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Originally posted by Moni:
I know how he feels...I have a sister who used to use threats of suicide to get attention.
When I realized how twisted she was, I used to tell her to go ahead and jump (off of an overpass) or go ahead and do it (knives, pills, razors, whatever).
When she realized she wasn't getting the response she was going for she stopped the threats and found other ways to get attention.
The fact of the matter is, if you are unhappy, no one else on the planet is responsible for making you happy. Its when you depend on other people to supply you with emotions that you totally lose yourself.
My sister is a great example. No one but me would tell her to her face the fact that she needs to get herself together, that the world does not revolve around her and that she has to find ways to make herself happy if she is ever going to be even though they'd all talk about it behind her back.
Wouldn't you know, she called me a nutcase for telling her so and now I have just one more reason for them all to write me off.
She actually ended her last conversation with me by telling me to have another heart attack but this time to do her a favor and not survive it. The others tend to be in agreement, after the way I "hurt" her and all.
Granted asking for help is one thing, but to depend on everyone else to pull you out of your slump is a bad way to go about it...what happens next time when there's no one there to depend on for it?
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Moni, with all respect, there is a difference between someone who threatens suicide and someone who does it.
I know two adults who completed the act. A third person, I actually had to revive after they hanged themself to the point of passing out.
There is no way I would have "given them the pistol". Any of them.