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I want to help people who think of or try suicide.
Ok. I'm 13 and have thought of suicide before but that was before I found God. I want to help other kids that have felt the way I used to everyday. I am going on a week long mission trip in the nearest town but still people all over the world try/commit/think about suicide. It's hard to love God (which is the only thing that keeps me sane) in my house bc my mom isnt a believer and my brothers are too young to know Him and my older sister only pretends to love The Lord. No one but one person knows that I wanted to die. It hurts me to know that people dont know God and want to end their lives. I want to help the world but I live in a small town with a pop of 600 people and it makes me feel powerless. Sorry for it being so long and if anyone has any ideas please tell me. I want so badly to help.
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You sound like a truly beautiful person for wanting to do this and loving God:) I think maybe one thing you could do is share your story with others. How you used to feel and how you found God and how despite your family isnt into it that youre still able to be okay and arent suicidal anymore..that if you can do it having gone through all youve gone through, then anyone can. When you get older you can become a therapist and help people with your problems or maybe you can work for a suicide hotline to help sooth people into not committing suicide. You dont have to save the entire world, you could help save one life and thatd mean the world to them. Help your friends, help those kids at school who seem to have no one..be a friend to them, and those who are suicidal.. even the people who youve least expected it from can be suicidal so just be kind to everyone. Give people hope, give compliments, offer to be there for someone. Those are small things but could really mean everything to someone. Share with people the greatness of finding God and how they can too.. you cant force people to help themselves, but you can help them help themselves while letting them know youll be there along the way.. I think this is a very beautiful thing that youre trying to do by helping others and I believe youll do great things. I hope this helped, good luck!
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When you are a little older you could approach some of the voluntary organisations which provide telephone services which people can call when they feel that ending their life is the only option. Volunteers are welcome but you will have to be trained and coached in procedures. Those who call may have been pondering suicide for some time and their call may well be made in their darkest hour, so it is not a task to be taken lightly. You will definitely be making a difference and a mistake, even one which you make with the best of intentions, may be costly. And you need to be ready for virtually anything you might hear. Not easily shocked, or disturbed. Ready to hear total despair and perhaps hostility. You will be dealing with people at the very limit of what they can tolerate. You cannot judge them, cannot either condemn or pardon the person, or the events which may have led them to this dark place. Perhaps you might consider a professional career in the psychiatric field? It will require making academic choices, right about at the age you are now. Do not think that it is 'not a proper job'. It is. And well paid too, which it should be to reflect the effort you put in to gaining the professional qualifications. The desire to help is a great motive, just as doctors and surgeons are normally motivated by a desire to help the physical body and prolong and improve the quality of lives. Keep in mind that not all people you deal with will share your faith, or even have any religious conviction whatsoever in many cases. Best to consider the field as worldly and secular rather than religious at all in fact. Right up at the sharp end of humanity in all its diversity. It might be a career path worth looking into? We are more likely to find satisfaction and success in a job we have an interest in and care about. Best wishes.
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