Fake suicide threats?

I admit, there was a time when I thought that anybody maxim they are going to kill themselves is something that should be taken seriously and those saying that "they do it for attention" used to piss me off. Well, in a minute I realize it's all in how they say it. I've have an experience recently with a person that kept threatening suicide on me several times. I took it seriously the first time, especially since they have attempts in the past. Then they did the same item again later on in the week. Well, it's true that they need psychological assistance for even having thoughts like this in the first place. I'm sure that if they didn't want to do it at adjectives, they wouldn't have said it. However, I think it's true that the person be never planning on actually going through with it, and knowing this, they told me anyway that they were 100% serious. Well, that pisses me past its sell-by date. I've been diagnosed with clinical depression. I too have thoughts of bloodbath myself. However, I've never threatened it to anyone saying "Yes, I'm going to kill myself tomorrow" or something like that. I do take back saying I wanted to die plenty of times, but that's something different. If I had in fact developed a plan, I wouldn't even tell anybody about it because at that point, I wouldn't want help. So, anyway...my point is that I do deduce that people should take seriously those that want to hurt themselves, but only when you can truly tell they're crying out for help. Not attention. What are your opinions on this?

Answers:

I agree with what your are saying.
Maybe they own tried to ask for help and have not been listen to.
Or they may have not got any-one really close to help them, and the solely way they can get help, is to natter about killing one self.
Depression is an Illness and needs to be taken seriously of late as some-one who talks about killing themselves. To this hours of daylight, Depression in some areas of "some" people is an excuse, it is not.
Attention is another way asking for oblige, even tho they threaten to kill themselves. There may be an under lying cause surrounded by why they are seeking attention. Which ever one is what, it should never ever be dismissed.

Suicide threats, are by definition, a cry for attention.

People who do want to commit suicide, usually do, they don't bother threatening to do it because that would cause somebody to try and stop them.

It's a bit manipulative, however the person who is threatening suicide generally have some underlying problem that is making them crave the sort of attention that they will get by making the threat.

i cant believe you lot if some-one says this you should try your best to try and help them profoundly of the time it is a cry for help there are shouting out please will some-one say they diligence and please help me i dont know what to do the reason i know this is because ive been down that road frequent times before please dont egnore them for there sakes ive been verbs from alcohol now for over 8years thank God im now better and not as down as i was a live alcoholic when some ones say they want to die they are crying out of themselfs please some one please help me

I think you should take every suicide threat seriously, and if they're only doing it for attention, afterwards that's their fault.

I would suggest you always take a suicidal threat seriously, until proven otherwise....i dont say aloud this for the person concerned (it will help them too if they really meant what they said) but i read out it for you!

If you fail to take a threat seriously, and the threat is carried out, it would be you who was disappeared feeling guilty (although it would not be your fault in any way)

Some are threats which are true, some are threats for attention, but near truth to them also, and some are just for attention.....the worst kind, are the ones which are said to manipulate those into doing something they didnt want to do.....an example is going to split up with a partner, and being scared to move out in the end due to a threat of suicide!

I hope this helps somewhat, you have some good answers already!

Good luck
Kit x

I believe that it is a HUGE mistake to think anyone is simply crying out for sustain. ALWAYS take anyone seriously if they are threatening to harm themselves. This is not just my belief, it's been proven by mental health professionals that the old hypothesis of "if someone talks about it, then they won't really do it" is pure myth. In reality, the more someone talks about it, the higher the odds that they will go through with the "threat".
Please take this personality seriously. Getting angry at them is absolutely the wrong thing to do. You say that you suffer from clinical depression too? Then you should know how the individual feels! Please get them some help...and give a hand for your own depression as well.
There are some great articles on-line about how to deal beside depression & suicidal people. Please read them:

http://www.dbsalliance.org

and call your local crisis hotline asap...for both of you!

