I hope it’s okay to speak for someone else. I’m trying to help a friend of mine. Lately, he’s been very depressed. He has told me that school is coming up and he isn’t very happy with that. He’s a very insecure guy.
Recently, he got his hair cut, but not the way he wanted it; he thinks he looks really bad with that hair cut. I could disagree. I understand it’s hard to comfort someone who is very insecure because I am also insecure about myself.
Again with school, he’s been home schooled for a while, taking online classes at home, but this year he’s going to public school. He’s going to a public school and he’s going to aviation school. He’s told me that it’s very depressing thinking about it all. I’ve told him not to over think because he’ll start thinking of bad things.
He’s been okay lately, but just the other day he told me that he was in the shower. In his shower is a cord for the shower head; the ones where you can take down and all. Well, he said that he put his head in the loop of the cord. Almost like hanging himself in the shower. But he was too tall. This frightened me so much. He’s my best friend and I wouldn’t know what to do without him. When he gets depressed, he doesn’t rationalize. Which means he could end up self-harming or ending his life.
Do you think there’s any way I can help? I talk to him all the time about not ending his life or self- harming. That seems to help every time, and I’m glad. I also suffer from depression, but I’ve been trying my hardest to think positive lately.
Is there anything I can tell him to not get him to be so sad or think negatively? I’ve said all that I could. Everything about hope to family and much more. I just don’t want to wake up one day, and he’s not there anymore.