Mental Health: What should you do if someone says 'I want to commit suicide'?

 

If someone near to you tells that he is anxious about his mental health and desires to take his own life, you could be in big worry. At this point you contemplate about what to do next.

 

The question is mingling these days, in part because of a Channel Four documentary about the suicide of TV host Caroline Flack last year.

Given the rank of this topic, we spoke to Alex Dodd, a skilled with the mental health charity Samaritans, and requested what to do if somebody told you he was mentally ill.

Pay attention to what they say:

'You can't resolve the difficulties of such people and you don't know what's going on in their minds but if somebody says you that they have views like suicide, continuously pay full attention to it Should be given.

"It's very significant for such people that we deliver them with an setting where they are fortified to speak amenably and feel that you really want to help them," says Alex Dodd.

 

"The solidest part is receiving in touch with them so they can express you how they feel."

 

"It's usual for you to comprehend this person's thoughts rendering to your own mind, but it's significant for us not to do that and execute our thoughts on the other person's words," Albex said.

Keep calm and don't say bad things:

"It's one of the toughest things to do," says Alex, particularly when it arises to your own family.

 

"People just want to conversation to you and they can't contemplate of anything more. The best thing to do is to stay peaceful. "

The point is to give such people a situation in which they can conversation and not inquire them anything that will make them sense bad.

 

"What will the respite of the family think? How would they sense if you left this world?" Asking such queries will make such people sense that you are arbitrating them.

 

"They will close their mouths and not conversation to you again."

Ask light questions:

The initial thing Alex does is thank the callers and say them she's here to help. Her deductions in words what the caller is feeling and then assures them to say more.

 

"A good method to talk to someone is to not request them hard queries; for example, can you say me why you sense that way?" What is it that has led you to this assumption? "

 

She says there is nobody mistaken with requesting if these people distinguish that there are administrations to help them and if they have ever established help from an association.

"So you try to get to the lowest of it by asking queries here and there and finding out why that person contemplates he doesn't want to live any longer."

 

But don't ask queries all the time.

 

"Truly, your job is to give this person a coincidental to speak, to give them quiet and to let them out."

Help by holding hands if needed:

Our usual response may be that we need to embrace this person but the actual thing is to make them sense calm.

 

"Some people don't like to be embraced; they just want you to break away from them."

But if you're near to the person and you identify it's good to embrace him, don't be scared to grasp his hand. "

 

According to Alex, human relations are a great thing because they act as a bond and let other people see that somebody is with them.