My sister keeps talking about commiting suicide.?

Question

A lot of family problems. I have 10 years her junior, she is unmarried, has a weight problem and parents give her grief over this. I myself have been in therapy and on medication to combat anxiety problems, but I am clear enough mentally to know she needs help. I have asked her to try counselling numerous times. This morning she woke me up, she was upset over something mom said. Says she will rent a hotel room and shoot herself in the head, says she will go and jump off a bridge. I know and feel her misery, but I feel helpless. I told her if she goes out today to try and buy a gun I will call the cops and make sure she cant get one at any gun shop (we are in TX btw, I cant go in the gunshop I am 20). I told her that I will get her committed for her own safety. I have felt like her so many times but I put my faith in God to keep me going. She is starting to feel like God betrayed her and that is why she is not looking to God for help. I am scared. I dont want her to die.

Answer 1

DO NOT REPEAT DO NOT ignore this. Please call the local suicide prevention hotline, if you don't have one google the phone number for one in your state preferably near your community. They will get you in touch with all available resources to assist her.

Answer 2

The entire family needs to be counseled. I assume that your family has strong religious beliefs. Often families that are very strong in their faith are resistant to getting psychiatric help and this can be a huge problem. If your family has clergy that they are close to I would go to him/her privately and explain the situation and see if they would be willing to come to the house and have a family meeting. See if he will be willing to speak to your parents or your sister. Take him to her house if she will not come to the meeting. I would also see how the clergy feels about the psychiatric community. Your sister has a medical problem that needs to be treated by the medical profession. Prayer and faith will help keep you strong and help lead the way to know what to do when the time is right and to be supportive to your sister but she needs medication and therapy. Also she is a grown woman and sounds to me like her relationship with your parents may be a little toxic. Do they know what is going on? How serious it is? The more they bug her about her weight the more depressed she becomes so the more she eats. It is a vicious cycle. There is help out there. If your sister is totally resistant to any kind of help and talks about suicide while she is lucid and not drinking then some states will allow you to have her picked up and evaluated at the local hospital. That may be a last option. If she does not get help and she continues to live the way she is then all you can do is love her and let her know that you are there for her but you can't force her. Good luck and I am praying for you and yours. You may email me if you need to talk or even if she needs to. I am BiPolar II and also suffer from depression and anxiety so I have been there.

Answer 3

First things first! Skip school! (if you're going.)

Spend the day together doing the cool things that she likes to do.

During a quiet time, take a moment to tell her how much you value her love and presence in your life.

Tell her what she has done for you... make it up if you have to. But she needs to feel needed and important in someone's life.

Be an important anchor in her life. Let her know that she means enough to you that you will devert your everyday life to be attentive to her when she needs a shoulder. That's what sisters do.

Then ask her if she will visit a doctor... be by her side every step of the way. She needs you because you have already taken the first step in saving her life. Now build upon this. be creative and bring light into her life. the human love must be felt before the spiritual love.

Get professional help for you, her and your family. One way or another. You've already taken the first step.

Answer 4

You are in a very stressful position. It is difficult to help someone in your own family with a problem like this because it is hard to be objective when you are so close to the situation. If you think she is going to go through with her threat call a hotline. If they think she is a danger to herself, they can pick her up and take her to a mental health facility for help. People who threaten suicide all the time, usually go through with it soon or later. Also, you could call the hotline and get some advice on how to handle this situation. Good Luck

Answer 5

This is serious. People often times say they're going to commit suicide as a way to get attention. But something still needs to be done. You should see if she would commit to going a treatment center. Most places however, she has to sign to stay there. I don't know about texas, but when my mom tried to commit suicide in front of me, i called the cops and they hualed her off to a treatment center. They made her stay there for 3 weeks. It really helped her. She has her head on straight, you should try. Becuase if she does it, you will feel really bad like you didn't try to help her.

Answer 6

My best friend was going through the same thing. When someone is in so much pain they feel like death is the only was to get rid of the pain. My friend would not talk to a soul. She told me she was going to leave my house and kill herself. I tried to talk her out of it, but at this point the real her was not there. The only thing i could do was call the police. They came and took her to the psych ward at a hospital. she was very mad at me at first, but after treatment she was doing better and is now happy again. Most suicidal people do not want to die just to die, but to take away the pain. you need to call someone and get her help NOW. Good luck!

Answer 7

Tell her doctor; you may even want to call 911 if you strongly believe she will act on her impulses. Some people talk about suicide and don't ever actually do it, but you never can tell. It's better to be on the safe side and get help for her ASAP. She could be admitted to a hospital for observation; that might be a good idea under the circumstances.

Answer 8

If she is saying she wants to hurt herself that's a bad sign. Maybe you could talk to your parents and perhaps her friends, and try and work as a team together to give her some support and help her through, rather than feel your on your own. Perhaps someone can stay over at her place to keep an eye on her, and try and get her some professional help to get through this tough time. Good Luck.

Answer 9

I am so sorry. I had the same problem with my sister a few weeks ago. Ok, you can do this. Go to my questions, and there will be a question About my sister trying to commit suicide. Read the answers people gave me and advice. They ARE ALL extremely good advice and it helped me. Please, I hope everything works out. Just remember I had the same thing and now she doesn't think about it anymore..♥

Hope I was a help!

Answer 10

She definitely needs counseling. Call your mental health hotline and see what they recommend.

It sounds to me like your parents are really no help in this matter.

There is not a lot you can do actually except give her your support that she is a wonderful person. She feels like she is no good to anyone and she is very depressed. Just let her know you love her and she is a good person.

Answer 11

Suicides will continue to rise. The Bible declares that society is headed away from God. Godless society is bent on it’s own destruction. As these last days flow steadily toward those awful tribulation days, suicides will become more and more common. As the pressures of life mount, as society has rejected the only Anchor for their troubled souls suicides will become as common as accidents. The climax will be reached in the tribulation period where it is recorded (Rev. 9:6) that society will seek death and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. Evidently the only thing that keeps the mass of society from committing suicide in the tribulation is the sovereign, preventative power of God.