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<blockquote data-quote="toughlovin" data-source="post: 668122" data-attributes="member: 15801"><p>On the suicidal thing.... if he is threatening suicide then tell him you will help him get help. Definitely call the police if he refuses help and let them go check on him. My son has gotten suicidal a couple of times. One time when I was cleaning out hiss room I found a note that he had written years before where he had been suicidal. I did not know about it at the time but it was very upsetting to find. When I saw my son after finding it I asked him what he would do if he felt like that again he said he would go to the hospital.... and i said good, and if you ever feel like that call me and I will take you. A few months later after a break up he called me outside an emergency room and said he knew he needed to go. I went and picked him up and instead of going there took him to the psychiatric hospital near by. There was another instance after a break up (same darned girl) where he called me and I took him. So in a calm moment I think it is worth a conversation saying if you really feel suicidal I will always be willing to take you to the hospital... which if he is really suicidal is where he needs to be.</p><p></p><p>So next time he threatens suicide tell him if you are really suicidal then you need to go to the hospital and I am willing to take you. If he refuses call the police and tell them. Definitely do not let the threat work to get you to do whatever it is he wants you to do. </p><p></p><p>I will also say that when my son was suicidal he was not saying it to get me to do something.... he has done plenty of manipulation but not those times.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="toughlovin, post: 668122, member: 15801"] On the suicidal thing.... if he is threatening suicide then tell him you will help him get help. Definitely call the police if he refuses help and let them go check on him. My son has gotten suicidal a couple of times. One time when I was cleaning out hiss room I found a note that he had written years before where he had been suicidal. I did not know about it at the time but it was very upsetting to find. When I saw my son after finding it I asked him what he would do if he felt like that again he said he would go to the hospital.... and i said good, and if you ever feel like that call me and I will take you. A few months later after a break up he called me outside an emergency room and said he knew he needed to go. I went and picked him up and instead of going there took him to the psychiatric hospital near by. There was another instance after a break up (same darned girl) where he called me and I took him. So in a calm moment I think it is worth a conversation saying if you really feel suicidal I will always be willing to take you to the hospital... which if he is really suicidal is where he needs to be. So next time he threatens suicide tell him if you are really suicidal then you need to go to the hospital and I am willing to take you. If he refuses call the police and tell them. Definitely do not let the threat work to get you to do whatever it is he wants you to do. I will also say that when my son was suicidal he was not saying it to get me to do something.... he has done plenty of manipulation but not those times. [/QUOTE]
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