We really have no other choice.

LMAO well that didn't take long.

And today on One Life to Live...

(no pun intended)

seriously

yep.

So what's the deal? Has the thread starter posted anything since OP?

I farted.

Nope, BUT he was on here looking at the thread yesterday. :shrug:

The guy should have the decency to stop back and give an update.

maybe the authorities are scraping his rotting carcass off a streetcorner? or he was just a Dick looking to get a rise or test the Human Spirit since it's Christmastime.

i'm guessing it's the latter.

I work in the human services field. I considered writing some long blurb about my thoughts about the ordeal, but ultimately refrained from doing so. I wouldn't know where to start and could go on and on forever once I did considering my personal experience(s) with people who have decided to commit suicide. And not to sound insensitive or anything, but this thread makes me feel like I am at work. All in all though, considering the OP's interpersonal disclosure is legit and not posted with intentions of dinking with us, I hope you utilize this thread as a resource to getting better.... some very good, valuable input on here. I hope you are able to pinpoint the problem(s) and improve your situation.

Least you could do since we saved your life is to vote for lewdog in the King of n00bs poll, brianfo.

If it is the latter he should come back and admit it. Especially when Phobia went out of his way to help him.

I have no problem with a guy using the forum to ask for help. If that was the case he could at least drop in and let us know how he's doing. Hell I'm not ashamed to say I've asked for guidance here before.

LMAO

FWIW:

I've had two social networking suicide experiences recently.

#1) A guy I was good friends with in college in my druggie days. He was disturbed back then. Had been molested and other shit in his youth, and he would talk about it all the time when we were getting ****ed up. He was living in my town and looking more and more like a crazy street person in the last few years. On Facebook, though, he was all "Life is good, sitting in a hammock, drinking beer, chilling." He was always doing not shit, not working, and acting like he had the good life. Then he goes missing for a month. His corpse is recovered, hanged himself, in some isolated woods in the town. The irony here is that he always acted like he was living the life online, but he was actually depressed and sad as hell in real life.

#2) This dipshit that I've somehow friended on Facebook who, judging by our mutual friends, I went to high school with. I don't remember him AT ALL. He's entertaining, though, because he's a big Occupy Wall Street dude, and is always ranting about how he'll be in Town X, holding up a sign, come see him. Similar to case #1, he was always acting all jazzed on life and super into the OWS movement and all the good he was doing for our nation because of his involvement. Then things went south and he started live facebooking his suicide. Basically updating shit like, "The doctors are trying to pump my stomach now, why can't they just let me die?" and other crap. I, somehow, got involved and told him he was a cowardly piece of shit to kill himself and leave his children with the burden of a suicidal father. He's since "recovered" deleted all those facebook posts and is back to his chipper OWS ways.

The internet is ****ed up.

****ed up indeed. A mask, so that some don't have to be themselves, so that people can get a respite from their everyday lives that seem to give them no joy. While I've got not grounds to make the judgement, I think that the ability to create this altered sense of self is rather unhealthy... Maybe I'm way off base. I don't know...