Hey Pandas, Who In Your Life Could Have Possibly Saved Your Life?

My cat. Finding him on the side of the road last summer definitely kept me from killing myself. He helps remind me that there are some good things left

Recovering drunk here. Went into sober housing. It was a bad place. When i left they gave me 25 bucks and a night in a horrible motel with a liquor store next door. It was either go get drunk or call another sober drunk for help. In 10 minutes i had 3 people with me keeping my butt sober for thet night. Its frowned on but i married one of those people. Her and i have been together since. And ive been sober for 11 yrs now.

My wife saved me from me. ( those that are friends of Bill will know)

Most likely my friends at school. Lately I've been pretty depressed and stressed, but because of what I've been doing with them, such as writing a book, I want to see that through which gave me a reason to live.

My best friend caught me trying to kill myself, and stopped me. I'm still experiencing suicidal thoughts but I think of them and they go away temporarily, I'm grateful they care.

When l was 2 my mom was drunk and crazy so my gramma had to rescue me.

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My mom. Over this Summer, a series of online harassments hit me in a time of serious fragility, when I had only been out of psychiatric hospitalization for 2 months. I had no will to live, no sense of fear or caution, nothing. All I wanted was to end myself. My mom is good at getting me to admit things. She made me call the local hospital's crisis line, and per the responder's recommendation, drove me straight there, and upon arriving, gave the required info to the nurses and techs immediately and directly.

I spent a month in there. I regrettably managed to get on every safety order that existed there during my stay, but as I re-learned how to exist with the help of some serious medicating, I earned my way out of every one of them. I came home in late August, riddled with fresh trauma and scars all over my arms.

I've been out and going strong for almost half a year now. And I'm alive. Not going back anytime soon.

Thanks, mom.

My Grandpa that passed away from Alzheimer’s. He was the most honorable and decent human being I’ve ever known. The person that taught me what a healthy family should behave like. That trait clearly skipped a generation, but he was who I modeled my parenting off of with my kids. He was always teaching me something or talking to me about things and singing old show tunes and smiling. He was with me just about everyday after school for years and years taking care of me and keeping me safe from the world. He was probably more my Dad than any dad I ever had.

He earned 3 Purple Hearts in the army and all sorts of other medals, he was a paratrooper that would go into enemy lines and try to get POW soldiers out by the time he retired, after working his way up the brackets of course. He was just awesome in every way. He survived so much in his life and I loved sitting and listening to his stories. I remember he came to my school and did a presentation with me about WWII and brought his medals for kids to look at. I miss him still, a lot of things remind me of him.

He would sit outside with me on the stoop of his house and teach me about how lightning and thunder worked and gave me all the different ways to think about it. The scientific and mythological ways of seeing it. He brought me fishing and taught me at a super young age how to be patient and sit and fish quietly and to enjoy that quiet. He literally is the only reason I am the person I am today. I miss him a lot. I wish I could show him who I turned out to be because of him.

My parents. I wasn't exactly the most observant child, and I would have gotten myself into possibly lethal situations if not for them.

I am their only child, and my Oma and Opa's only grandchild, so I feel like I owe it to them all to stay alive and keep going, if not to make them proud then to avoid causing them pain.

The extended family I lived with from ages 12-16. My mom had just died; my dad got in a wreck and my uncle was taking care of him. My cousins and aunt hated me; I considered offing myself. For about 10 minutes. Then I realized the people I would be "getting back at" really didn't give a cr@p. Then I realized I annoyed them simply by being there. That seemed a better plan so I toughed it out and have been annoying people ever since.
Remember folks, outlive your enemies 😈

My boyfriend, I would have ended my life a long time ago if I hadn’t met him.

My camp counselor actually. For all of middle school I was in a pretty bad place and the outdoors was my safe/happy place. I would go backpacking through the YMCA every summer and I had this one counselor two years in a row and she clearly recognized the difference in my attitude from the last year. She sat me down and talked with me and I genuinely don’t think I would still be here today if she hadn’t. Superheroes really don’t always wear capes.

My best friend. I had a lot of problems with my mental health a while ago, and she kept me alive.
She lives pretty far away, so I was only able to see her in person once every one of two months, but those visits kept me going.

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I would not be here if I didn’t have my bsf . I would have either died from anorexia or suicide a long time ago.

My best friend. I’ve been suicidal since I was in fourth grade and tried taking my life on several occasions. I didn’t meet him until about two years later, but he keeps me from doing something stupid and talks to me constantly to make sure I’m ok.

My mom. She saved me 2 times actually. Once when I was choking on steak. And the other when I was drowning.

I can’t make comments right now and think I might’ve been banned? So I’m posting here so I can hopefully let some of you pandas know. I don’t know what I’m going to do in the time that I can’t talk to you pandas. Have a nice day my friends!

Random lady when I was 10.
I was walking on the side of a slippery cliff that was the only way to this waterfall that my mom wanted to show my family, and it was too narrow for my dad to help me like he normally did. I slipped, nearly falling into the shallow water around two meters below, and she caught me.
Will never forget it. Probably wouldn't of died but still.

My father.

My dad. Mom and dad split when us kids were young. I was always afraid of him because of his temper and alcoholism. He lived a few states away and would call every now and then. My sibs and me built a fort in our backyard. One winter I wanted to be by myself and went to the fort. It was winter and freezing. How could I heat it? I was about 8 years old so I knew nothing about the dangers of fumes. I grabbed our charcoal bbq and attempted to heat the fort with it. Mom called me because my dad was on the phone. We talked and I told him about the fort and I was proud I thought of a way to heat it. Very calmly but serious he explained to never use the charcoal bbq again for that purpose as it is very dangerous. I couldn't believe I could have slowed asphyxiated myself! Yeah dad!

My husband. If he hadn’t asked me out in 2004, I probably would have still been hanging out with my toxic former roommate who was a drug addict/ alcoholic sociopath. My husband also would bring me dinner when I was living alone and didn’t have much money for groceries.