Poll: how many of you have disclosed suicidal intent to those around you?

[atdusk]

I don't see purpose in disclosing it to the people that surround me right now because they are all "normal" people and I don't think they can help. My experience is that only someone that has experimented mental struggles or some kind of trauma can understand.

 

[itsalittlecold]

I told them, I couldn't cope with the thought of them even questioning if they could have done anything. It opened the door to have a deeper talk and then trying to understand my pain

 

[failure383]

Kind of had to after my attempt to ctb.

This. I did not talked about it ever, with anybody, before I did my first attempt. Then everybody knew and I hated the fact. Now, much later everybody seems to have forgot about it and I'm glad. Only my psychiatrist knows, which is perhaps for the better. As of now I will not talk with anybody with it. It feels better this way, not disclosing my suicidal intent to anyone.

 

[etherealspring]

my partner and all of my friends know. however i never, ever intend on telling my family

 

[SketchTurner]

I don't see purpose in disclosing it to the people that surround me right now because they are all "normal" people and I don't think they can help. My experience is that only someone that has experimented mental struggles or some kind of trauma can understand.

This was very much my view. My family are suffering themselves and I've never gotten better from talking about my issues to people. My mother knows I'm very unhappy because of mental health, but she is sick and disabled, I have already worked through therapeutic techniques and it didn't work, some mild encouragement from family isn't useful. Nobody is functional enough to handhold me in to a functioning life. I saw it as just increasing emotional pain for people with no solution, and my mother is sick and she would probably blame herself since she relies on me to help her.

Sadly I got caught up in the Kenneth Law thing so I was out with my mother when multiple police officers turned up trying to find me, and more officers went to my house where my brothers let them in to take the sodium nitrite. That kind of forced my hand, I didn't tell my family more than basics, and nothing much changed. I still don't talk about it, we haven't talked about it in a long time, because it didn't change anything.

It was revealed how suicidal I was and nothing happened, the police left and the mental health crisis team never contacted me like they were supposed to. It was awkward for a while, my mother already told me she loved me no matter what before it happened, my mother still checks my post. In the end I was probably right. Me being revealed just increased the emotional unpleasantness I think.

 

[pursuit29]

My mother knows as I've suffered from chronic illness and she's been the main person I can discuss life/death/disability with. And she is the only one who understands where I'm coming from. You gotta be careful who you tell because the wrong person will just try to get you thrown in a psych hospital for a few days. Even if your thoughts are completely rational and make sense. No one allows animals to needlessly suffer but with humans they feel its okay for some reason