I know I said I'm leaving this site but all of my friends are asleep and I really have nobody to turn to.
My friend is cutting and he keeps saying he is going to kill himself in the next day or two. What should I do? For reasons I don't want to dive into, I am somewhat responsible for his depression and recent downturn so he does not want to listen to me, but I worry he is going to kill himself if I don't say anything.
Or picture him 20 years down the line with zero attachments and incredibly happy. But basically just stop him there's not much of a moral dilemma if the person isn't operating on a rational thought process.
If you really think he's going to do it, do whatever you can to stop him. He may not like you for it now but just picture him 20 years down the line with a wife and kids.
This is entirely true, which is why the only good way to go about it is doing what you can to shift his mindset. It's about giving him what he needs to get to the other side on his own.
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calling a suicide hotline while a minor won't get you anywhere these days. you'll just be put on suicide watch/a mental hospital which frankly is bad but if youre really ythat worried for them go forit
them getting mad is literally the least of your concerns, it's more they might actually panic and more seriously harm themselves if they're warned about anything that might impede their freedom of action, something most people don't like already even when in a rational state of thought.
Tell him he knows that what he's feeling will pass. Tell him that even if he doesn't want to experience a better side right now, he has wanted to at some point and he'll want to again. It doesn't matter what's true because what he's thinking isn't any more or less true than the other side. Tell him that he can reframe what he expects to get out of things and find new ways to think. Finding someone to talk to about exactly what's happening in his mind will help him understand it, and when he understands it it will get better and he'll be able to appreciate it being better.
Yeh it's a pretty poor idea to give indication like that. People either try to accelerate or try to avoid getting taken to the hospital so they can continue.
