I took all the Prozac I had at the time which is laughable because then I was on the lowest possible dose and now I'm on the highest.
Oh, and I swore I'd never try that again. However, on a bad day a few months ago, I did purchase handcuffs… just in case.

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

Years before I found this site, back in like 2014, I got the idea to attempt to commit suicide by inducing a heart attack. Since I was only 20 years old at the time I thought the fastest way to do this was by eating whole sticks of butter. I didn't get a heart attack, but my chest did hurt a little.

 

[dembe]

when i was 13 i just took what was left of some pills my dad were prescribed, only like 7 were left, just got a lil dizzy and then have my father yell at me lmao in the ER. Also tried the plastic bag thing at like 14. silly shit

Years before I found this site, back in like 2014, I got the idea to attempt to commit suicide by inducing a heart attack. Since I was only 20 years old at the time I thought the fastest way to do this was by eating whole sticks of butter. I didn't get a heart attack, but my chest did hurt a little.

wow, the logic is just so wow lol, sounds like unpleasant way to go tho, mouth greasy and chest hurting

 

[divinemistress36]

Tylenol pm

 

[frog problems]

A bunch of tylenol. Worst tummy ache of my life

 

[ScaredOfMachines]

Ibuprofen overdose when I was like 14. All I did was throw up a lot and get a stomach ache.

 

[dontwakemeup]

Tylenol. Then I got smarter and tried Tylenol PM. Then I got older, a whole bottle of Prozac. Another attempt a whole bottle of benzo's. I only ended up with severe stomach aches and felt miserable. The easiest was my benzo's, I just slept for hours. None of my attempts made it to the ER. I'm done trying. Each attempt, I was certain in my mind this was the end lol.

 

[AnderDethsky]

I tried an overdose of just a handful of Risperidone a few months ago (don't ask where I got it from), it was extremely, extremely shitty. Restless legs syndrome, temperature changes from light freezing to blazing hot, loss of coordination, dizziness, to the point where everything around you is just a blur when you move,

and also these, as I call them, "Videoclips" in my head. This is when you are completely lying down, relaxing and trying to fall asleep, you get uncontrollable auditory/visual fragments of reality, for example, for me these were fragments of videos from YouTube, but when you try to concentrate on them even a little, they immediately disappear.

All this dragged on for several days, and I just prayed for it to stop, to the point that my SI made me not want any CTB for a long time, suddenly making me love, although not the best in the world, but my familiar condition, making me think that it is quite comfortable for living.

Also this year I repeatedly tried to die by drinking alcohol, no comments about my chances, the only thing this led to was that for a very long time afterwards I couldn't even taste the smell of ANY ethanol drink,immediately wanted to puke.

 

[.twilight.girl.]

i took 15 15mg XR Adderall and a few of my moms pain medication. I hallucinated for two days and had to spend 2 weeks in a hospital. So dumb idk why i thought that would work lol

Years before I found this site, back in like 2014, I got the idea to attempt to commit suicide by inducing a heart attack. Since I was only 20 years old at the time I thought the fastest way to do this was by eating whole sticks of butter. I didn't get a heart attack, but my chest did hurt a little.

probably one of the most creative ideas i have heard

 

[Canteventhinktoday]

Overdose of paracetamol and red wine when I was 18.threw it all up spectacularly

Mix of lorazepam, amatryptiline, diazepam and alcohol about 6 years ago. Had a very long sleep.

 

[EvisceratedJester]

Trying to cut an artery using a knife that turned out to have been so dull that it couldn't even cut through the epidermis layer. It was my first suicide attempt (I was 15 at the time), and I failed so miserably that I still cringe to hell and back whenever I think about it. Tbh, most of my suicide attempts are complete jokes. I'm so bad at everything, including killing myself.

 

[coffeebeany]

Stole a bottle of Ritalin from one of my brothers at the age of 9. It felt like I was about to have a heart attack but didn't. I wasn't brought to the ER but our physician (by my annoyed mother) who never run blood tests. Just gave me an IV and thought the symptoms were strange lol. That was the first attempt.

 

[theolivanderroach]

Dry fasting (no food no water) for a few days. I didn't do any research, I just remember hearing that the body could only last 3 days without water. I think I just fucked up my kidneys a bit. Also slitting my wrist vertically. Now I have a big embarrassing scar.

