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Originally Posted by leacon
My friend on another forum who is suicidal is now inpatient. I am glad she is in a safe place now. I am seeing though now my own depression is bouncing back onto me. When I am depressed, I can get very urgy for self injury. I am fighting those urges now. Need to make some kind of contact to know I am okay and not as useless as I feel.
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Like you I too have "suicidal" urges when I am going through a bout of depression. I have never hurt myself and doubt that I ever would but as unpleasant as these urges are, I have come to recognize them as an escape mechanism in my thinking because I feel so bad and want to escape my own feelings. You are not useless and to a degree I think all of us have those feelings from time to time. We just have to stay strong and not act on them.