I think that it's impossible to never have once thought of it—to at least have dwelled on the thought.
I still recall writing about how depressed I was back in middle school. We had this stupid little class where we were encouraged to go through some kind of 'introspection' and participate together in these small group projects. It didn't really have a practical use in teaching you any standard academic subjects, and I'm not actually quite sure what its purpose entirely was, but I just knew tons of kids were envious they didn't get into it since you'd apply and they'd accept randomly. I only applied because a few of my friends did, but ironically I was the only one who managed to get accepted in.
I honestly didn't think much of it. I suppose I was excited at first since this was
the class that everyone wanted to get in—but over time I just thought it was a nice break from the rest of the periods I had since it was one of the few classes where I literally
couldn't fail no matter how hard I tried.
While I had understood what suicide was for some time, I never actually thought much of it until I had started to become severely depressed because of my garbage academic performance. I was pretty stressed, and the reaction my grades got at home didn't help. It was then that I started to flirt with the idea of ending my own life, and I started trying to figure out what the most painless way to go about it was. I eventually came to the conclusion that falling was probably the most accessible.
(In hindsight, that honestly made no sense. I have no clue where I would have even procured a building tall enough to jump off, but whatever. It's not like I fault fourteen-year-old me for not being the brightest.)
Still, life had to go on in the meantime.
One day, in that class I mentioned, we had to write about how happy we were or something. Or, honestly, maybe it was to write down about the struggles we were facing—I forgot... Regardless, it was something along those lines. I wish I could see what I wrote back then, but all I know is that
it wasn't good. I think it detailed how miserable I was and that I honestly saw no future for myself. I'm also pretty sure it was fairly self-abasing.
My memory, if you couldn't tell by now, is abysmal—so I can't quite recall the response it brought when the teacher inevitably read it. Strangely, though, I don't think that I was spoken to much about it. I think the teacher brought me in a private session and talked to me about my feelings or something. If he did, I'm sure I ended up dismissing his words in the end because I literally have zero recollection of it.
I also think that I might have spoken to the principal? And I'm also fairly confident that my parents were told, but never spoke to me directly about it. I don't really care to know, anyway, and I have no intention of bringing it up with them now.
Looking back, I'm pretty sure I was just attention-whoring with what I wrote, anyway. I guess I was somewhat, for the lack of a better word, 'excited' by the idea of people finally getting to understand how I felt. I knew that the teacher would read my paper and that I'd have to go through the theatrics of explaining my writing. But honestly, I don't think it ever really came. That's why I can't be fully confident what actually happened since I could easily be conflating fantasy with reality.
Well, anyway, I ended up suppressing my suicidal ideations for a few years while I wasted my adolescence away playing games and watching videos online. I couldn't keep them down forever, though, and I ended up killing myself a few months ago.