Is it possible to be suicidal without being depressed?

Hi! I'm a graduate of psychology and I'm not really the type to answer discussions here but mental health is something that's important to me so I wanted to drop by and give my thoughts. You don't have to have depressed to have suicidal thoughts, depression is a mental illness that literally changes the way your body composition. It can be from env......   1 reply

It's called 'the call of the void' when you think about hurting or killing yourself for no apparent reason. I experianced that often when I was around 14 to 16 years old and even now here and there. It can be a bit unnerving but us usually not threatening.   1 reply

Depressant chemicals aren't the only ones that can trigger thoughts of suicide, but *some* kind of chemical weirdness is behind it. Suicide is so contradictory to human beings that something has to be malfunctioning to make us want to stop living. Please try to figure out what's wrong. Even if you're not feeling sad, something is up. It could be a......   reply

we do have similar experience, I constantly joking about dying (I have a mantra of "we're all gonna die anyway", in almost every situation). I was once really depressed but I slowly getting over with it but sometimes it triggers me randomly. maybe it is just my coping mechanism or idk.   reply

I do have suicidal thoughts even when I'm not depressed or not under any kind of stress. I mean I get those thoughts even if I am happy.   1 reply

Lol it’s more like “I want to killmyself to get a reaction out of someone” for me, like I wouldn’t even be upset id legit just meet someone and then think “but what would they do if I killed myself   2 reply

I think yes, cause I was very happy some days ago and yet staring at a knife and thinking "Stab yourself"   reply

That's definitely possible. I experience that more often from the cause of nothing than having suicidal thoughts over depression. It's like "eh, i'm bored, i rather not deal with life so i should go find a way to die". Maybe it's boredom? Undiagnosed depression? BPD? I don't know.   1 reply

I think having Depression or being depressed is complex just as much as mental illness is. Depression isn't just 'being sad all the time' it has varying forms. Especially teenagers, typically I think experience the most than others, because their lives are most rapidly transitioning into adulthood. And the brain is at its most vulnerable because it......   reply