![]() ![]() YOUR MOTHERS WERE THERE WHEN YOU WERE BORN. ![]() DEATH IS THE ONE TIME YOU’RE TRULY ON YOUR OWN. PEOPLE WANT TO DIE BECAUSE THEY HATE BEING VULNERABLE. You can also see my page on suicide and mental illness help which includes information on hotlines. That is what emergency personnel are there for. If you feel you may hurt yourself or someone else, please call 9-1-1 now if it comes down to your life or a three digit number, your life wins every time. Hopefully you can successfully communicate your specific state and your professional can assess your active risk for harm and get you the help that you need. That might be talking to your therapist or doctor, but definitely talk to a professional. Regardless, if you are feeling either one of these things, you need to know that treatment helps – in fact, treatment is the only thing that does (if you ask me). ![]() While I absolutely think that both states need to be recognized and dealt with, I still think it’s important to recognize the difference between a serious problem and an emergency situation. If, on the other hand, I’m actively suicidal, that’s the time when a suicide safety plans needs to be put into place and even a trip to the hospital may need to be arranged. For example, when I simply want to die, I don’t feel that I’m in imminent danger but I know that feeling and thought pattern could be a stepping stone to full-blown suicidality so I need to deal with it and absolutely not ignore it. Why does the difference between suicidality and wanting to die matter? Well, I think it impacts how you communicate your feelings. I’m not saying that a passive desire to die can’t hurt you – certainly it can – but I would suggest that being actively suicidal is more of an emergency situation. Thus, being suicidal is considerably more dangerous. In my experience, wanting to die is passive and being suicidal is active. (I’ve also written a suicide self-assessment scale – but please understand that it is produced by me and in no way scientific.) The Difference Between Being Suicidal and Wanting to Die It seems that nothing will move my brain from this place until the medication kicks in. Again, my brain seems to produce this thought endlessly. I tend to picture my death over and over and over. This might be picturing your death, writing a suicide note or making a plan. In my opinion, being suicidal moves you from the realm of wanting to die to the place where you are actively start taking steps to die by suicide. In saying that, I haven’t been suicidal that entire time. I can sit in this wanting-to-die state for days, weeks or months. ![]() There seems to be nothing that will adequately quiet the thought. And in my brain, the thought that repeats is, “I want to die.” It’s on an endless loop sometimes. It’s not that there’s anything wrong with my life or my experiences, it’s just that there’s something wrong with my brain. I know people hate to hear this, but even today, I experience the desire to die at times. I admit it - I’ve spent so much of my life wanting to die. Please understand that wanting to die and being suicidal are both serious and dangerous, but I would suggest they are not the same. Of course, if you’re suicidal, you do want to die (or, more specifically, to end your pain through death) but, if you simply want to die, you may not be actively suicidal. Samaritans Enterprises is a private limited company (01451175).I believe that being suicidal is not the same thing as simply wanting to die. Samaritans in Scotland is a charity registered in Scotland (SC009843) and incorporated as a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation. Samaritans Ireland is a charity registered in the Republic of Ireland (20033668) and incorporated in the Republic of Ireland as a company limited by guarantee (450409). Samaritans is a charity registered in England and Wales (219432) and in Scotland (SC040604) and incorporated in England and Wales as a company limited by guarantee (757372). If you could like to make a donation, you can contact our Supporter Care team on If you need a response immediately, it's best to call us on the phone. We're here 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Samaritans We're sorry, our website is temporarily unavailable. ![]()
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