[Serious] Redditors who have contemplated suicide, what did someone do or say to help you change your mind? Or if you're still struggling, what do you wish someone would say or do to help you?

Nothing. And if I could go back in time and tell myself one thing to save myself from my depression, I wouldn't.

Depression was separate from reality. It was just a part of me. Nothing anyone said touched me. For years, my peers were reaching out to me - visiting me at home, taking me out places, calling me.

It did nothing. I literally laid on my bedroom floor, and my mom would take my classmates right into my room, open the door, say, "Hey, you awake?" I was awake. I didn't move. I didn't reply. I laid there, pretending to sleep.

They tried. They all tried.

Nothing anyone said or did touched me, and there is nothing I can imagine could have.

A big part of my depression was the peer pressure to date. I did eventually get a girlfriend - losing her (she dumped me for my best friend) spun me off into the worst depression I ever experienced - but I think, looking back on it, I got what I thought I wanted. It didn't make me happy. I was still depressed. Then I lost what i thought I wanted. It didn't kill me. I was still depressed, but I think that's what helped me snap out of it.

I hit my personal rock bottom, and it didn't kill me.

No one else could give that to me.

I am still struggling. And, still, nothing anyone says can touch me. My wife, God bless her, she insists I'm wonderful, and that I saved her, and that I teach her new things in life. It can't, won't ever touch me.

I've had such good times in my life - such wonderful friends, family, experiences, adventures - they don't change it. I still want to die some days. I still want to give up and walk into the ocean forever.

I don't know why I don't do it, and you know what? When Robin Williams killed himself, it terrified me. I thought, that could be me. One day, I could wake up and change my mind, like he did. If someone as famous, rich, successful as Robin Williams could do that...so could I.

I don't know what to tell you. No one can save you from yourself.

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