Has Religion ever made you suicidal?

[Spiderman]

Has religion ever made you suicidal?

I was in a Protestant Pentecostal drug rehab center in Amarillo Texas called "life challenge."

Early in the morning while I was really tired we would have to sing songs and Praise Jesus all the time.

They would also bash my personal beliefs.

I decided I would go into the desert and just pray my own way and die wandering the desert seeking enlightenment.

The police found me and put me into a psych ward. Then they put me on a bus and shipped me to Montana.

I would not call it a suicide attempt. I would liken it to Buddha starving himself beneath the bodhi tree looking for enlightenment.

 

[Kelly of the Phoenix]

I don't know, to be honest. I had a couple of attempts with pills growing up, but this was before I learned what kind of pills they are kinda matters (I took an entire bottle of antibiotics). I did it because my family is filled with egotistical narcissism and psychoses. Even when I wasn't actively trying, I had secret tapes I had recorded and stuck in my dresser drawers, saying good bye and everything. I just wanted the pain to stop.

 

[Quintessence]

I can't say it has. I mean, not in a remorseful or depressive sort of way that you probably mean. When you recognize that humans, in spite of their wonders, are creatures wreaking havoc upon the rest of the worl (yourself included), it's kind of hard to not acknowledge that one of the best things I could do for the planet is end myself. I allow myself a bit of selfishness in that my love of the beauty of this world makes me want to keep kicking around in it. And Druidry definitely emphasizes a love of the world.

 

[Terese]

Never. Being religious (to me) affirms life, and is generally comforting

 

[JoshuaTree]

Where in Montana?

 

[LuisDantas]

Nope. But that is a complicated matter.

My own personal understanding of what qualifies as a religion would probably disqualify any environments that led to that.

But that is not a given. And I am in no way denying that oppressive environments that lead to suicide and consider themselves "religious" exist.

 

[Jainarayan]

If anything, religion has kept me from ending. When I was Catholic I believed it to be a mortal sin that would put me on the Bullet Train to Hell. As a Hindu I believe I'll just have to come back and do it all over again. It's like pushing the reset button or resetting the counter, but you never get to the bell. Karmic Groundhog Day.

 

[robocop (actually)]

Has religion ever made you suicidal?

I was in a Protestant Pentecostal drug rehab center in Amarillo Texas called "life challenge."

Early in the morning while I was really tired we would have to sing songs and Praise Jesus all the time.

They would also bash my personal beliefs.

I decided I would go into the desert and just pray my own way and die wandering the desert seeking enlightenment.

The police found me and put me into a psych ward. Then they put me on a bus and shipped me to Montana.

I would not call it a suicide attempt. I would liken it to Buddha starving himself beneath the bodhi tree looking for enlightenment.

Yes, I've thought of commiting suicide because of Mormonism/The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I don't feel that way now; I'm just trying to detail my life more completely

 

[Revoltingest]

I've never felt any call to suicide.
But murder....that has some appeal.

 

[PureX]

Nothing, so far, has ever made me suicidal. Even 'hitting bottom' from 20 years of alcoholism, still did not make me want to die. It just taught me that I had no idea how to live.

 

[Spiderman]

Where in Montana?

Kalispell