How Do You Handle a Family Member Trying to Commit Suicide?
Question by *TiNK*: how do you handle a family member trying to commit suicide?
I don’t really want to give out too much information about it, but my mother tried to commit suicide by overdose friday night. she od’d on pills and went drunk driving (she has a history of both, but was sober for 4 years til 06) i just thought that this chapter of my life was done but i guess that it’s not. how do you cope with this?? & can you please pray for me and my family. this isn’t the first time we’ve gone through this
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Answer by sky64
May God bless this woman and her daughter, Heavenly Father we pray you uphold this family during this crisis.
Honey, you will remain in my prayers! Keep the faith and remember, depression and alcoholism are serious diseases. Love your Mom and know she is a victim just as you are.
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awehh hun i hope your ok. and i hope you can get help for your mom because though i’ve never been through that i have been through pain before and i can imagine that you feel awful about this. please hang in there and your mom too = )
Wow Sounds Like Problems! Have You Talked To Someone About Trying To Get Her Help! She Needs Help BAD! Is There Anyone You Can Go To About This? You Need To Find Someone You Trust And Go To Them About This And Or Find Someone That You Both Can Talk To! I Am Praying For You And Your Family! Good Luck Hope It Works Out!
when you know someone is trying to harm themselves, call 911 immediately.
your mom needs help. i’m no stranger to alcoholism hon. my father was an alcoholic and i am a recovering alcoholic. i lived what i saw and learned, unfortunately.
you might also check out the Alateen website on line. i’ve listed it below, just in case you are interested. it’s a support group for teens whose lives have been affected by an alcoholic.
sending prayers.
sure will pray for all of you.I hope everything works out in your family.
http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
Praying won’t solve the problem. She needs mental health assistance, even if it is forced upon her. Contact mental health services in the city or county where you live and find out what’s available. However, you should know that if someone really wants to commit suicide, they will eventually be successful. Just hope she doesn’t take anyone with her. This is a really sad situation as it causes so much pain for the family.
I don’t know how to handle a loved one doing that but I have personally tried to commit suicide. So I know it’s hard for you but you also need to be there for your mom she obviously is having some trouble in her life to try this so maybe she needs someone to talk to. I know when I was going through this I wish I had had someone there for me.
WOW I agree with you 100% well said well? said Dr Jeff Your understanding is amazing. Clearly youv’e been there. I love you and bless you I am an RN and without Suboxone I would have accidentally OD’d , which I had done before. I honor you and THANK YOU for your clarity and wisdom, born, I’m sure, from your own suffering!
I was using 16 mg a day and I decided to quit (no diminution ) I took my last? 16 mg the day before I went to rehab. I stayed 2 weeks and I just got out today, the first week was perfect, I was sleeping 16 hours a day, the second week I started to feel hyper emotional and I’m having trouble sleeping. I will laugh my ass off to tears but if something upsets me, I’ll go in to a rage. right now my legs are restless and I can’t sleep, I’ll try to hang in there for an other week and see how things go.
im an addict of pain pills. it started when i got toxic shock syndrome 6 years ago… the doctors kept me dosed up in dahladid, morphine and demeral. now im on percacet 30mg. i? take, snort 3 to 4 a day now. ive tried the detoxing method but im way beyond that now.the only help women get in my town is to sit in jail and detox. cant handle that. so now im at a lose for answers. is there anyway to get ahold of you? my e-mail is [email protected]. thank you.
Can you? smoke weed while weaning off suboxone?
Hi there I’m on 1 mg buprenorphine daily for maintainance and since I take it early in the morning i’m feeling really unpleasant in the evening, is? it not enough for my tolerance?
Hi there I’m on 1 mg buprenorphine daily for maintainance and since I take it early in the morning i’m feeling really? unpleasant in the evening, is it not enough for my tolerance?
Very, very good viedo Dr. God Bless you for you taking your time to talk to us & help us all. I think they should pay you for what you do here on youtube as you deserve it! Eveytime I see one of your videos? I get more encouraged to stay clean. I thought it was “fun” while taking pain pills, but it’s nothing as fun as being Clean : ) Clean is great! Life is Better without drugs. God Bless You!
A very complicated question– detoxing from methadone using buprenorphine. The bottom line is that there is no free lunch– lowering tolerance and withdrawal MUST go together, as the process is one and the same in the brain. Any use of bupe will only change the PATTERN of the misery over a period fo time– it will not reduce the overall level of misery. The same has been shown in studies with rapid detox– the? part that you ‘sleep through’ is a small fraction of the total experience of w/d.
I have a friend out here? in Seattle where I live who has been a serious heroin addict for many years, and he is currently on subs, and it really seems like it’s working for him pretty well, so hopefully he won’t relapse. I have my own problems with xanax addiction. Not abuse of it, but 8 years addicted. IMPOSSIBLE to get off, especially for someone like myself with limited means, no $ for rehab
I used to be anti-methadone but after seeing the destruction from opiate addiction for so many years, I endorse ANYTHING that keeps people alive. And I will never see either as handcuffs– it is OPIATE ADDICTION that is the handcuffs, and methadone or buprenorphine are ways to reduce the misery caused by the handcuffs. That is the mistake I see people make who hate bupe– their? ADDICTION is their permanent problem. But people need something to blame other then blaming their own mistakes.
I’m not endorsing methadone, I’m just saying that to be fair, when listening to your video here, it’s? almost like you were saying that their weren’t any other options until subs. People didn’t have to hit a bottom to take methadone. They call methadone liquid handcuffs, but I have a feeling that subs will handcuff people as well.
Oops– partially guilty! Actually, methadone treatment was legalized as an exception to the Harrison Act in 1972. Before then, using it to treat addiction was illegal– at least in the US, as it? was for all opiate agonists. DATA 2000 for buprenorphine (actually for any schedule III opiate) was the second exception to the Harrison Act. But you are correct– I shouldn’t have disregarded it… although it will always have ‘second class’ status because of the way it started i.e. inner cities.
Jeff, you say that before subs, their was? nothing really available, duh, what about methadone? It’s been around for like 70 years
hey man, please tell me? how things went. i felt the same way and im 5 days off after 1.4yrs on subox, before that methadone, before that heroin.
Hey i know that feeling. Opiates in general give you a false? happiness, throwing your chemical balances off. When you start the journey of detoxing, or quitting your happiness and other emotions will flip flop. Like being bipolar. The best thing you can do is talk to your dr, or psychiatrist. Tell them exactly what you feel. You came very far to throw in the towel. God bless, and good luck
I would? consider that your depression is unrelated to Suboxone– there are some people using it ‘off label’ for depression (not something I recommend, but you can read about it on my blog). If anything, it seems to elevate mood a bit. I would suggest staying on Suboxone so you don’t have to worry about relapse, and treat your addiction properly with an SSRI.
ive been using suboxone for 9 months and in the last 4 ive been so incredibly depressed i want to to be off suboxone very soon, but i’m very afraid ill make it 6 months and ruin everything. im currently in law school and know a relapse? would ruin everything