How Often Do You Think About Suicide?

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I have gone from it being a daily occurrence to an uncommon one by restructuring my life

I chose "weekly," though right now, it might be more accurate to say "biweekly" since things are going pretty well right now.

During certain difficult periods of my life, it has been daily, or even multiple times a day. But I've never come close to acting on it, and for sure would never do it especially now that I have children.

My ideations are just that: when things are really rough, my mind turns toward the old melancholy escapist daydream, which occasionally becomes an intense rumination about death and the relief it may or may not bring with it.

I agree with this. We weren't given the right options because some of us don't think about suicide.

I think about it all the time. Multiple times a day. Glad to know I am not alone..
I should get help But it seems it's the only thing that keeps me sane, a ticket out.
And I am quite confident that one day I am going to do it, once certain conditions are met. Or not.

Enough...And although i think that it is a really stupid thing to do, i can not tell for sure that i would not do it tommorow or some day in future.

Every day.

I probably won't ever go ahead and do it, but yes. Every day.

I've always thought about it occasionally. Life on the spectrum can be a struggle in many ways. It has been for me. I've developed full-on depression recently, so I'm thinking about it all the time. I'd never do it - I couldn't do that to my family, at the very least - but I do think about it a lot. I'm trying to build up the courage to get help. I've just gotten used to keeping a lot of what I'm thinking and feeling to myself, so the thought of letting my guard down completely is sort of terrifying. I'm working on it.

many people i know keep throwing suicide out as an option to make me value them more, and i do consider what life would be like without them, but i have not much attention for that type of consideration, so i can not be bothered to truly analyse it.
2 of my friends told me that they were going to commit suicide on 2 closely separated nights, and they did, but all i wanted to do is go home and leave them be in their mental quagmire. they could not be talked out of it by me so there was nothing i felt i could do to prevent them from dying.
die they did.

I have had suicidal ideas all my adult life, since the age of 16. Son these times I have been depressed but other times sheer frustration has done it. I think frustration is the more common emotion when I feel like this.

you will die inevitably one day anyway.
so it will end now or later. all the same in the blink of time

The last time I thought about suicide was in 2000.

I've been depressed lately, so just about every day, but I try to push those thoughts aside and replace them with something positive.
When it comes to what triggers it, it mostly is thoughts of people who have treated me badly in my life and uncertainty about my future and what I'm going to do with my life and if I'll ever be happy.
Also, if anybody here ever needs to talk, please message me I really don't want any of you to hurt yourselves ever.

A favorite Nietzsche quote is: 'The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.'

Like Nietzsche, I find the possibility of suicide a comfort. It means that if I prepare ahead, I will always have a way out of the worst that can happen. But first I can try other options.

A similar way to think about suicide is the way lawyers are supposed to think about litigation: a last option when all else fails. One arbitration specialist (whose name escapes me; one of his books is called "Getting to Yes") calls litigation your "BATNA": Best Alternative to a Negotiated Settlement. IMO, my life BATNA is suicide. I never have to accept a worse fate than nothingness. (Of course, this wouldn't work if I believed in a hell.)

For myself never but I don't see that as an option.

this two year old post used to say something meaningful but i became so embarrassed about it that all the content was removed.

i think it meant to say that i no longer think about it as much as i used to, and that's still true. recently i went through a health scare for no apparent reason and my suicidal feelings spiked, but i think they are going back down now.

I can't recall the last time I had a suicidal thought. It's been a few years or so & the difference has been that I figured out the biochemical causes of the depressive thoughts I once had and how to treat them via diet and natural medicines. It seems a distant past life when I thought and felt that way.

I do think about it when I hear about others' struggles, though. And I thought about it (not my own suicidal thoughts, but thinking about suicide itself) last night when I saw this meme pic on Facebook that I came here to share now: