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Suicide
OK I need help fast!! I've been going out with this guy all summer and he just IMed me and he's thinking of suicide!!! He's thought of suicide before but he's thinking of it again. My friend is going to talk to her teacher and try and see what's wrong. You see he has a beautiful girlfriend( me), wonderful friends and is putting a band together. I'm sooo scared for him. Wat can I do to comfort him?
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Tell an adult or someone you trust and they can help the situation. Let him know you'll always be there for him. Good luck! Hope I helped!
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Just be there for him. let him know that someone does love him. i know i have thought of suicide a couple of times but my friends have always ben there for me and showed me love and it made me not want to commit suicide.
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Once again younggrandma is right on the money, leaving me with little to do but chime in.
You can't comfort him. Suicidal ideation is NOT something you can just "get over". He probably has clinical depression, and that means he needs medical help. It's not his personality, it's not how he "thinks". It's an imbalance of chemicals in his brain, and you can no more fix that by being nice to him than you could fix a broken leg.
BE nice to him, sure, but don't expect that you can make things better for him that way. He needs professional help, immediately.
Also, remember that his problem is NOTHING to do with you. It's not that you're not nice enough, or pretty enough, or that his friends aren't good enough. He could be king of the world right now, and it wouldn't make any difference. So you mustn't feel guilty. His condition is not your fault.
The good news is that clinical depression can almost always be effectively treated with a combination of medication and talk therapy.
He should see his primary care physician immediately for a referral to a specialist, who will evaluate him. That specialist will probably be a psychiatrist, by the way.
I won't lie to you: it can take a while to find the right combination of medications for any particular patient. Sometimes QUITE a while. He'll need your support. But at the end of the road, he'll be himself again.
Good luck!
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Remind him of all that he has to live for, tell him that he is loved wether he can tell or not, remind him that it's always darkest before dawn, go see him if at all possible, remind him that YOU care, and that you KNOW that other people care too.
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You don't comfort him you go and tell an adult in his life and get him some professional help. He may get upset about it but, better than attending his funeral and then wishing you had only said something. Here is a website that may have some useful information.
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