This video might have saved my life… I recently started taking antidepressants and yesterday I was highly considering overdosing (either that or jumping outta the balcony). I took the pills out of the pot, put them in my hand, opened my mouth and water bottle… until your voice, your words from this exact video resurfaced in my mind. The symptoms you had, your mom finding you… it just made me imagine: it could be me. What if I fail and my dad has to find me like this? What about my dog? So I bursted into tears and went back to sleep. I’m glad I stayed. Thank you for making this channel, man. I hope you’re okay.
After taking a small overdose a few days ago, I really needed this video to just purely show the potential harm and risk of misadventure involved in self harming via overdose. I also hadn’t relapsed with overdosing in 7 years and then did it twice in one day. Please continue to make videos like this because it’s so so important to know the reality of it
I almost overdosed in 2018. I was living alone in a city where I had no friends or family members and I was too depressed to make any new friends. It was a very very dark and hopeless time in my life. I planned for an overdose, thinking of everything from writing a letter to preparing the pills and even packing my stuff so that anyone who comes and finds me, sees a nice clean room instead of a mess! But then when it came to actually doing it, I thought to myself "just one more day." Just hang in there for one more day. What harm can one more day do? And I said this to myself for weeks until I got myself back to my hometown to my family for treatment. "Just one more day" potentially saved my life and definitely saved me from a lot of extra pain on top of the pain of an emotional breakdown. It took me 5 years to build myself up to a decent level, and it is still a work in progress. I still get a major panic attack every couple of months and occasionally feel hopeless and miserable. I'm working very hard on myself, hoping that in 6 month's time, I can finally declare myself fully recovered.
For me, there have been a lot of moments that were "just to see" what would happen and I am very lucky none were successful. Even if it's not successful, the body will react. Please see a doctor anyway.
