These are my personal opinions.

Always seek a professional when you're making choices about your mental health and well-being.

So imagine someone visits you at your home and they are in a panicky state and they are saying,

I don't know what to do.

I want to kill myself.

I hate myself.

Everything in this world sucks.

My life sucks.

Nothing is going right.

So there's really no reason for me to be here anymore.

What do you do with that?

Those are the kinds of messages I get sometimes.

It's not always.

But there are cries for help for sure.

And I know, and I'm not trying to laugh at that at all. It's just, it can really put the fire under your feet. Like, respond now. Help me now. And it can be challenging. So if somebody did that, or if somebody has done that to you, you know how challenging it is.

You don't want to say the wrong thing.

You want to say exactly what it would take to help them.

And what I've learned is that you don't want to say the same things that everyone else says to them.

If somebody says, I want to kill myself, the first thing I don't usually say is go get help.

Call a therapist.

I don't usually say that.

Not that it's not going to come out of my mouth eventually.

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