Dealing with Someone who is thinking suicide

If someone tells you they want to hurt themselves or end life it means that that is where they are. That's what they see as the only best choice left. I think the best thing to do is just say you care and that you are there for them. I don't even think at that point that pointing out other options will work. In my depressed mind when someone says: You would be missed or It hurts others is what you can say. Depression tends to happen when you are "stuck in your own head."... It really is internal. It's extremely hard to get out of one's head. Movement does help. Trying to get that person to think outside of that internal conflict is hard. I justified others' grief by saying - In time they will get used to it. They'll forget and get on with it. I couldn't truly empathize with another's plight because what was within was so encompassing. I used to get to a point where I was nearly catatonic. I'd curl in a ball and sit in a spot in the corner of my room. It wasn't "for attention." There's rarely someone here to give it to me. It was literally being "stuck." But movement works. Before I get that stuck I start to tell myself - stand for ten minutes...now sit...now stand. Once when I was stuck I was in a program. I'm not sure how my helper got in my place - maybe I had given them a key when I was healthy. But suddenly I heard: Amy. You're "Stuck" I heard it. And I realized I was in a ball, on one knee, in my living room. Who knows how long I was that way? In 2007 I did that. I lost 40 lbs in a month because I never ate. And guess what - my cat died too because I forgot to feed her for that month. Stuck. But that worker somehow got me to stand. Then we walked. And then I started saying whatever it was that bothered me. At first it was little, insignificant, strange things like not liking my car. Seemed so superficial. But then I burst. I had learned on the news that a child had been beaten to death. Helplessness! Anger for someone who was defenseless. I shut down because I literally felt how insignificant I was in that moment and nothing I did would have/could have mattered. I couldn't save Dean is a HUGE thing that haunts me 25 years later. But it's OK. And I know more today what I need to do to prevent dark days like that. And I do know those who just "listen" and get me to move.
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