[ SECRET POST #2333 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2333 ⌋

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Comments

QUESTION ABOUT SUICIDAL PEOPLE (how to help?)

[(Anonymous)]

So what the hell do you even do if someone tells you they're going to kill themselves despite you trying to, y'know, convince them not to? Do you call the police or a crisis hotline or something?

But what if they're not genuine? But then, what if they ARE?

D:

Re: QUESTION ABOUT SUICIDAL PEOPLE (how to help?)

[shinyhappypanic]

call their parents/sibling/guardian asap if you can. if they're saying they are right about to do it or do it tonight or tomorrow morning or whatever, call the police.

Re: QUESTION ABOUT SUICIDAL PEOPLE (how to help?)

[pantswarrior]

My experience: Call the police for their area, give them the person's info so they can show up at their door. If they're serious about suicide, you may save their life. If they're not and are just doing it for attention, they'll be horribly embarrassed - AS THEY SHOULD BE.

Re: QUESTION ABOUT SUICIDAL PEOPLE (how to help?)

[(Anonymous)]

Not the OP of this thread, but I'm always worried that if I try this with my mom (who has taken to responding to 'what do you want for Mothers' Day/Christmas/birthday?' with "a gun so I can shoot myself," it might make her worse, because for her the only thing worse than being upright and breathing is people knowing that she's depressed/has problems. She made some kind of reference to suicide at work recently in front of a coworker who understandably flipped out and called the cops, and that led to my mom threatening suicide again when she got home that day, because she was so ashamed that her work sent her to crisis counseling. It's become almost a weekly thing, and I'm afraid that I'll miss the one time she's not just threatening suicide for attention. I mean, she's killing herself slowly via various addictions that she refuses to get help for, because she's been depressed her whole life, but it's still scary to think what she might do while throwing herself a pity-party. I love her, but it's frustrating that she won't take professional help when it's offered.

Re: QUESTION ABOUT SUICIDAL PEOPLE (how to help?)

[(Anonymous)]

do it anyway because she needs help

(unless you think she will get help of her own volition)

Re: QUESTION ABOUT SUICIDAL PEOPLE (how to help?)

[(Anonymous)]

Your mother sounds like a horrible, manipulative, vindictive excuse for a human being, and yes she does ned help. Is there an adult in your lives who can get her committed? Because her saying those kinds of things off the cuff IS NOT OK.

Re: QUESTION ABOUT SUICIDAL PEOPLE (how to help?)

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, I'm kind of laughing, because as far as manipulation on her part goes it doesn't really work. It's gotten to the point where she's kind of 'the boy who cried suicide.' I've actually been a legal adult for a long time, I'm just one of those people who tends to gravitate towards the internet because making things like eye contact and phone calls are anxiety-inducing and I have to work up to them. Pretty much all our relatives are either in worse mental shape than she or I am, or live too far away to help, or don't care to help, or some combination of the above. My mother is enrolled in an outpatient rehab clinic that her insurance pays for, and I make sure she gets to her appointments. Getting her enrolled in the program was one of those things I worked up to, but it's a 'lead a horse to water' situation. Her case-worker knows she threatens suicide so people will treat her with kid gloves and is trying to get her medicated and in therapy, but it's slow going. Mom's self-aware enough to realize that it's one of the reasons lots of her old friends don't talk to her much anymore, and she is trying to change her coping mechanisms. I know from dealing with my father, who was a danger to more than other peoples' patience and himself, that having someone committed is not an easy thing. If the outpatient clinic doesn't work out, she may end up enrolling in inpatient, which is basically her committing herself.