How to get help to prevent Suicide

This article is designed to help you prevent suicide.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Courage
• Trust
• Friends
• Patience

1. Contact someone to ask for help.

2. Explain to them what is bothering you exactly. Do not hold back.

3. Take a deep breath and keep in mind they may still not understand.

4. Keep talking to anyone who will attempt to help and understand.
   You may have to try several people to reach someone who can and will help.

5. You have asked for help and now your getting it.
   This may include hospitalization. I realize this may make you feel worse.
   Keep in mind one thing, it is truly designed to help.

6. Accept the help as it is.
   Follow the things they are telling them.

7. Take the medications
   Do the therapy
   Do the work necessary to become the person you once were!

Tips & Warnings

• Always remember change doesn't happen overnight.
• Be happy with what you have, not unhappy with what you do not.
• If you live in a more secluded place try both online and phone connections
• If you share this article with your help they must remember that your asking for help.
• Do not condemn those asking for help
• Be gentle in your words
• Don't place blame use "I" words, "I feel like"...

[kimreid74]

on 7/31/2008 Send an anonymous e-mail to The Samaritans
Call 1-800-SUICIDE in the U.S.
Teenagers, call Covenant House NineLine, 1-800-999-9999
Look in the front of your phone book for a crisis line
Call a psychotherapist
Carefully choose a friend or a minister or rabbi, someone who is likely to listen.

You are lovable and you are loved.

[kimreid74]

on 7/31/2008 Suicide is not chosen; it happens when pain exceeds
resources for coping with pain.”

[kimreid74]

on 7/31/2008 I have been in that place of feeling so overwhelmed that only death seemed like a place of refuge. You just need to be with someone for now who can love you unconditionally without preaching to you. It might be a dog or a cat if a person isn't readily available. There is pain within you that seems too big to conquer but tomorrow things will look very different. Love yourself. Show yourself that you are worth being loved. Give yourself a gift. Choose life. Get out of the house. Go be with people. Safe people. And get some resources to help you get out of the deep pain you're experiencing. NOTHING is worth taking your life. No debt, no relationship problems, no news of illness, no job loss -- not any kind of difficult news. YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Another good resource is: http://www.metanoia.org/suicide/