[General Battuta]

I found a suicide note and blood in her room, but fortunately some kind fella found her tonight...passed out on an intersection and called an ambulance.

Oh, jeez. Got my fingers crossed for her and for you. Stay strong.

[Flipside]

Same here, my fingers are crossed for both of you.

[Enzo03]

I'd say my prayers are with you (they are) but I'm afraid I'd get flamed -- wait.. 

Best wishes regardless.

[LHN91]

  Been there.... stay strong and don't be afraid to take support wherever it may come from. Set aside some time to keep yourself in one piece, since if you're falling apart it's awfully hard to piece another person back together.

Above all, our best wishes are with you.

[Enzo03]

Last November my best friend told me that his father had went out to the woods (apparently hunting??) and even though it was late at night, he hadn't come back home yet.  A couple of days later he told me the bad news.  They found him in the woods the night my friend told me about this.  He was pronounced dead at the scene.  Upon this news my heart skipped a beat, fell, and landed with all the grace of a lump of burned oatmeal.

I sadly do not know how he felt through it, especially considering how the two were often getting in arguments, with a few times his father threatened to call the cops on him (?????).  I've lost loved ones before, but they were too distant for me to really feel the effect of their deaths, a fact which sometimes troubles me.

Just sharing because this reminded me of it.

[deathfun]

These past two pages have got me all down reminding me of my clinically depressed friend, the events leading up to my Uncle's death, my grandmother suffering from dementia...
D:

[Nuke]

behold the entropy of the universe! you are powerless to stop it!

[Firstdragon34]

The Light will come at the far end of the tunnel, hold on there!

[FireSpawn]

Well....****.
My heart and thoughts go out to you guys.
And Dilmah, I hope your sister pulls through. Both from her physical injuries and mental ones. And I hope you pull through too. I can't even begin to imagine what you're feeling right now. Don't be affraid to ask for help, man.

[CommanderDJ]

My thoughts and prayers are with you also, Dilmah. Stay strong, HLP stands with you.

[Dilmah G]

Cheers, guys. Means a lot. I woke up this morning with the most sobering feeling of numbness. She's in the hospital ATM and last I heard before I fell asleep the Police suspected an overdose of something was involved. What exactly that was, I don't know, but I'm going to be optimistic and hope it was just aspirin (which she's abused before to burn the lining of an organ or two off). She apparently is okay, I don't know much more beyond what the Hospital let slip over the phone.

I don't know why she did it, there was some ongoing trouble obviously but we'd had a conversation that day and I thought that she was fine. 

At least the heart ache for me is on the upswing, my thoughts are with you, Flip. And I really do appreciate the people who expressed support, last time she attempted suicide was in the middle of my Year 12 final exams and I really had no one. Same goes for the time before that, and the time before that.

[Nuke]

asprin is the worst thing to od on, i mean you got to take a lot of it. prescription painkillers are the best way to go and have killed more celebrities than i care to count. every time somone goes to the dentist they usually come back with pretty good drugs, which then get stockpiled and allocated to recreational use. off the shelf pills usually kills you with renal failure, not a fun way to go, but if the docs get ahold of you they will deny you your death.  3 boxes of sleeping pills couldnt kill be, but it did make me hallucinate something fierce, which was ****ing awesome. then i couldnt taste anything for a week after that. these days i think a bit o steel cable and a jump off a bridge will suit me best, and leave a hell of a mess for the others to clean up. there are also railroad tracks and shotguns which are foolproof. of course living in a part of the world with a total lack of bridges railroad tracks and the lack of a shotgun kinda limits my options but a diy drophang in the woods sounds feasible, i know the perfect place too. but i dont want to off myself these days ("things to do in hell" can wait), id deny the world somone who has the potential to be a serial killer. most serial killers start their careers in their 30s. not to be grim and all but if she went the off the shelf pills route shes probably totally fine.

[Enzo03]

You never cease to amaze me.

[Flipside]

Whilst most teenagers go through a difficult stage, which can actually often include thoughts of, or even half-hearted attempts at suicide, this sounds a lot more like a psychological issue that needs to be dealt with as soon as possible Dilmah, not only for her sake, but for yours also. Dare I say it, but it is selfish of her to hurt you like this, because it is not only her own life she is damaging, it is yours as well, especially when it is in the middle of your exams. It sounds like you have devoted a lot of time and effort on her behalf, and it is not unfair to ask for a little effort on her behalf in return.

Personally, I think this goes beyond a 'cry for help', especially if it has been attempted before, is there any way to talk to the hospital to ask if there are any other options open to you for helping her other than simply repairing the damage afterwards?

Either way, I am glad that things have, kind of, turned out ok, and hope your sister is feeling better soon.

[Dilmah G]

Well she's been going through psych's for the last 2 years now. Usually when this happens it's because she's been neglecting to take her medication, which is what I'm fairly sure happened this time. They actually said that she might be better by now, but whatever, I've heard that too many times for it to matter, haha.

I don't really know what the course of action is now - I don't have the information to make any suggestions for courses of action but once I do, you can bet that I will. **** this! This has happened too many times and I just feel like it's following a sine wave at the moment. The interviewers for my Army assessment day were so concerned by it that I'm fairly sure I was close to not being recommended to a selection board because of its effect on me and my commitments.

Good news is that she didn't OD on anything, bad news being that in exchange she apparently hasn't been eating for quite some time.

[haloboy100]

I knew a girl like that. She was pretty damn cute, too.

Taken seriously or not, I think all she needs is love.

[Bob-san]

I knew a girl like that. She was pretty damn cute, too.

Taken seriously or not, I think all she needs is love.

A tool can't fix broken goods. Anyways, it's tough. I don't know what else to say.

[LHN91]

I have some professional training in suicide intervention, actually, (my high school had an intervention team, we all received ASIST training, story for another day) but most of the knowledge I have leans more towards the detecting and defusing of imminent risk and convincing them that they themselves wanted to live for something, and finding (and convincing them to go to) appropriate counselling.

As such, there's really not a whole lot I can suggest, but the one thing I can say is that, despite the obvious desire to do so as you're family and you're emotionally invested in her wellbeing, to try not to get too emotional when talking to her. For lack of a good example, you want her to live for herself or for reasons of her own discovery, not because she sees you getting emotional over the idea of her committing suicide. The goal is to guide her to something to live for, without throwing reasons in her face.


TL;DR: Help her piece things back together, don't just try to shove the pieces together and pour glue over it all, it'll just shatter again.

Take this whichever way you want, it's the internet after all. But just know my heart is with you.

[Flipside]

My Father passed away between 6 and 7am this morning, he was asleep and moderately peaceful at the time.

[FireSpawn]

I'm sorry for your loss.