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Appropriate way to respond to a suicide threat
#19284680 - 12/16/13 03:56 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I saw one on Facebook. Is it appropriate to respond with third eye blind? I'm too high to know if this is what a normal person would do
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Re: Appropriate way to respond to a suicide threat [Re: Roflspammer]
#19284695 - 12/16/13 03:58 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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If someone really wanted to suicide I don't think they'd advertise. Mostly he wants attention.
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Re: Appropriate way to respond to a suicide threat [Re: DrugsRGood]
#19284698 - 12/16/13 03:59 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Failpoll.
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Re: Appropriate way to respond to a suicide threat [Re: DrugsRGood]
#19284703 - 12/16/13 04:00 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: Appropriate way to respond to a suicide threat [Re: Me_Roy]
#19284718 - 12/16/13 04:03 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Oh. It's definitely for attention
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Re: Appropriate way to respond to a suicide threat [Re: abltsandwich]
#19284723 - 12/16/13 04:03 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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If it's something that somebody wrote on Facebook then it's probably just for ATTENTION
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Re: Appropriate way to respond to a suicide threat [Re: Roflspammer]
#19284740 - 12/16/13 04:06 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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My brother is constantly threatening suicide to get his way.. Or because things aren't going his way (he didn't get a certain job for example).. I got tired of it and long story short unfriended him on Facebook so I wouldn't have to see it anymore.
The longer version is he gets drunk and does stupid shit like going on rants on Facebook saying fuck this and fuck that. I told him he needs to go get help and stop this shit because it hurts the people who actually care about him to see him constantly threatening suicide, especially when his life isn't that bad. I also called him out on not ever following through and told him he was going to do it, he'd just do it. 20 minutes after he read it he went and made some long winded status update that basically said "Fuck you, I don't need your pity and if you think I won't kill myself then fucking watch". Almost definitely directed at me. He obviously wasn't going to stop doing this shit so I just unfriended him so I don't have to see it anymore.
Yeah sometimes I worry he will follow through, it's not as if he hasn't tried in the past while blacked out drunk.. But I can't stop him, he obviously doesn't care about what I have to say on the matter so all I can do is not subject myself to weekly, sometimes daily threats that lead me to hours of worry until he makes his next (sobered up) post admitting he's stupid and has a problem.
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Re: Appropriate way to respond to a suicide threat [Re: Shroomslip]
#19284747 - 12/16/13 04:07 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Almost anything people post of FB is for attention, IMO
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Re: Appropriate way to respond to a suicide threat [Re: The5thElement]
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Re: Appropriate way to respond to a suicide threat [Re: Roflspammer]
#19284779 - 12/16/13 04:13 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: Appropriate way to respond to a suicide threat [Re: Roflspammer]
#19284830 - 12/16/13 04:25 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Statistically speaking most people who commit suicide will do it in a way that offers no chance of intervention or chance of talking them out it. People who advertise it are mostly crying for help/attention.
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Re: Appropriate way to respond to a suicide threat [Re: Roflspammer] 2
#19284850 - 12/16/13 04:29 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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These conversations always go the same way, majority opinion always rules "Since they're just crying out for help you shouldn't take it seriously". That shit is callous as hell.
Imagine how desperate for human contact you would have to be to threaten suicide over it, and imagine how much more tempting the notion of actually going through with it would become when these outreaches repeatedly fail. I know a guy who threatened suicide repeatedly on Facebook. I'd only met him in person once so I never felt particularly obligated to respond, but guess what? Eventually he killed himself. I don't know how things went down between him and his closer friends before this happened but they seemed pretty shaken up by it.
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I would just tell the person; You do not have the guts do it.
might be risky for some to say, but then again.. when I do, I plant a seriouss doubt in their subconsciouss..
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Re: Appropriate way to respond to a suicide threat [Re: abltsandwich]
#19284866 - 12/16/13 04:32 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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abltsandwich said: Failpoll.

what are you talking about? the poll clearly has STAL option. Poll is valid.
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BlindSophist said: but guess what? Eventually he killed himself. I don't know how things went down between him and his closer friends before this happened but they seemed pretty shaken up by it.
Nobody said people who threaten it never go through with it. It's a shame and I feel for you if you were close to the person, but just imagine if EVERY suicide threat was taken seriously.
I mean shit, I've been in that boat, I wanted to die at one point. I never told anyone though, just hold on for enough time and things eventually get better (95% of the time I would say.)
Touchy subject to say the least.
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Re: Appropriate way to respond to a suicide threat [Re: schwarg]
#19284946 - 12/16/13 04:50 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Someone threatens suicide?
Bring him to the rope section at home depot.
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Re: Appropriate way to respond to a suicide threat [Re: Patlal]
#19285214 - 12/16/13 05:49 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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It's a high school teen age girl. She is a hoe
Attention whore in the literal sense
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Re: Appropriate way to respond to a suicide threat [Re: Roflspammer]
#19285264 - 12/16/13 06:08 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Wow, what makes you such an authority on defining the quality of that persons character? Clearly she is in pain, and having difficulty coping. Your comments are like throwing fuel on a fire. I hope someone close to you never struggles with thoughts of suicide, only to have some callus person tell them that they are an overly dramatic whore...
Good job! Perhaps you should read the empathy vs sympathy thread posted earlier today.
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Re: Appropriate way to respond to a suicide threat [Re: pslyke]
#19285285 - 12/16/13 06:14 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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pslyke said: Wow, what makes you such an authority on defining the quality of that persons character? Clearly she is in pain, and having difficulty coping. Your comments are like throwing fuel on a fire. I hope someone close to you never struggles with thoughts of suicide, only to have some callus person tell them that they are an overly dramatic whore...
Good job! Perhaps you should read the empathy vs sympathy thread posted earlier today.
Girl probably is a hoe. If she is posting suicide threats then she wants attention. She sounds like a brat who wants attention good or bad. Poor girl probably picks on people and fucks with other peoples heads just cause she can and gets away with it. Bringing those people to actual thoughts of suicide cause they're in pain, being picked on,beat up etc. Those are the people who need our attention directed upon, they're the ones who have difficulties coping with actual day to day living.
People who want to end their life do it and don't advertise it. cause the last thing they want to do is to be stopped.
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Re: Appropriate way to respond to a suicide threat [Re: BlindEye]
#19285746 - 12/16/13 08:06 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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This is how this shit went dowwwnnnn
Suicidal sally is Girl A
Random Girl B is dating Guy B Girl A is single and cheats with Guy B Girl B publicly tells everyone the story on The Facebook and --- get this --- tags Girl A in it
Girl A gets tons of flak from everyone because she is a dirty cheater Girl A posts suicidal status
OP posting 3rd Eye blind good response to turd
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