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Suicide Prevention Thread Christanon 11/14/18 (Wed) 22:29:38 4246d3 No.727980

I want to make a thread that talks about suicide and how we can help those who are suicidal not make the ultimate mistake, as well as praying for those who are at risk. I’ll start of with a prayer request: my friend Marco told me today that he’s wanted to kill himself a few times in the past, and at times he’s been very depressed but refused to say anything about it. Besides prayer, what can I do for him?

Christanon 11/14/18 (Wed) 23:29:39 283189 No.727989

Ask what else you can do to help him. Be there to listen to him. I myself have been severely depressed for nearly 5 years and have been suicidal to varying degrees during that time.

Christanon 11/15/18 (Thu) 01:22:37 201ebc No.728012

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>>727980

>and how we can help those who are suicidal not make the ultimate mistake

You can't.

t. tried to kill myself several times

The only thing you can do is pray. When somebody wants to kill themselves and is about to do it they're already too far gone for anything to reach them. I mean, seeing a psychiatrist if you're feeling depressed on a constant basis is probably a good idea, but if someone suffers from something like clinical depression or bipolar disorder they're likely to have delusions and to convince themselves they're fine to begin with (or worse, to find pleasure and pride in being depressed).

Christanon 11/15/18 (Thu) 01:26:13 620ea6 No.728014

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If someone close to me was suicidal I honestly have no idea what I would do.

Christanon 11/15/18 (Thu) 01:54:56 e74327 No.728016

The cause of such peoples' problem can often be someone else who torments or mocks them so ideally dealing with that would solve the problem.

Either getting them away from that/those individual(s) or getting them to stop, or finding another way for the afflicted individual to personally cope with the problem.