Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Reading Response #8

Silvia Soriano                                              Reading Response                                                        1/27/13

                           Suicide Prevention by Melinda Smith, M.A., Jeanne Segal, Ph.D., and Lawrence Robinson



                    After reading an article about suicide, I learned that, many of those people dont want to end their life,  they just want to stop the pain that they get caused.  Suicide is a very strong topic to talk about. Many people take their life's everyday. They stop connection with the outside world, they forget about everyone else. Sometimes people dont show their depression, they dont show any side of suicide thoughts. On the other hand sometimes they show all the signs, but we just are too stupid to notice them. It doesn't matter if someone says joking about how he tried suicide,  maybe he had a reason to bring it up. if he brought it up its because he has some connection to it. People that have tried to commit suicide are scared to go out and look for help. Why? Because people judge, people talk, word spreads.  Their scared of how they might be treated after telling the truth. Even if maybe you never tried or thought about it, bringing it up will worry lots of people, it could get the wrong attention of people, but it could get the right one also. 

         Their are ways of stopping suicide. Their is hope and saving for everyone. The best way for people to be helped, is first by admitting they have a problem.  By coming out of their shelter and telling someone. Letting them know what everything will be okay. That no one is here to judge, no one is here to tell them what they did is wrong. That they are in a safe environment, that they will get the help that need. People give forgivnesses. Their are second chances in life for a reason. You arent a freak or someone with needed needs. Talking to the person in a nice way, not judging way. Being a friend instead of a doctor. Being your self around that person, not being fake. Making sure the parents know too. Dont keep it a secret. Tell his parents, so that they can tell their doctors and get treated with medication, or therapy. 

    Make a back plan for any kind of emergency. Know What can set a person off. Be an protective friend. Make sure he/she knows you have their back. Making good changes in their daily routines. Make time for talking about how their day was, how was school? Do you wanna talk about anything? Is something bugging you. Just dont approach them like your demanding answers, and good ones. Make them feel loved every second of the day. It wont be easy for you and it wont be easier for them. But you have to try and help them be the person they use to be. Its never to late to change things, and make them go back to the way they were before. Dont hit them with cheesy lines and really happy lines. Cause nothing is ever 100% true. Nothing ever goes as its planned. If theirs disappointment on the way, they have to be prepared. 
                       Suicide one of the hardest topics to ever talk about. For a person having suicide thoughts and for a person knowing someone really close to them, knowing that in a ny second they could snap, and they could be gone. I cried reading this, even though it only had facts. It didnt have any warm touching stories. This a problem what is very well known in the U.S.A. If we see something we should say something. Every moment counts, if were talking about a life that is on the line.

                              http://www.helpguide.org/mental/suicide_prevention.htm                                               

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