A while back
I went a little bit crazy and tried to off myself. I did this by taking a sizeable cocktail of paracetamol, ibuprofen and sleeping pills. A tip to people: If you do want to off yourself, overdose is the worst fucking way, it's excruciatingly painful and messy. Your blood might turn acidic and you spend hours puking until your oesophagus gets ripped to shreds from the strain and come damn close to liver damage. That was fucking stupid, yes.

Oh, and if you want some mild haha: When first admitted, I was in one of those temporary little rooms off of AnE. While there, I was put on a Saline drip, which an orderly mounted onto a pole, jolly good.

Suddenly, however, I needed to be sick. I knew where the toilet was, so I got up to run to it, I then realised I had an IV in. "Fair enough", thought I, "They're mounted onto rolly things so I can run with that." Except it wasn't. The fucker had mounted it onto a pole which was attached to the wall, so before I could do anything I ended up heaving on the floor and promptly passed out.

Upon gaining consciousness I saw the same orderly who had mounted my IV standing over me. What did he do? Offer words of comfort? No. The fucker told me off for being sick on the floor. What a cunt.
( B.T., Thu 12 Feb 2009, 22:59, 2 replies)

A good public service announcement, that.
Apparently*, paracetamol is the worst thing to attempt to OD with.
It tends to kill you by causing liver failure, but what people don't realise is that it takes several painful days for that to happen. In the meantime you have irreversible liver damage which, should you change your mind in all your agony, can only be fixed by giving you a transplant. You are therefore likely to end up dying slowly in hospital with all your friends and family knowing exactly what you've done. And you have to face them because you're not dead yet. I think I'd rather jump off a tall building.

*This was told to me by an emergency department doctor doing a study on the usefulness of activated charcoal. I choose to believe her without the personal experience.
(xanthine, Fri 13 Feb 2009, 5:29, closed)

Sounds familiar.
You get cardboard "pots" to be sick in, if they have an ounce of sense.
(mmmm curry doesn't really understand this sig lark, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 23:59, closed)