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Not an intimate thing, but I don't know where this would fall under... so..
Okay, long story short:
I got to know a guy two years ago at a university club, a month after I met him-- he started going suicidal on me. Not a problem, I have seen a lot of suicidal people in my life. The problem is that I wasn't used to cyclic behaviours since he was doing this like two or three times a week. This lasted from the fall until spring.
Things calmed down once he moved to a different city half a year later, then it started re-occurring two months later. Not a problem. I just held him in contempt, then eventually ignored him during the summer months. He re-established contact when he found a new girlfriend. Things seem stable over the fall and winter, until the spring.
He admitted to having hallucination problems a few months ago. It used to be auditory for a few years, then it has progressed to smell a few weeks ago. So I dropped him like a hot potato since I was undergoing therapy and didn't need the stress of that kind of friendship, he understood this.
He re-established contact after he found out I switched e-mail address and indicated suicidal intentions over MSN last night. Someone I knew said that I should just call 911 and inform the police about his whereabouts: name, ISP and city and they should take care of the rest:
While I was holding him on ignore, I started getting a bunch of text messages calling me rude names, and got my Facebook spammed. So I just sent a notice to the Facebook administration and my cellular provider that the person was indicating suicidal intentions and as a result is trying to get my attention.
Am I wrong for calling the police, plus informing Facebook and my cellphone provider about this? I never really had to deal with this before, and I didn't know that one can actually do this.
I am kinda ticked off because if I had known this five years ago, I would had saved myself a lot of troubles with * counts fingers * three or four people. I am really tired of having to deal with this stuff non-stop for so many years from different people who have repetitive behaviours. So, is it wrong? For some reason, I know that there is a cultural stigma against doing this kind of thing, since it is a big "no-no" in my family and among my friends, yet it feels like the right thing to do?
Okay, long story short:
I got to know a guy two years ago at a university club, a month after I met him-- he started going suicidal on me. Not a problem, I have seen a lot of suicidal people in my life. The problem is that I wasn't used to cyclic behaviours since he was doing this like two or three times a week. This lasted from the fall until spring.
Things calmed down once he moved to a different city half a year later, then it started re-occurring two months later. Not a problem. I just held him in contempt, then eventually ignored him during the summer months. He re-established contact when he found a new girlfriend. Things seem stable over the fall and winter, until the spring.
He admitted to having hallucination problems a few months ago. It used to be auditory for a few years, then it has progressed to smell a few weeks ago. So I dropped him like a hot potato since I was undergoing therapy and didn't need the stress of that kind of friendship, he understood this.
He re-established contact after he found out I switched e-mail address and indicated suicidal intentions over MSN last night. Someone I knew said that I should just call 911 and inform the police about his whereabouts: name, ISP and city and they should take care of the rest:
DJ said:
While I was holding him on ignore, I started getting a bunch of text messages calling me rude names, and got my Facebook spammed. So I just sent a notice to the Facebook administration and my cellular provider that the person was indicating suicidal intentions and as a result is trying to get my attention.
Am I wrong for calling the police, plus informing Facebook and my cellphone provider about this? I never really had to deal with this before, and I didn't know that one can actually do this.
I am kinda ticked off because if I had known this five years ago, I would had saved myself a lot of troubles with * counts fingers * three or four people. I am really tired of having to deal with this stuff non-stop for so many years from different people who have repetitive behaviours. So, is it wrong? For some reason, I know that there is a cultural stigma against doing this kind of thing, since it is a big "no-no" in my family and among my friends, yet it feels like the right thing to do?
Part of the problem is that a lot of time I don't know about these things, and kind of rely on other people to tell me how these procedures work so a lot of time these kinds of thing don't really pop up in my head until it's too late.
