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My name is Tiffany (my friends call me Tipher) and I am a married thirty-smoething with child. (there's 2 bad sitcoms all in one lol). I've been around a little and am ready to answer even the hard quesitons...no poking fun or anything, just my absolute honest opinion and advice.
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Hey there...
I need a lottle help as to what to do in this kind of situation... I just found out not too long ago that a secret was being kept from me about one of my friends tryin to kill herself and how she ended up in the hospital and everything... and all of that jazz... and how 2 of my other friends "saved her" by calling the ambulance and stuff... Once i got to think about it.. I wondered what the hell her problem was and how she got all of the attention and stuff(and she did this by overdosing on IBprofun by the way) And i was sitting there getting mad b.c. i didnt think that she should have done anything like that. And i was mad b.c. I've been feeling really depressed lately and nobody understands me.. so i was thinking about doing the same thing... only with soma's (since my moms a drug addict and i can get that stuff) and i cry at night thinking about this and how i wish that ppl would see and it didnt have to go to an extreme like this.. what should i do?
p.s. my friends mom just died yesterday and so now im really worried about her
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You are NOT depressed, you are NORMAL. Everybody goes through a "nobody understands me" phaze and since you said that you were mad because your "friend was getting all the attention" then this is not about being depressed, it's about being ignored. Suicide attempts in order to get attention are silly because you can actually DIE and there goes the rest of your life and what you could do with it. Yeah, you would fix them all real good wouldn't you? But you wouldn't be around to see it so what's the point.
Now, your friend could have done some real damage to herself with her ibuprofin OD-she probably thought that it wouldn't kill her but would get everybody's sympathy. It could have killed her-very slowly. by way of liver failure, kidney failure, or massive GI bleed.
And consider what actually happens to people who overdose (I spent 18 years on an ambulance, I know.) First, you take the pills and chances are, you puke them up before they get to you. OR you are half out of it and THEN puke and suck some ot it down your lungs and get aspiration pneumonia which will probably no kill you but will leave you miserable for awhile. Then, sombeody finds you and calls 911. Somebody like me show up and you get flopped on a stretcher and stuffed in am anbulance. We hook you up to a heart monitor, pulse ox, and you get a big IV. Then, if you fight, you just get sat on and all that stuff anyway. THEN, if you are not conscious enough, we stick a tube into your throat and breathe for you. At some point, somebody sticks a tube in your stomach and pours charcoal into it. And a tube into your bladder (3 guesses how it goes in). So does this still sound like a good idea?
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