Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-37296816-20181025074447/@comment-35711173-20181025193617

Carnageru,

Suicide becomes a problem when you start thinking about committing suicide or feeling dark or violent emotions. This is creepypasta. We are quite used to homicide, suicide, genocide, fratricide, patricide, werewolves, etc. in stories.

If you want reality and those aren't your emotions, you are going to need to start researching what it feels like to really be severely depressed and contemplating suicide. Start with asking "What does it feel like to be severely depressed" on Google. You will find answers.

You need to have a believable reason for suicide. Being pissed off at your mother might be cause to shit on her clothes but suicide is kind of a one shot. You can't repeat the act.

In my experience, female suicides are usually attention getting stunts - swallowing pills and then telling people. Men eat a bullet because they can't stand living and truly want to end it all and do it immediately with no chance of surviving. Maybe three times as many women as men attempt suicide but three times as many men actually die. (Not an exact count there.)

Is the character male or female? That does change things with patterns of depression and of suicide.

Dr. Bob