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by Arisztid on February 8th, 2010
Overdoses are not as pretty and painless as you think. Yes it would hurt and death is no way guaranteed. Pain is guaranteed.
Here are the severe side effects of Unisom;
Severe allergic reactions (rash; hives; difficulty breathing; tightness in the chest; swelling of the mouth, face, lips, or tongue); convulsions; decreased alertness; excitability; fast heartbeat; hallucinations; tightness or pounding in the chest; tremor; wheezing.
http://www.drugs.com/cdi/unisom.html
If you took 20 Unisom, you can bet that you are going to have a lot of that. At higher doses all of these severe side effects are going to be much more likely.
Note "severe allergic reactions." That is called anaphalaxis. You are not going to drift softly into that goodnight. You are going to be awake and aware as your bronchial tree locks tighter and tighter. You are going to struggle for breath and panic... this is a biological response. It is also not going to be fast.
Read the rest of those side effects. Do they sound like fun?
Signs of overdose: Symptoms may include coma; excitement; hallucinations; loss of consciousness; muscle twitching; seizures; tremor; weakness.
First, you might not lose consciousness or you may. Before you do, you would go into convulsions (I have had convulsions... they are agonizing), anaphalaxis (most likely), have heart palpitations and tachycardia (that is very frightening), and more.
People glorify the peacefulness of overdoses.
The reality of them is, if the person dies, they are usually found scrabbling for the phone in a pile of their own vomit, froth from their mouths, blood from where they bit through their lips or tongue in convulsions, and other not so gentle signs of their death.
If the person survives, which is very likely, they could have brain and/or other neurological damage.
For that matter, no suicide method is peaceful and drifting softly into that goodnight. The body is amazingly resilient and killing it is difficult.
I know someone with a metal plate in his head from where he put a pistol in his ear and pulled the trigger. He can barely move one leg due to the bit of his brain he blew out... and more.
That is reality.
Get help instead.
by srosa on February 8th, 2010
Rather than considering killing yourself, please seek help. I won't discuss the effectiveness of suicide methods, but I will speak to the pain subject.
When he was a child, my brother got under the kitchen sink where various cleaning chemicals were found. He emptied out part of the bottles, but my mother found him and thought he had drank some of them (he hadn't in fact). He had to be taken to the hospital and had his stomach pumped, and from both his first-hand descriptions and my mother's from watching him, it was absolutely horrific for him to go through.
Any large number of pills like that are likely to simply get clogged in your stomach and require you to have your stomach pumped. It is not something you want to experience. Furthermore, the permanent effects of surviving an attempted drug overdose could leave you with any number of problems or disorders, or even leave you a vegetable. If you think being alive is bad, wait until you're alive but trapped in your own body, completely unable to do anything but think of how miserable you are and regretting your attempted suicide.
I'll say it again: seek help.
by RosieGHM Jetpacker on February 9th, 2010
I don't know what Unisom is but if you take 20 pills of anything I'm sure you aren't doing yourself any good. if you don't die your stomach will have to be pumped and that isn't pleasant from what I've heard and then you will be in for some kind of hospitalization because anytime anyone does anything that is suicidal his/her mental stability has to be examined, investigated,evaluated, questioned. Happy Tuesday to you! :)
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Comments
That is truly one of the best answers I've read in a lot time.
by Astrid on February 8th, 2010
Sorry, I mean in a "long" time (no edit option).
by Astrid on February 8th, 2010
Thankyou very much. :D
by Arisztid on February 8th, 2010
Thankyou very much. :D
by Arisztid on February 8th, 2010
Your answer is wonderful, Arisztid - detailed to the point. Hopefully it will deter people from even thinking about overdosing.
by Whitehair on February 8th, 2010
Thankyou very much. :D I try to, when answering these things, provide the grim truth, hard up, from having seen survivors of suicide attempts (including in mental hospitals), seeing them come in to live, or die, in ERs, hearing stories of suicide scenes from the ones that really know... paramedics... and more, including first hand experience. Yes, I have tried. Yes, I have neurological damage. Yes... I remember waking up on the ventilator.
I try to strip the myth and glamour from a very UNglamorous thing.
by Arisztid on February 8th, 2010
Oh when I mentioned about convulsions, this is one of the ways I experienced them... fully alert. I also experienced them after someone tried to kill me, nailing me so hard that I fell to the ground, convulsing for, I was told, about 5 minutes... I do not remember that one.
by Arisztid on February 8th, 2010
That was good of you to share your story. I wish you all the best - you seem like a terrific person. : )
by Astrid on February 8th, 2010
Eh I am doing fine. The extend of the neurological damage due to the suicide attempts (two... yes, I am not the sharpest tack in the box), at this stage, is a slightly droopy eyelid. I really was lucky but not all are. I try to drive this through to people.
The attack, however, has resulted in permanent brain damage. I get along just fine, although I am likely to forget things like my wife's birthday or even mine. :P
by Arisztid on February 8th, 2010