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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Tonight after I got done with my interviews I got a call from my dad. A family member who had been going through a rough time killed himself tonight. He got eaten by the depression monster, and the sad thing is that we couldn't find a way to help him because he basically had left town to find himself.
If someone close to you says that he needs to leave town for a while to get away from the situation that he's in, and to find himself . . . . don't let him or her do that.
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Captain, I'm really sorry for this loss, and just wanted to mention that the bolded may be you feeling a level of guilt, and you shouldn't. Suicide is a really complicated act that those left behind try to rationalize either convincing themselves that they could or couldn't have done more to help.
People can say they're suicidal for years on end and you could go crazy trying to save them every time, or they could say they need to get away once and kill themselves. It's not reasonable for anyone to feel like they should have had the handle on where they were at.