Red-Paint
December 12th, 2012, 11:15 AM
I have this best friend, who moved to Australia about 9 years ago. Last year we reunited on Facebook in which we started chatting again.
About three months ago he started getting depressed and was telling me he had been cutting and was considering killing himself.
I did the usual begging and asked him why he was so upset with himself and his life, he'd been getting bullied and had been having girl problems. Amongst other things that he didn't really tell me about, but all in all he seemed pretty upset.
A couple of days later, he messaged me saying he's thinking of killing himself soon. This happened quite a few times over the next couple of weeks, just him messaging out of the blue telling me he'd had a bad day and wanted to die. Once he said that he'd had an okay day because he'd found a group of people who wanted to kill themselves too and so they were all telling eachother about their horrible lives.
This went on until it didn't seem to me that he was depressed at all but was making up this story because I'd never find out since he lives so far away, just to get some attention. By this time I was angry at him for being annoying but I still tried to help just in case he was telling the truth. I don't know what to do, because he's making no sense and his 'story' seems staged. But what if he was telling the truth?
A week ago, he messaged me again. He thanked me, for helping him. Apparently he was just about to jump off a bridge when he remembered a story I had written about a girl who wished to commit suicide (for my English prelim) and stepped down of the railing. Although he didn't commit this time, he is still depressed and cuts himself but won't tell anyone but me.
I'm so confused, and part of me wants to punch him. What the heck do I do?
About three months ago he started getting depressed and was telling me he had been cutting and was considering killing himself.
I did the usual begging and asked him why he was so upset with himself and his life, he'd been getting bullied and had been having girl problems. Amongst other things that he didn't really tell me about, but all in all he seemed pretty upset.
A couple of days later, he messaged me saying he's thinking of killing himself soon. This happened quite a few times over the next couple of weeks, just him messaging out of the blue telling me he'd had a bad day and wanted to die. Once he said that he'd had an okay day because he'd found a group of people who wanted to kill themselves too and so they were all telling eachother about their horrible lives.
This went on until it didn't seem to me that he was depressed at all but was making up this story because I'd never find out since he lives so far away, just to get some attention. By this time I was angry at him for being annoying but I still tried to help just in case he was telling the truth. I don't know what to do, because he's making no sense and his 'story' seems staged. But what if he was telling the truth?
A week ago, he messaged me again. He thanked me, for helping him. Apparently he was just about to jump off a bridge when he remembered a story I had written about a girl who wished to commit suicide (for my English prelim) and stepped down of the railing. Although he didn't commit this time, he is still depressed and cuts himself but won't tell anyone but me.
I'm so confused, and part of me wants to punch him. What the heck do I do?