Is it normal that i've attempted suicide and have these side effects:

Some background: beginning of summer last year was when this happened. I had gotten into a really stupid argument with my friends and we weren't talking to each other. I'd left any online communities I was in a few weeks ago. I was isolated as shit. I also had nothing to do. I'd just kinda pass every day watching netflix playing video games and jerking off.

One night, I was rewatching community, and I was in a bad place. I thought I'd probably end up being another drone in the future, living a shell of a life in corporate america with no real decision making power or purpose or some shit. I had no one to talk to, I had just reasoned away anything to look forward to in life, and really had nothing. There are more reasons but naming everyone explicitly puts me in a bad place.

The community theme song played, and there was one lyric "I can't count the reasons I should stay // One by one they all just fade away". This lyric just kinda stuck in my mind. Look away if you're squeamish. I took an iphone charger, and made it into a noose. I tightened it around my neck. I was about ready to hang it on the ceiling, when I decided to check the knot. It wasn't satisfactory for me. So I took a thick audio cable and made a stronger noose. Before hanging it from the ceiling, I changed my mind (the view from halfway down).

Then I just remember feeling nothing, and then a wave of emotion, like that had been all that saved me. A month later I'd recovered mentally, I had a brand new outlook on life, that I continue. I live in the moment, for the fun, the laughs and the emotion. I try not to think about the future (though I do suffer from anxiety) too much.

Whenever I hear the community theme song or think about ending up working in corporate america, hell even watching community, any lines of thought from that night, I just get this weird feeling. Time slows down. I feel detached from the situation. I feel an internal pain in my chest, below my heart, my lungs turn to ice. It can be almost paralyzing, it was the first few times it happened.

I haven't told a single person this story, but I know talking about things helps. I don't know why I posted here, but ig is my experience after this normal? And maybe further, what do I do?

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  • RoseIsabella

    I'm no expert, but what you've described sounds like some sort of flashback to me. The sense of sound, and sense of smell are two senses that have tendency to really take people back, and bring back memories. I once crashed my car to Losing My Religion by REM.

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