What people should know about family or loved one's that are suicidal

 Being suicidal...

    The main thing everyone should know that might help when someone you know is suicidal is this, IT IS NOT A CRY for attention,  it is merely asking for someone that cares to help them thru a rough time in their life.  From what I have learned going thru similar things in my life and even several family and friends going thru similar things, putting someone in a locked psych ward doesn't help, it's more important to show them you care, most of the time it is emotional support that they need more than anything.  Try being a good active listener or in other words empathize, validate, understand, and even try putting yourself in their shoes for a moment an make them feel truly understood.  Do not DISMISS them, this will only lead to resentment and cause more anger and emotional trauma.  Do not COMPARE what they are going thru to something you went thru, because they are never the exact same situations, you may perceive it as the same but I can tell you from experience it isn't.  I'm a very good active listener and have a somewhat strange ability to feel what someone else feels most of the time and can even sense negative or positive emotions due to subtle things my brain notices like body language, or the way someone says something.  I don't always notice it right away but my brain or body does pick up on these things.  It may be why people tend to talk to me because they know what they tell me ends with me and I always go into a conversation without judgement, and listen and offer the best advice  possible at the time with the information given.  I do enjoy helping other's it makes me happy but also at times I wonder where all the givers rather than the takers are because it really feels like the takers outnumber the giver's currently.  I still have hope that's one thing the taker's will never take from me even thou life has taught me honesty will get you nowhere, and me being gullible didn't help either but I'm getting wise on when to truly be honest and it's probably why i'm so guarded or less vulnerable than I used to be, I just try to get more of an idea of how a person is before ever being vulnerable.  It saddens me the world has become like this but from my own perspective that's exactly what it feels like.