Someone who is in pain ...namaste_2_uApril 2 2005, 09:14:33 UTC
You have reached out and extended yourself to this boy who wants to commit suicide, and that is such a big responsibility. But maybe the reason he doesn't talk to parents, friends, brothers, sisters, or pastors is that he may think that they are part of his problems and misery. It's often very easy to open up to a complete stranger that will listen, but not judge your every word, and you did that. This boy needs to find someone OUTSIDE his circle of family and friends, someone like a counselor or someone in a professional medical field to help him work this out. If he is a young man, raging hormones could be amplyfying his feelings right now and it's difficult to think rational when this happens. The most important thing he needs to know is that every day is a new day, and things do change, if we give them time. Sometimes we have to initiate those changes, and sometimes we have to be patient. (Not easy with raging hormones!) This young man is NOT alone, and doesn't have to go through this alone. He must continue to cry out
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Re: Someone who is in pain ...boundbyrealityApril 3 2005, 02:50:11 UTC
*nods*
Being where I am, I really dislike "blaming things" on youth: good things or bad. I've learned that age does not necessarily have anything to do with maturity, intelligence, the ability to love, the ability to hate, or just about anything in between.
However, sometimes I forget the "not necessarily" part of what I've learned, and this may be one of those cases where I've failed to consider that: yes- he is very young, and hormones probably are drugging up and expounding on these things he's feeling.
Alas: I'll keep talking to him. It seems like most of the time I speak with him, he's either in a perfectly normal mood, or ranting about how stupid humanity, and how very advanced and superior he is to the world around him, and how he wants them all to just... die.
Fun.
It's definitely indicative of Personal Fable, that's for sure.
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Being where I am, I really dislike "blaming things" on youth: good things or bad. I've learned that age does not necessarily have anything to do with maturity, intelligence, the ability to love, the ability to hate, or just about anything in between.
However, sometimes I forget the "not necessarily" part of what I've learned, and this may be one of those cases where I've failed to consider that: yes- he is very young, and hormones probably are drugging up and expounding on these things he's feeling.
Alas: I'll keep talking to him. It seems like most of the time I speak with him, he's either in a perfectly normal mood, or ranting about how stupid humanity, and how very advanced and superior he is to the world around him, and how he wants them all to just... die.
Fun.
It's definitely indicative of Personal Fable, that's for sure.
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