How To Eat To Live, Not to Die: Simple Scientific Approach To Foods that Prevent and Reverse Disease for Longer Life

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I normally don’t publish comments where someone announces their intent to die by suicide; per the Comments Policy, comments that “announce an unequivocal plan or intention to die by suicide” won’t be published. I hesitated to publish your comment for that reason. However, I am making an exception for various reasons: I do sense some equivocation on your part. At the same time, I think it could help people to read your stance and understand how someone can appear at peace with their choice to die by suicide. And I think it can help you to be understood. I hope I am right.

I hear ya. I’m on what feels like the 100th therapist, I’ve taken the meds, “at least I’m not (fill in horrible blank here), and I just can’t take it anymore. Research indicates that people with passive vs. active suicidal thoughts are at equal risk for attempting suicide. We don’t know why, but it’s reasonable to hypothesize that passive suicidal thoughts can swiftly change from “I want to be dead” to “I want to kill myself.” Well, I gotta tell you that it’s all true. Life can turn around. We do each have a gift that is ours alone to give. There are people in our lives who do love us to the extent that they would be devastated if we abandoned them by taking ourselves out of their lives. I see the same threading connection between myself and every comment here. The internal pain, the hurt, the sadness, the tears, the remorse- it just doesn’t fade away. It doesn’t get better. The farther along time marches by the tightness becomes too much, the loneliness like the dark of night unavoidable.I know my life experience is very different from yours and I can’t possibly begin to understand your pain, but still, I agree with your thoughts on this article, and I’m grateful for finding your comment, with much more genuine and sincere thoughts. Life does feel pretty lousy sometimes,I completely understand what you are saying,I have felt the exact same way you do right now for the last 20 years,been to sessions with various therapists but it seems they are all just reading from a script they learned,had medication and while it took away the negative thoughts somewhat it left me completely numb,no emotion no feeling towards anything. You can get through it and you will,there will definitely be people you leave behind that will be affected by your death for the rest of their lives,people care about you and depend on you even if you don’t realise it. I will not call a help line again. Will try to get individual help on how to open communication with son…even if it’s his anger I want him to get it out. unless you’ve been there they have no clue. I dont know what to do anymore. I feel like i always do my best everyday for the past 4 years but i dont feel rewarded for my hard work. Instead of a reward, the problem that i have keep pouring in my life. For now i dont even need any reward, i just need a break from all of my problem and live a happy live like everyone i know, is that to much to ask? What you describe sounds so lonely, painful, and dispiriting. Especially in the context of the pandemic, I can only imagine how isolated you’ve felt, and how those feelings would contribute to your feeling worthless. I wonder, are you getting help? I worry you might feel hopeless about getting help, or feel you don’t deserve to feel better, or something similar. I hope you’ll try, anyway. As I just wrote on another comment, as painful as life can be, it doesn’t have to hurt this much. There are different things to try, and I hope you will. Remember, it’s a cliché but it’s also true: Don’t believe everything you think.

admit and share with work that I have high functioning anxiety and depression, the bullying stops….. the person who loves me and who I love, no longer loves me any more. Most doctors are good at treating acute illnesses, but bad at preventing chronic disease. The 15 leading causes of death claim the lives of 1.6 million Americans every year, but this needn’t be the case. Dr. Greger methodically lays out the why’s and how’s of disease and, with his trademark humor, presents the indisputable, peer-reviewed, scientific evidence to support the best foods to eat (and to avoid) and which lifestyle changes to make to live longer and more healthfully. I think I’ve been depressed most of my life, so finding my way here all these years later I guess was sort of inevitable. I take no comfort from finding others here as well – and so many.

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I’m very sorry you haven’t been able to find help – or care. I hope you do soon. At the least, have you tried calling the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline? (Just dial 988.) Perhaps they know of resources in your area. The Crisis Text Line is also a resource, at 741741, but there may be a wait. No. Please don’t give up. You are here for a purpose. Just reading your message is helping other people who consider your thoughts help to try and make sense of why we feel this way and so you are my connection to many more. You are worthy of all good in life. Hang in there.