User blog comment:G4T0R4D3xEN3RGY/I Am Screaming Internally/@comment-5614678-20151122203815

Oh NO, NO, NO. What Shawn just told you is completely and utterly wrong in 100% of the way. When people talk about killing themselves, most of the time they aren't doing it for attention - they're doing it because they want to kill themselves.

I cannot stress this enough - I've known people who've killed themselves and I've known people who have self-harmed. You HAVE to treat it 100% seriously like they're about to do it always, ALWAYS. If a friend tells you they want to kill themselves you have to call the police.

If they're just doing it for attention, they won't afterwards. Trust me.

'''Contact the authorities and tell them your friend is threatening to kill themselves. You could save their life.'''