Good idea. A caller to Tim Conway’s show Friday night (which I listened to yesterday on the podcast) had the same thought. Find something admirable about the person and compliment on it. Especially something they said or did. Support them.
The only thing that makes me suicidal (get the feeling that I should be gotten rid of) if when I find myself believing I am a hindrance in the world. That the world would actually be improved by my leaving. And this feeling is felt by a lot of people EXCEPT the few whom the world would be better without. If you get this feeling, and lots of do sometimes, you aren’t one of those.
And the last time I felt like this, I told no one. I didn’t even want to burden my best friends with this feeling. I felt sorry for them because they are busy and they’d feel they’d have to take time from their lives to help me and I felt it would be a waste of their precious time. That is what suicidal people think. So best would be just to keep telling those you love, like, or feel might be down about life, some of the greatest things about them that they probably don’t realize. Slip these things into your conversation with everyone and help people feel worth something.
I guarantee (if drugs weren’t his issue) that night, Tony Bourdain had friends he could have called who would have helped him, who would have told him no woman is worth that pain, that anyone could see by their photos and comments that he was the needy one in that relationship, and stayed with him, but he didn’t want to BOTHER THEM. So he didn’t call.
And the last time I felt like this, I told no one. I didn’t even want to burden my best friends with this feeling. I felt sorry for them because they are busy and they’d feel they’d have to take time from their lives to help me and I felt it would be a waste of their precious time. That is what suicidal people think.
This.