With all due respect, you probably are not the best person to help people struggling with depression or mental illness. People who legitimately are depressed or mentally ill should seek out experienced help from a psychiatrist or similar.

EDIT: Here is the number for the suicide hotline in the US 1-800-273-8255

Seriously.

Well, it's been a few years since I seriously considered it, but there were a solid 6 months where I was suicidal.

A friend of mine had committed suicide about a year prior to my own suicidal thoughts, and my best friend since childhood attempted suicide a few months before that. I think that this played a role in my desire to end my life. During this period I was still completing my bachelor's degree, and had no idea what kind of job I would want afterwards. I was also high (on weeeed) from the time I woke up to the time I went to bed, and was becoming increasingly paranoid.

I was under the impression that the people I considered to be my friends didn't actually like me, and every time I hung out with them I felt like my presence was a burden on them. Whenever I would hear laughter my immediate thought was that they were laughing at me. This was with everyone, whether they were friends or just strangers walking by on the street. I felt like the only way to feel alright was to get high, but looking back I'm almost positive that it was making all of this worse.

Everyday it just felt like I was going through the motions that were expected of me. The only thing that kept me from actually killing myself was the thought of how my family would react. Basically, I just didn't want them to feel like they'd failed, so I kept on living.

The strangest and scariest part of all this, to me, is that I'm not really sure what changed other than I stopped smoking weed and started working out. I also spoke to a friend and one of my school's psychologists about what I'd been experiencing, and I was assured that much of what was happening was delusional. That seemed to make something "click" in my head, and I started to feel happier and gained more self-confidence.

Good you didn't do, we would have lost a gamer.

This.

I've been suicidal before though. Last time was probably October-November 2015. Super depressed. Was seriously thinking about ending it all. But then I talked to some people, some people here even such as tads, axum, and smeags, and that helped a lot in hindsight I shouldnt have let it get to me the way it did, the depression. But, whatever, what happened, happened. And Im in a much better state of mind now

They weren't random, they're friends and I trusted them enough to talk about that issue in detail. I didn't go to them to feel better, I was talking and it came out. Plus it was in a private setting, not on VGChartz itself

Me a few years ago. I have a mood disorder that's like a little bipolarity and I had a deep stage of depression that went from something like 18 y/o to 24. I was very unhappy with university and love and life in general seemed sick.

Good thing is that I got treatment and even if I lost a few university years and my friends have already graduated, it was for the better. It has helped me to make music and art in general, on the bright side

Oh and it's not always connected to stuff that happens, in my case I felt most of my life very bad and strange even if good things were happening to me or not a lot bad things happened. Thing is people don't notice it because the happy side of the mood cliff makes you look very extrovert and negativity just looks like dark humor lol

Good thing I never tried alcohol or cigarettes, they are even more addictive to people like me.

I don't think this is a very good idea, so I'm locking it up.

Feel free to PM the head mods about it though. They may see this differently.