How can we help prevent suicide ?
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My first reaction to your question is to send you to http://suicidal.com/ . The reason for that is for you to see that there is immediate help for the severely suicidal.
To answer your question would take an enormous amount of time, as there are people who are trained to answer suicide hotlines and their training is no small amount of information. As a society, in my opinion, we are helping them. Just google "suicidal" and see how many different groups are there to help people not go through with it.
As far as convincing them that things can and will get better? Good luck. Often you cannot convince a truly suicidal person that anything will get better; they've been waiting a long $#@% time for that. They've reached their maximum on waiting. What helps is to understand and never, ever tell a person "that's a stupid idea" or "what an easy way out". Suicidal people are deadly serious, and this is no light matter.
I also would highly recommend, that if you are not a professional, trained in dealing with suicidal people, you not try to handle this sort of thing alone. Ask for help. Dial a hotline and hand the phone over, telling your loved one/friend that you are there for them, but that other people can deal with this very important crisis much better than you can. Always tell them you want them to live.
by showing them that we still love them.. and life doest stop at that pont.. everthing has its own purpose . well i believe she has to look at flowers and not at worms you know wat i mean. everything here on earth has its own purpose. God has purpose to every individual so tell him not to waste/loose his life by that circumstances. there are a lot of things that could happen... indulge him to church congregation,, particularly brn again then he will realize her purpose on the earth.
First of all, thank you for caring and trying to be part of the solution. Unfortunately, there is no easy answer to such a hard question. I've been on both sides of the fence before and I find that sharing my experience(s) does give them a little bit of hope, which hopefully starts them down the path to getting help. I tell those who are suicidal to get help from hospitalization because they are literally fighting for their lives. Thankfully, I am able to help some. Unfortunately, I am unable to help all. The best we can do as concerned people is reach out and encourage and not judge. A suicidal person is choosing a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Like I said, I can help some, but I can't help all.
You can not always promise someone that things will get better. Sometimes they do and somethimes they won't... the only thing for sure is that it won't get better if they are not here to help that process. You can tell that person how much they mean to you and how important their life is to yours, you can try to get them involved with something that would put them outside of themselves and their dark thoughts, such as helping someone else, it will give them a sense of purpose.
Also sometimes mental illness or drugs put people in a funk.
So does guilt. Never promise that things will get better unless they can make it better themselves.
There is something called QPR, that folks can be trained in, to help folks that may have suicidal ideation... that is helpful in preventing suicide.
Also being part of organizations like the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
See links below.
We can help prevent suicides by imparting good values to people. Value orientation must be conducted at least every year. We must also improve the living condition of every individual, albeit a continuing long process. Promote training skills to out of school youth in order to dissuade them from negative activities. We should also continue sports activities in our community. Invest time to make our planet worthy to live in. If we introduce to them positive thoughts surely their negative thoughts will transform. Show to them that every problem has a solution. Inculcate to their minds that problems are just challenges to another step for a good tomorrow.
With regards to your experience in life of depression, am proud that you have overcome it. I may not know you personally but i could read from your thoughts that you're a fighter in life. You built within you -- self-confidence. You ought to drive things in a right direction. What is important in life is believing in oneself.
The problem, and i`m speaking from experience, having tried it, but not going far enough to go through with it, and also having a friend commit it fully, is that when you mention the word "suicide" i find people clam up.
My parents did, my friends did, and so did other people who i sort of knew.
Thats the biggest problem in my view, because when your at your most vunerable, your at your most likely state to go and try suicide, and maybe even go the whole way, and actually do it.
The solution, for me anyway, is to recognise that people if they are down, that you need to stay in touch daily with them, and insist on them saying how they genuinely feel.
If you do, chances are, they`ll open up and bare their all, and thats a good thing, because chances are, if you listen, and they have someone who cares, there possibly less likely to try suicide.
And possibly even get to the point that sooner or later, the thought of suicide, will be alien to them.
Talking & listening, is the key.
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