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If you want to be taken care of in a setting where your means of attempting suicide are limited psychiatric hospitalization may help. Not to say it's a fun place but it could be a place to get away from the stressors in your life and regain energy to keep on going. 

If you don't or can't be hospitalized then talking with friends and/or family and/or your significant other -- if you have one -- can also be a start. Having someone right next to you, helping talk you through it, can help keep you from attempting suicide and also will fulfill your need to be taken care of at that moment.

There are better means of getting people see that you're in pain than overdosing. Especially since overdosing doesn't just leave scarring, it can basically end your life as you know it (and I'm not just talking about death).

Talk, talk forcefully, be sure you get the help you need. If you're willing, try therapy. If you want to try medication, try that. Let the people that matter know that you need them to be there (allow it to be within reason, of course). If the people that matter can't help you or are burned out turn to professional help since that's what they are there for. It doesn't always happen on the first, second, tenth, etc. try. Your voice should be heard. Don't let other people silence you.