Don't Threaten Suicide Please!

 Last night after Without a Moral Compass moaned about taking a four day internet break she posted this:


Vaguely hinting around about being suicidal. I hoped she was just being her manipulative self, but I've been seriously worried by the Tsunami that is Suenami going around. She's started to act more like her slim hold on sanity is slipping.

People stepped up to call law enforcement to ask for a well check after the suicide threat and we get this:

She makes a vague threat of suicide, then get upset when people take it seriously and want to make sure she hasn't carried through on the threat.

Apparently this is all a game to her.

But here's the deal. In this difficult time dealing with Covid, not seeing friends and family and all the other struggles for money, to keep a roof over ones head it's not something that could or should be treated as an idle threat.

Just in the last few months I have had several friends here in my small Costa Rican community kill themselves. I've gotten word of stateside friends ending it. This just such a miserable and depressing time many are finding it hard to cope.

Here's the thing, in light of the what ifs, and the rise is suicides we have to take every single idealization of suicide seriously, every uttered threat, every hint of it. It's just too important to ignore the cries of anyone right now, even silly people you think might be disrespecting others who've attempted it. You just never know who is serious and who is not until it places out in the most tragic of ways.

Most states will, and should, do a 72 hour psych evaluation hold. Please don't be afraid to get those you know help when they start stating that they are thinking of suicide. It should always be taken seriously.


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