Is there anyone whose parents nearly drove them to suicide?

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...and how? Mine was with constant banging and shouting/violence/psychological ravaging.

Yes. My dad often bullies me, and once or twice I've tried to overdose. I never succeeded because my throat swells up and I can't swallow tablets so well when I'm upset xD

Yes, never actually tried it tho. I got close a couple times.

Yes, this is not a rare occurrence for me.

Yes, but it was due to them ignoring everything I said, causing me to give up on telling them anything, including feeling suicidal from bullying in school.

I self harmed, because of my mother and the situation with my biological father. I had suicidal thoughts in my teenage years and recently, in the past couple of years for a different reason, but I never acted upon those thoughts.

My parents did by trying to raise the autism out of me and trying to train me not to talk about my special interests.

I wanted to add that my heart goes out to all of you! No one's parents should ever be so cruel.

Yes.

Parents, along with everything else. My attempt was in my senior year of college.

They were definitely the reason for my closest to suicide moments, for all of my suicidal thoughts. They were always so minimally involved in my life that they are the only people I have known any length of time who don't see how off I am. Most of my darkest moments have been related to how few life skills and prospects they abandoned me to the adult world with. I'm basically learning to be an adult late without my parents who have decided, after years of ignoring me, that I don't want anything to do with them.

I'm really close to just agreeing, but I'm not going to give them the satisfaction of ignoring my attempts to reconcile some of our past issues long enough that they feel justified in texting me that they have decided that I want nothing to do with them. >_>

But they're kind of slimy weasel people. On some levels, I really hate them.

As a child I was suicidal - made two attempts - much of it was from my parents trying to normalize me, but there were other contributing factors such as things going on at school, and so on.

Yup. Child abuse. I've talked about it before, but suffice it to say that when people tell you often enough that you're worthless, you start to believe it.

^^^

This for me as well.

and me also. Not to mention, I am an adoptee, so there was the initial abandonment, and then the adopters were alcoholics, and she made it clear that she was dissappointed in her purchase (me) and that I did not meet expectations. I got away from her at age 14, went to live in another state with a step-dad who was divorcing her... oh yeah.

suicide attempt at age 13, because I just could not wait 5 years to be out on my own.... the bully at home was worse that being ignored at school, but then when I went to live with someone else at 14, the bullying started at school and stopped at home. I was mostly ignored at home, which was a huge relief.... it's complicated. But the short answer to the question would be YES. Verbal and emotional abuse, with violence until the age of 14.

There are far too many yeses in this thread. This should never happen.