30 Interviews With People Struggling With Suicidal Ideation

We have interviewed 30 people who have struggled with suicidal ideation. These stories are full of inspiring tips on how to deal with these feelings. Please allow these stories to be a beacon of hope for you, and know that there is always a way out.

Most recent stories of people struggling with suicidal ideation

Finding Happiness At Sea As A Yacht Captain After Overcoming Depression and Anxiety

Finding Happiness At Sea As A Yacht Captain After Overcoming Depression and Anxiety

August 13, 2024
Helped by: Medication, Therapy
Somatic Therapy Helped Me Heal From CPTSD After Years of Childhood Abuse

Somatic Therapy Helped Me Heal From CPTSD After Years of Childhood Abuse

July 16, 2024
Helped by: Social support, Therapy
How A Rescue Dog Helped Me Overcome TBI, Depression and Suicidal Ideation

How A Rescue Dog Helped Me Overcome TBI, Depression and Suicidal Ideation

July 4, 2024
Helped by: Medication, Pets, Volunteering

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Are you struggling with suicidal thoughts?

I’ve interviewed 30 people struggling with suicidal ideation, and here are the top 5 most mentioned tips that helped these people overcome it:

  1. Therapy (17 people helped)
  2. Social support (13 people helped)
  3. Self-improvement (11 people helped)
  4. Reinventing yourself (10 people helped)
  5. Medication (9 people helped)

In our many years of publishing helpful mental health content, we always received questions from our readers about specific situations. While we have a lot of helpful tips to share on how to be happier, we simply can’t offer advice for every situation.

That’s why I’ve set out to interview folks with every type of mental health struggle. My job as an interviewer is to categorize these interviews and present them in a way that is most helpful to our readers.

Read all the case studies

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Case studies

Finding Happiness At Sea As A Yacht Captain After Overcoming Depression and Anxiety

“If a situation is making you unhappy – a marriage, a job, a family member – anything – change the situation. You can leave, you can stop speaking to someone (yes, even a parent or another family member), and you can do so free of guilt because you are in charge of your own happiness, and life is too short to choose anything different for yourself.”

Struggled with:
Anxiety
Depression
Suicidal

Helped by:
Medication
Therapy

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Case studies

How A Rescue Dog Helped Me Overcome TBI, Depression and Suicidal Ideation

“I sat on the summer-hot pavement, and no one stopped or asked me if I was okay. No one called the police. People walked around me as quickly as possible. When I was all cried out, I walked home to my empty house. I bought a set of knives, ostensibly for cooking, but that was not the reason. I had thought about pills, and every day I researched how many of each prescription drug I was on would I need to take to die. Using a sharp knife seemed so much easier.”

Struggled with:
Depression
Suicidal
Traumatic Brain Injury

Helped by:
Medication
Pets
Volunteering

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Case studies

Sharing My Journey From Alcohol and Substance Abuse to Sobriety and Happiness

“I felt prettier, smarter, funnier when alcohol entered my body so I simply continued numbing through the years. The progression of this disease of alcoholism turned into a nasty drug habit and those feelings of insecurity turned into deep darkness when I was “off my meds”. Or in other words, without alcohol or drugs.”

Struggled with:
Addiction
Depression
Suicidal

Helped by:
Rehab
Therapy

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Case studies

How Yoga Became My Lifeline in Navigating Depression and Building Self-Love

“My relationship with myself was pretty broken and I had no self-belief, I had low self-esteem and I resented my family. It was through yoga that I found the truest feeling of comfort, self-compassion, and courage to move forward, grow as a person, and fall back in love with myself and life again.”

Struggled with:
Depression
Insomnia
Stress
Suicidal

Helped by:
Exercise
Meditation
Mindfulness
Self-Care

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My Journey to Self-Compassion Amidst Depression, Anxiety and Suicidal Thoughts

“This suicidal edge coupled with stress, anxiety, and loneliness made me stop working as a human being. In just two months I had spiraled down into the darkest hole which has ever existed for me. There didn’t exist Marina anymore, merely a depressive and neurotic copy of her, who was unable to laugh and sleep.”

Struggled with:
Anxiety
Depression
Panic attacks
Stress
Suicidal

Helped by:
Self-acceptance
Self-improvement
Therapy