 

[deadzombie6]

I tried to cut my wrists

 

[OldManOfTheLake]

Tobacco poisoning LOL

 

[TragedyBornCrimson]

Ligature through lamp plug age 8

 

[cait_sith]

Taking very few sleeping pills and putting plastic bag over head (funny thing is the pills contained dph, but I didn't even thake enough to trip out; which I didn't know happens when you take too much them, I thought a few sleeping pills would be enough for me to sleep through suffocation from a plastic bag), called hospital after a few minutes of plastic bag over head from freaking out of minor effects from the pills. Looking back it hardly counts as an attempt, to my shame I have to say I was already early 20s, but there wasn't nearly as much information on methods as there are now.

 

[Thisisnotaname]

Cutting

 

[DeathFool]

OD of Paracetamol few years ago.

 

[bitcrush]

I very impulsively went out to a field to cut myself and bleed out and I forgot the knife

 

[cali22♡]

Slit wrists

 

[saii]

On my first attempt 5 years ago, I took as many pills as I had (tramadoli hydrochloridum) mixed with alcohol and had to go to the ER but I lied about how much I took. I always wonder if I caused permanent damage because I haven't felt "normal" since.

 

[everosity]

lol when i was like 13 i took bunch of advil

 

[Life'sA6itch]

On the night of my 13th birthday I took a whole bottle of tetracycline I'd been prescribed for a minor oral surgery. My parents gave zero care and didn't even know the entire bottle disappeared overnight but if it were either of my sisters, they would have checked, known and prevented it. Tetracycline, dumb, I now know but my 13 yo self thought lots of pills should equal death, right? I did this due to severe neglect and abuse from my mom and only regret the fact that I woke up as if I did nothing.

I later moved on to whatever was in the medicine cabinet at around 15 and still lived as if I did nothing and at 21 tried to CTB by OD on Rx back pain pills while at work due to a manager who was moved to my team treating me badly and at one point he slammed my hand between 2 pieces of metal. He was moved to supervise my team to get him away from other women he sexually harassed in a different department (without any info or choice about his actions being given to us) and he began acting possessive of me as if I even knew who the heck he was. I knew nothing about him until he began acting crazy, a man who had to be 20-25 years older than me too! He was my sup and I was not into that!

I didn't find out the truth about him or how the company kept him on instead of firing him after numerous complaints until well after I pressed charges against him for slamming my hand between two peices of metal and the company then moved me (didn't fire him, the multiple time sexual harasser and now physical assaulter of women) to his old department where other women who were complete strangers to me began coming up to me telling me all of the things he did. Horrible!

Anyway, on the last attempt I was naive and always making myself smaller in any way possible so when the company Dr. asked if I tried to kill myself I said I was just hurting so bad that I thought more back pain pills would have helped my back that I had actually injured on the job previously. Now I feel stupid because if I was honest with the Dr. and talked to a lawyer, I might have actually had a lawsuit that could have brought some kind of change to that place. I ended up quitting, that place was awful.

 

[NormallyNeurotic]

Slashed my wrist four times horizontally with a serated knife. I'm lucky the shallowest cut was the one right over my tendon. I was in a psychotic break, but still... dumb.

 

[Life'sA6itch]

Slit wrists

I don't have the guts to do that

 

[Death is love]

tried to make myself bleed to death by cutting myself with a razor when I was 15. I chickened out after like 2 cuts.

 

[S1_ckJoe]

cutting but my ex found out. I also took pills but I threw them up.

 

[hoppybunny]

I tried drinking facial cleanser but couldn't get passed the first sip cause it was too bitter.

runner up was 12 year old me trying to hang myself in a closet but i was too tall.
(i've only attempted twice lol and honestly each time i probably wasn't trying hard enough lol)

Trying to cut an artery using a knife that turned out to have been so dull that it couldn't even cut through the epidermis layer. It was my first suicide attempt (I was 15 at the time), and I failed so miserably that I still cringe to hell and back whenever I think about it. Tbh, most of my suicide attempts are complete jokes. I'm so bad at everything, including killing myself.

same. don't be embarassed.

 

[ForestGhost]

Not really a serious attempt, more like a very half-baked self harm episode but sitting in a hot car in the sun during summer. Would not recommend