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PrettyPolar2

428d

How can I help my suicidal boyfriend if he won't accept help? My boyfriend and I got in a big fight and he became suicidal (as he has many times when I don't want to talk to him) and I was grocery shopping to cool off before he said anything. I come back and he is laying on the ground with his shirt over his head. I am praying that he will let me take him to get help. Has anyone experienced this?

    • Tofu14

      428d

      Meds obviously. I also hope that your boyfriend is in therapy. Some dbt exercises might help him build a bit more distress tolerance. As far as the immediate things in the moment focusing on the things that give me hope and purpose helps a ton. Like bucket list items, family, pets, goals, etc. have your boyfriend make a plan for when he is suicidal. What hotlines would he feel comfortable contacting? What things help him both things he can do himself and what others can do to help? What are some of his favorite comping strategies? Contact info for mental health professionals is good too. Write it all down so that way he doesn’t have to remember everything in the moment. There are a ton of resources online to help with this. I don’t know if this is relevant here, but if you feel bad for going to the store don’t. Blowing off steam and coming home when you don’t feel as angry is really healthy. You also aren’t responsible for your boyfriend feeling that way. Sure things probably went further than you wanted them to in the fight, but he is responsible for his own feelings. Obviously it’s good to still support him, which you do, but don’t feel like you caused this. You didn’t. He is also responsible for taking care of himself and contacting the resources he needs when he needs it and taking actions to help himself feel better. He also needs to be building skills and resilience during less intense moments.

      • PrettyPolar2

        428d

        @Tofu14 wow this really helped. The second part especially, I was yelling at him about how he never listens to me and how he doesn't make any money and can't budget and all these hurtful things. He is very stubborn and if he doesn't do something perfectly he hates his life. The hardest part for me is when he does this I help him kindly and he doesn't listen for days, weeks and then he becomes so depressed because he "can't figure it out" because he keeps doing the same thing over and over and making sure that he doesn't listen to what I say. I get so so angry and I have gotten a lot better with that but the thing that threw me out of the water was when after I was listening to him tell me about how his family was rich but they didn't trust him with money and it really sucked, he says "I don't fucking care how poor you were. . " I just said fuck you and slammed the door. Some back story, I have 8 siblings and lived in the middle of nowhere in poverty for most of my life, my house burned down when I was 8 and I live in an actual barn until I was 16. And he brings up how is parents would give him money every day to buy food and school supplies but the didn't let him buy anything else and kept track of him and his spending because they didn't trust him. I didn't compare us at all, obviously I had a way worse situation and it took years and years of shitty budgeting and hard times of not eating because I didn't have any money because I was unemployed as an adult to be where I am now. For me to sit and listen to him and then him to stab me in the face with his words is just beyond me. I block him on everything, he comes out of the room and explains himself and its worse, I get groceries and he tells me he wanted to die under the bed. I have dealt with this for the past two years, I became suicidal at one point and had to be more heavily medicated to continue staying alive. I have so much anger and I want to leave him but there are so many road blocks.

        • Tofu14

          427d

          @PrettyPolar2 I’m really glad that my response helped! What he said was really uncalled for and you have a right to be angry about that. It makes sense to cool down and go to the store. Definitely a productive thing. The additional information definitely makes me double down in my suggestion that he needs to be working on being well and taking meaningful actions to help himself feel better both for himself and for the health of the relationship. If this relationship isn’t healthy for you, leaving is definitely reasonable. If you feel like it, you could give him a last chance and ask him to come with you to couples therapy and have home to individual therapy. Sometimes a wake up call is what people need to start their journey for being well. But if you are done I think that makes sense after so long.

    • PrettyPolar2

      428d

      okay I will try that, I got back from work and we are watching a show together. We will go to the Dr. Tomorrow and I am happy be agreed to go. What keeps you away from being suicidal?

    • Haley.Castaneda

      428d

      If he’s being suicidal then try something that will he calm down. My fiancé knows that I’ll become suicidal over anything. Maybe let him vent to you.

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