Eh, it's worth mentioning. As someone who has had a suicide in the family AND who, as an angsty teenager in high school, from time to time thought "I just want to die" or "I might as well be dead" (and who knew other people who said the same), I know there's an obvious difference between "suicidal ideation" on the one hand and self-dramatization on the other. I knew at the time that I just meant "I'm tired of thinking about my [absolutely bog-standard] teenage problems," or that said problems seemed like they would never end.
This. From experience.
As a teen and as a young adult, I had to deal with friends who actually tried suicide because (grossly simplyfying here for brevity) of a passing exogenous cause (read: acute but temporary depresive episode from external causes like a love deception) who simply needed to be wacked over the head in a friendly way so they get over it, and I had to deal with friends who actually tried suicide for a serious endogenous depression (read: the kind of chemical imbalance-caused depression that is a SEVERE mental health problem) who needed months of professional therapy and LOTS of help to prevent recurrent crisis and attempts. (I also had friends who got a serious endogenous depression as result of an exogenous cause and tried suicide just once, yet required LOTS of therapy and help afterwards). I even had to deal with pre-teens who were just morons and thought the idea of suicide was romantic, not truly thinking about the consequences - I kid you not. Those needed a stern telling-off - which would have triggered a crisis on the other ones. I still can't fucking believe I managed to get them all not to kill themselves, given that I was NOT trained at the time. Let's just say that the first-hand knowledge of just how hairy those situations could be got me to get actual training later in my life - and I'm FUCKING GRATEFUL that said training never needed to be put to use anymore.
TL:DR; the behaviours of suididal persons can run a VERY wide gamut.
What works with one person may actually trigger the suicide of another.
Leave this stuff for profesionals.
But the story was very sweet, and would have actually worked on SOME cases. Just not ALL.
BTW, actually voting for a don't try this at home
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