The Depression Chat - Symptoms, Assistance, Medicines and More.
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[QUOTE=Cell;32277927]Close friend of mine just tried to kill him/herself. How should I comfort them?[/QUOTE]Talk to them and just calm them down. I've dealt with a friend of mine trying to kill herself on multiple occasions. All I did was just be there and comfort her and kinda just ease her down a bit.
[QUOTE=Evilan;32277519]Hopefully those drugs eventually work, because for as long as this thread has been around they haven't helped you get much better.[/QUOTE]
stop posting please
[QUOTE=junker|154;32278528]Elaborate why he tried to kill himself? More information is needed.[/QUOTE] Thanks for the advice, Pedro. And Junker, I'm not entirely sure of their motives. I'm guessing it was a cry for help. They have a history of clinical depression, and I honestly think that he/she is overworked. He/she is in cross country, a comedy club, and our school's highest honors program. They might've tried to do it because of too much work and seemingly no way out. Our school's honors program is ridiculous in terms of homework, trust me. But these are all just guesses; I don't really know why they tried to kill themselves.
Talk to your friend about it if you don't know why.
I am not saying probe for answers, but ask if he wants to talk about it, and go from there.
[QUOTE=ScoutKing;32278910]Talk to your friend about it if you don't know why.
I am not saying probe for answers, but ask if he wants to talk about it, and go from there.[/QUOTE]
Okay. He's still in the hospital, but I'll ask him gently after some time has passed. It's been a weird day...
[QUOTE=Cell;32279068]Okay. He's still in the hospital, but I'll ask him gently after some time has passed. It's been a weird day...[/QUOTE]
Be goodhearted and warm, be natural and calm. Try to talk about some other stuff first and try to make your way to the suicide attempt without asking directly. Make him feel needed or loved. Try to give him the impression of being understood.
[QUOTE=Cell;32279068]Okay. He's still in the hospital, but I'll ask him gently after some time has passed. It's been a weird day...[/QUOTE]
You could visit him.
Is he on a 72 hour hold/psychiatric hold right now?
golf is depressing
[QUOTE=Moose;32282309]golf is depressing[/QUOTE]I always get really pissed off if I don't do well at the driving range, but on the course I usually feel pretty good after the round.
I just cleared up a shitload of conflict with my ex, we even managed to have a casual conversation. I would go as far to consider her my friend now.
so much conflict has been resolved tonight, this is the best I've felt in months.
[QUOTE=Moose;32282309]golf is depressing[/QUOTE]
Ah yes golf, the best way to ruin a good walk.
I still enjoy it.
It's actually pretty good upper body exercise too, throwing your bag into the lake and demolishing your cart with a 3 wood is very strenuous.
Sigh. I was walking across campus at my high school today and saw one of my friend's who's been deeply suicidal before, and I exclaimed: "Oh hey, look it's (name)!" and a friend who was walking beside me said "Don't you mean, 'Oh hey, look it's that hoe!'?" and apparently the rumor is that she's fucked everyone and anybody starting with a 10th grader when we were 8th graders. ofc it's bullshit and I told him it was.
the thing that gets me is that she's close enough to fucking a 10th grader now. I know she's given him handjobs and blowjobs and he's fingered her, etc. personally, I can't stand the fucker because he's an asshole. and I know that if she does anything else like that now and they break up (which they will) if it's a loud and messy break-up she will be the school whore and she will try to kill herself again. So I'm stuck in between a rock and a hard place. honestly, I'm just waiting for the break up to happen. It may be months, but it will come and she'll be devastated, etc. I wouldn't be so worried if we weren't freshman. if shit falls apart she has another 4 years of people making fun of her
Need some help.
I've been feeling awful lately. Worse than I've ever felt before. I've had depression before, but not nearly as bad as this. I was on prozac for a couple months, and it only worsened things. During the summer I felt good, and thought that I had finally managed to shake off whatever I had been feeling before. But now, getting back into the school year, shit is getting worse day by day.
Social anxiety/fear and paranoia has an awful grip on me and I've been isolating myself quite a bit. My friends know that something is wrong, but don't know how to go about it, so they leave me alone. I get the feeling that they don't like being around me much lately, and I don't blame them. Routinely, I would hang out with them afterschool, but I haven't had a word from them. Class becomes shit when everybody steers clear of you. I don't want to wake up, I don't want to go anywhere, I don't want to do any work at school, and I feel like this shit is going to take me straight downhill. I've been thinking about suicide obsessively, and I don't really know why. Came straight home after class today and curled up in a ball and cried my eyes out.
Something is wrong, and I don't even know what it is.
Oh man I was like that in junior year of high school.
but anyways here's what you maybe do;(or what I did, I don't try to relate myself like that.) Just try to hang out with your friends. It might be painful at the start, since you've been isolating your self for so long, but you will get into the grove of it again.
