Alot of the people talking about suicide are people looking for attention. Not many people really contemplating suidcide will tell you that their thinking about it.
My ex use to tell me that she attempted suicide, but her brother walked in. I told her that she was just looking for atttention, if you're going to kill yourself and you're forsure you want to, you will make sure that NOBODY will be around when you do it, so you can't be stopped. All alot of these people are looking for is attention.
The same ex tried to pull the I'll slash my wrist right here, I handed her a knife and said, go for, I wanna see you, I won't stop you and I'll call 911 once you pass out so you can't be revived. She was looking for attention, because she backed out! I will say the episodes like this, they are mentally unstable, because of the whole attention draw.
But if you do commit suicide, there's no telling what state you were in. Some people get pushed to the edge, shit happens man. What about the people that jumped from a 100 stories up from the WTC? That is technically committing suicide, but was was their state of mind? They're going to die anyways, are the mentally unstable?
So you can be mentally unstable and mentally stable when you contemplate suicide. Just my
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