Do you know how to deal with someone who is going to commit SUICIDE?

@diamania (7011)
Netherlands
November 21, 2009 9:11am CST
I know somebody who is going to commit suicide somewhere between now and a few weeks probably. How should I deal with it? Should I stop him/her? What? Please tell me about your opinion and possible experiences.
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@syankee525 (6261)
• United States
21 Nov 09
having to deal with this myself with freinds and family. pointing how much they wil be miss if they do it, and also letting them know this isnt the proper way dealing with anything going wrong in thier life as well. but you have to be firm but understanding with them. but letting them these things and how they should seek and get help to deal with thier issues they are facing, but i also point out how it could be so much worst and there is people out there have it way worst then they do. and if they still dont seek help and still talk about it, you must then let someone know this, i know here where i live at you can call the cops and they will either let them go and get help or make them get help. but you have to be very careful how you deal with these people for sure. but allowing them to do it, naw it will be hard for you to see you did nothing to stop them at all.
• United States
21 Nov 09
with her pshcail issue yeah i was younger when i hurt my back had a spinal cord injury and it totally turn my life upside down. but she will learn to work with it, and her being rape is sad, no female should have to go through that but i do disagree with you on its not your job. hate to say this it is now. you have to do whatever you need to do to keep her save from herself like my nephew came to me and said he want to kill himself, and if i sat there and didnt do nothing at all then he did i would be at fault for not doing anything at all, not talking him to admitting himself to seek help. so if you cant talk her into seeking help or telling her family so they can do whatever need to be done to protect her from herself shame on then, she came to you for a reason, having the faith in you and if she get upset and piss off at you for doing what needed to be done no matter if she like it or not, later down the road she will be grateful to you for saving her life. so yes you have to protect her from herself and if you dont then you are jusr so wrong and i could think of some other things too. tell her parents tell someone what she is thinking about doing, save her life
@diamania (7011)
• Netherlands
21 Nov 09
Maybe I didn't state it but I am not the only one who knows it, in fact a lot of people know it. I want to save her for sure but I don't think I can help her, as I understand what she has been through and well she's physically deteriorating by the second. According to doctors she is only allowed to walk for 15 minutes daily but she does for hours, she's fighting to make the best out of her life, but we both know that she's not able to cope with it much longer. I have offered my services to her, I said talk with me if you have the urge, you can always call me, even in the night, always, literally. But she says she's already talking with a lot of people anyway and she claims it doesn't help her. I know with who she's talking because I've been talking with the same people ( literally, I was like with who are you talking then? "Yeah, *name*","Oh I know him") I once spoke to when I was more or less like:"My life is **** so leave me alone" and why doesn't it end here. Those guys have helped me regain my life until recently, it's gone wrong again, I don't go outside anymore either, so if they can't help her nobody can not me, not herself, not her parents, nobody. We've made an appointment to have some fun next weekend, then I'll talk with her about alternatives...
@diamania (7011)
• Netherlands
21 Nov 09
Thing is, I understand the situation where she's in. She has severe physical problems which means she has to give things up and let go at the age of 18 already, and in combination with her being raped when she was smaller is just too much for her. I fully understand her, though I haven't been in the situation where she is in. But I can't say to her you shouldn't do that because yeah I do understand her thoughts and I know that when the situation comes closer and reach the point in which she says she's really going to do it anytime soon that it's not my job to defend her against herself because I could defend her for a day but who says she won't do it the next day? I would be really in complete confusion and sadness when she'd do that because she's a good friend of mine and we call each other a lot. We don't see each other too often because of my problems, so I can't help her even if I would want to.
@today2009 (160)
• China
21 Nov 09
I have not really experience before ,do not know how to do .I do not really understand how you have this idea.Difficult to find the police!
@diamania (7011)
• Netherlands
21 Nov 09
Well, I know what the police is going to do, so it's no option, she'll be administered in the same institution I was in before and she'll turn crazy.
• China
22 Nov 09
Maybe we come to a different country,there are differences of cultural understanding.Very much hope that you and friends to pay!With exchanges ,learn form each other!