Exercise a lot. I mean I got so fit. Runner's high was my best friend junior year.
Vitamin C and Vitamin B12 which are both over the counter stuff.
Anyway.
Try to keep your head held high. You are a great individual and you don't need me to tell you that.
[QUOTE=Back_Slash;32293595]Oh man I was like that in junior year of high school.
but anyways here's what you maybe do;(or what I did, I don't try to relate myself like that.) Just try to hang out with your friends. It might be painful at the start, since you've been isolating your self for so long, but you will get into the grove of it again.[/QUOTE]
I've been around my friends, but I've been really distant. We can all make each other laugh, but once I start acting like a sad dog, they leave me well alone.
[QUOTE]Exercise a lot. I mean I got so fit. Runner's high was my best friend junior year.
Vitamin C and Vitamin B12 which are both over the counter stuff.[/QUOTE]
Really been meaning to get into exercising. I need to, but I never have the energy.
[QUOTE]Anyway.
Try to keep your head held high. You are a great individual and you don't need me to tell you that.[/QUOTE]
Much love.
[QUOTE=junker|154;32279120]Be goodhearted and warm, be natural and calm. Try to talk about some other stuff first and try to make your way to the suicide attempt without asking directly. Make him feel needed or loved. Try to give him the impression of being understood.[/QUOTE]
Thanks for the advice. And I'll probably visit him next week, ScoutKing. The doctor's say he'll make a full recovery, but I think he needs time.
JDK
thanks for the heart
I enjoy your posts, they're vitrolic
[QUOTE=Turnips5;32295917]JDK
thanks for the heart
I enjoy your posts, they're vitrolic[/QUOTE]
thanks
I've never heard them described like that
[QUOTE=JDK721;32296320]thanks
I've never heard them described like that[/QUOTE]
full of righteous anger :v:
[QUOTE=Turnips5;32296350]full of righteous anger :v:[/QUOTE]
honestly I'm generally not even mad when I post
you'd have to say something really fucked up to make me mad
[QUOTE=JDK721;32296367]honestly I'm generally not even mad when I post
you'd have to say something really fucked up to make me mad[/QUOTE]
yeah I don't tend to get genuinely furious on the internet either
which reminds me, if I insulted any of you reading this right now, I probably didn't mean it
talk is cheap and I tend to fling around a lot of words at people who refuse to see reason
[QUOTE=JDK721;32296320]thanks
I've never heard them described like that[/QUOTE]
Synonyms for vitriolic.
"venomous, scathing, malicious, acid, bitter, destructive, withering, virulent, sardonic, caustic, [B]bitchy [/B] [I](OH WOW!)[/I], acerbic, envenomed, dripping with malice There was a vicious and vitriolic attack on him in the tabloids."
[QUOTE=ScoutKing;32297330]Synonyms for vitriolic.
"venomous, scathing, malicious, acid, bitter, destructive, withering, virulent, sardonic, caustic, [B]bitchy [/B] [I](OH WOW!)[/I], acerbic, envenomed, dripping with malice There was a vicious and vitriolic attack on him in the tabloids."[/QUOTE]
I know it's not exactly a positive adjective, but what matters is that he enjoys my posts, and that's why I said thanks
can you stop posting in this thread?
I hide my sadness behind jokes.
I should become a clown.
So you want to become the next president?
Interesting....
[QUOTE=ScoutKing;32297826]So you want to become the next president?
Interesting....[/QUOTE]
My fellow Americans. If you elect me, I will try as hard as possible not run this country into the ground.
Does anyone else feel like everyone you see is useless, and it's not that you don't have the courage to talk to them, it's just you think they are annoying and a waste of human resource to even bother.
[QUOTE=JDK721;32297685]I know it's not exactly a positive adjective, but what matters is that he enjoys my posts, and that's why I said thanks
can you stop posting in this thread?[/QUOTE]
I meant it in a kind of "sticks to his guns and doesn't give a fuck" sense
ScoutKing nobody asked for your input this time
[editline]15th September 2011[/editline]
that was definitely a poor choice of word, nvm
[editline]15th September 2011[/editline]
didn't realise it had so many negative connotations
[QUOTE=Lanopo;32299509]Does anyone else feel like everyone you see is useless, and it's not that you don't have the courage to talk to them, it's just you think they are annoying and a waste of human resource to even bother.[/QUOTE]
What are human resources?
Because you can't exactly waste shit, piss, sperm, and saliva.
[QUOTE=Lanopo;32299509]Does anyone else feel like everyone you see is useless, and it's not that you don't have the courage to talk to them, it's just you think they are annoying and a waste of human resource to even bother.[/QUOTE]
no
why do you think they're a waste?
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