if you suffer from chronic pain or illness or longterm mental health issues do you think about suicide as an escape and how do you keep yourself from harming yourself or ctb.
for me it's mostly my pain but when things get bad my other illnesses play a part. it's usually when i have a pain spike in the evening. i used to have severe anxiety attacks occasionally but we fixed that with meds.
now here is what i do. i convince myself that the pain spikes won't last long. of course i take pain meds and if i have to something for anxiety. i have trained myself to redirect my thoughts which works most of the time. when it doesn't work i talk with my very supportive wife and/or talk to my friends on SF. i also keep reminding myself why i can't go by suicide. so hopefully i'll make it until the reaper comes and be fairly happy.
mike
for me it's mostly my pain but when things get bad my other illnesses play a part. it's usually when i have a pain spike in the evening. i used to have severe anxiety attacks occasionally but we fixed that with meds.
now here is what i do. i convince myself that the pain spikes won't last long. of course i take pain meds and if i have to something for anxiety. i have trained myself to redirect my thoughts which works most of the time. when it doesn't work i talk with my very supportive wife and/or talk to my friends on SF. i also keep reminding myself why i can't go by suicide. so hopefully i'll make it until the reaper comes and be fairly happy.
mike