I wish you the awfully best & remember that there are many other people out near who feel like you do & equally as many who are inclined to help. Source(s): Personal experiences & research

EVERY threat of suicide needs to be taken seriously. Here's the reality: the majority of society who commit suicide sent out warning signals and cries for the help and attention for at least 6 months previously they went through with it. "Cries for help" isn't limited to confiding contained by a friend, it may also be threats and acting out for attention so that it will lead to getting help. That was me at 14. I be suicidal (clinical depression, being abused, my mom died) and I was maniacal about it. I made an attempt when not a soul took me seriously and I lost hope of getting out of what I was in. Countless people own committed suicide because everyone else thought that the threats were just for unneeded attention. I've seen first-hand cases, including my own suicide attempt. I'm not maxim people don't do it manipulatively, but it's naive and incorrect to think that anyone who act out about their suicidal thoughts won't go through with it. If you strongly suspect someone is of late threatening their life to manipulate you, just give the name 911 and have the police send them to a mental hospital. It will become their own problem and not yours, and in the event that they be serious about the threats, they'll be getting treatment.

I have thought roughly commiting sucide many times. i never told anyone when i was thinking about it inflict i didnt want to hurt them. this person obviously is a drama thriver. they acttualy do only want the attention. the best course of doings is to ask the person why they want to do it. if they dont give you a reasonable answer they a moment ago want attention. so calm down and DO SOMETHING! :3:3

i think most of the time is it a cry for attention because if someone required to actually kill themselfs why would they tell someone who would try to have a chat them out of it, or call the police so they cant? i know i wanted to die with i took 300 pills and didnt speak about anybody

I knew someone who did this as well. Whenever they looked-for to keep their wife from leaving them they threatened to kill themselves.

Everyone unseen them. We all knew this individual well ample to know that killing themselves would not accomplish what they wanted. Which was self in complete control of their wife.

Suicide threats should be examined on a person to person argument. Most of us know the people in our lives. We've heard them, see then day to day. To truly determine if they threat is legitimate you should definitely consider who is saying what and use your judgement. Other than that there's not much you can do, none of us ever really know what goes on within another person's head.

I think it can be for attention sometimes.

I had a friend who did the same thing to me, MANY times! It be very frustrating and upsetting, I felt like they be just saying that for attention, he would call me up after individual totally fine, and say "I am going to kill myself, help me stop myself from doing it" and he'd acquire me all freaked out, especially since I lived far away and was only 16 at the time, he know I couldn't get there to help him even if I required to. I believed him the first few times, but then I just got to fancy used and abused! I would say trust your instincts, you know when someone is real, because you can feel it contained by the pit of your stomach, if they are faking you can usually spot that too...just try to trust your instincts and don't get too worked up over it....also if you surface like you want that person to get facilitate and to stop bothering you, tell them you are going to take them to someone who can help them, if they say aloud " no no no," then youu know they were faking, if they agree later yes they probably DO need the help! hang contained by there!

I have a very good friend threaten to kill himself and I took it VERY seriously. I call the appropriate people who in turn called the police. The police go to his house and determined that he was fine. About an hour after that he shot and killed himself.

I have an ex boyfriend who know that this had happened to me and I wanted to break up and he threatened to assassinate himself. He was trying to manipulate me. I did call the cops on him and took the threat seriously but I know in my heart that it was for attention and manipulation. It is so hard to update who is truthful and who is lying and it pissed me off that somebody would try and manipulate me like that. I guess you a short time ago never know though.

People who threaten suicide for attention ARE crying out for help. It's impossible to tell apart as people who lie about man critically ill, or being raped/molested it is a desperate cry for help they don't know the root of the problem so they be aware of as though they have to create a problem or show in order for empire to pay attention and tend to their needs. You do have Narcs who will do it time and time again and it can become draining and annoying but they're Narcs, it's what they do and they requirement help as well.
I knew 2 family who threatened it constantly from a young age, when people stopped listening and humanitarian that is when they went through with it.

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