Creator: Dr. Reeja Tharu
Keywords: Understanding the suicidal person, helping the suicidal person, psychiatric help, medical help, suicide prevention, guidelines to help the suicidal person, suicidal attempt, counselors

Written by Dr. Reeja Tharu, M.Phil.,Ph.D
Medically Reviewed by The Medindia Medical Review Team on Apr 19, 2013

Helping Suicidal Person

It is important for all of us to understand what we as family or friend can do to stop a person from committing suicide. Although the first step in such a condition can be getting medical or psychiatric help from professionals, in real life this may be a difficult object to achieve. Various agencies working on suicide prevention had offered the following guidelines to help someone who threatens to commit suicide:

Talk directly and matter-of-factly with the person about suicide
Allow the person to speak and listen to him without making any judgments.
Do not let your own feelings of shock or other opinions stop the person from sharing his thoughts with you.
Get involved with the person and show him that you are around anytime he needs you to hear him out.

Published on Jan 02, 2013
Last Updated on Apr 19, 2013

Comments

yachna_verma Wednesday, September 5, 2012

If a person is in very much pressure and tensed and there's no way he/she can get out of this mental torture, his/her parents are not willing to understand anyhow. A last option that is left is to end his/her life so that he can rest in peace, but if people committing suicide goes to hell.. Where can he rest in peace?????

4love Monday, November 28, 2011

Please I will like to appeal to everyone that no matter are tensed or pressured and no matter how bad and hopeless the situation is, we should not take our own lives. Suicidal spirit has a mission to destroy the souls of men and send them to an everlasting place of tormrnt known as hell fire. So please do not take your life, you can always ask Jesus for the forgiveness of your sins and ask him for help and he will turn things around and you will be glad and full of life again. God bless you. I love and Jesus loves you best.

sreelekha Wednesday, March 17, 2010

WHAT SHOULD ONE DO IF IN DEEP DESIRE TO DIE, BUT IS STILL WITH THOUGHTS OF PAIN THAT IT WILL CAUSE TO THE PARENTS DUE TO HIS DEATH?

guest Tuesday, May 4, 2010

you should tell them your feelings, your life is very precious

Thatsme Monday, January 21, 2013

PLEASE, DO NOT LOSE ONE MORE MINUTE, go talk to a true man of God NOW. Jesus will give you a reason to live. Jesus died for you already because He loves you. You don't have to die.

cap5920 Tuesday, February 23, 2010

My life is cool.

suebraids Thursday, December 18, 2008

I think I have a right to choose ,
When to me life becomes intolerable

guest Friday, August 21, 2009

You definately have, no one can deny that. It's your life and your choice...unfortunately it does ham the ones left behind you, but it's your life, and you live for no one else but your yourself...

guest Wednesday, June 30, 2010

The problem with suicide is that it doesn't accomplish what you want. You can kill your physical self and no longer feel pain, but not your consciousness...your soul survives....EMOTIONAL PAIN REMAINS. You see EVERYTHING and CANNOT do anything physically. It's just FRUSTRATING.

hmom3 Saturday, September 18, 2010

Hmmm... my husband recently took his life. He had struggled to overcome tremendous emotional pain for many years. I certainly do hope that what you say is incorrect. Though he left a mess here, I cannot be angry with him- he had an illness that at last won. I do hope that he can see everything and perhaps finally find joy in this life, if only as an observer. Such a waste. Such a waste.

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