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 Void_Dragon
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 Re: How to respond to a suicidal person  [Re: tomk]
#6945708 - 05/21/07 01:41 AM (5 years, 12 days ago) |
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The answer is everyone making an effort to be nice to people and themselves everyday. One nice person can change someones life.
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Pulsating
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Re: How to respond to a suicidal person [Re: Void_Dragon]
#7017382 - 06/06/07 09:00 PM (4 years, 11 months ago) |
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Use a process to bring them to present time (now) because a suicidal person is, I am sure you will find, living in the past (consumed with something in the past - same thing)...and the past exists only in the mind.
So, use a process to bring them (and their attention) to now and the exterior world instead of the past/interior world.
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"I communicate, therefore I am" - I
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vitadura
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Re: How to respond to a suicidal person [Re: Pulsating]
#7094164 - 06/26/07 08:56 AM (4 years, 10 months ago) |
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The ignorance of human beings inceasantly amazes me.
When a person confronts another with overflowing emotions and thoughts of despair, one, by nature, should not refuse to listen, help, or comfort the person simply because one believes suicide is wrong. That is like a doctor refusing to cure a gay man or a lesbian with AIDS simply because the doctor believes homosexuality is wrong. This just isn't acceptable in today's society (or at least it shouldn't be), as it is a completely ignorant act.
Thanks for the post, tomk. I wish they had told us this in health class instead of "Tell a teacher if your friend wants to slit his/her wrists." It would have been far more effective and would've helped me deal with myself as well as my peers throughout middle and high school.
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 MrBump
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Re: How to respond to a suicidal person [Re: tomk]
#7628278 - 11/12/07 09:33 PM (4 years, 6 months ago) |
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i found my one of my best friends one and a half years ago, hangin from the rafters in the attic of our rental.
if only i had listened to him, he would say shit like "I am going to hell." constantly. I would just blow it off b/c he would act like that all the time.
the last night I saw him he was watching that god awful movie "the Passion." he said " I have a diease and it cant be cured." I rolled my eyes and went to bed.
this being said, i dont blame myself, i dont think it would have been stopped. but I wished i could have listened a little more to his problmes...
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MOTH
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Re: How to respond to a suicidal person [Re: MrBump]
#7631771 - 11/13/07 04:40 PM (4 years, 6 months ago) |
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It's definitely difficult to know how to approach people that far deep into their heads, even if they are friends. 
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dstark
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Re: How to respond to a suicidal person [Re: MOTH]
#10652209 - 07/10/09 09:50 AM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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i know this is old threat, but i want to say thanks to the author, very well written!!
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Icelander
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Re: How to respond to a suicidal person [Re: dstark]
#10652793 - 07/10/09 11:30 AM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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I'm the ghost writer. Back from the dead.
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“What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself.”
― Ernest Becker
"Beneath the civilized veneer, man remains the supreme predator. Cursed with what he believes is understanding, his true soul blossoms godlike in the heart of the nuclear inferno."
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LuSiD9
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Re: How to respond to a suicidal person [Re: Void_Dragon]
#10653000 - 07/10/09 12:15 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
Void_Dragon said:
One nice person can change someones life.
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Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.
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Re: How to respond to a suicidal person [Re: Icelander]
#12577191 - 05/17/10 01:22 AM (2 years, 15 days ago) |
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How judgemental you are and out of touch. Pride goeth before the fall.
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Icelander
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Re: How to respond to a suicidal person [Re: Anonymous #1]
#12578335 - 05/17/10 10:03 AM (2 years, 14 days ago) |
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“What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself.”
― Ernest Becker
"Beneath the civilized veneer, man remains the supreme predator. Cursed with what he believes is understanding, his true soul blossoms godlike in the heart of the nuclear inferno."
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MrBump
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Re: How to respond to a suicidal person [Re: Anonymous #1]
#12582547 - 05/17/10 09:44 PM (2 years, 14 days ago) |
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Quote:
Anonymous said:
How judgemental you are and out of touch. Pride goeth before the fall.
Dude, why the fuck did you bump this thread?
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If it weren't for the bloody corpses, I wouldn't have any corpses at all.
There are two ways to get to the top of an oak tree: start climbing or sit on an acorn.
Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?
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aiyobro
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Re: How to respond to a suicidal person [Re: MrBump]
#12588347 - 05/18/10 07:13 PM (2 years, 13 days ago) |
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fuck em' in the ass
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