How Do You Handle a Family Member Trying to Commit Suicide?

Question by *TiNK*: how do you handle a family member trying to commit suicide?
I don’t really want to give out too much information about it, but my mother tried to commit suicide by overdose friday night. she od’d on pills and went drunk driving (she has a history of both, but was sober for 4 years til 06) i just thought that this chapter of my life was done but i guess that it’s not. how do you cope with this?? & can you please pray for me and my family. this isn’t the first time we’ve gone through this

Best answer:

Answer by sky64
May God bless this woman and her daughter, Heavenly Father we pray you uphold this family during this crisis.

Honey, you will remain in my prayers! Keep the faith and remember, depression and alcoholism are serious diseases. Love your Mom and know she is a victim just as you are.

Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!

 


 

Katy and russell have no regrets over prenup and BBC spends £19,000 sending – Katy and russell have no regrets over prenup And bbc spends £19000 sending staff to The Priory Hi I’m Rachael downie and in a week that started with the dea…

 

Protecting the Efficacy of Antibiotics: This is What Real Leadership (and

Filed under: drug addiction treatment act of 2000

Louise Slaughter, Congress's lone microbiologist and a long-time leader on the issue of antibiotic resistance, reintroduced an updated version of the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act, or PAMTA as it is better known. This is an …
Read more on Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)

 

Special Report: The impossible job – God's CEO on Earth

Filed under: drug addiction treatment act of 2000

Benedict hands on a 2,000-year-old institution whose reputation is tarnished, whose teaching is challenged by an increasingly secular world and whose priests struggle to minister to its growing population. The man who leads the world's largest … He …
Read more on Reuters

 

Your Interview: Mike Pattinson, director of operations for the CRI

Filed under: drug addiction treatment act of 2000

Alice Johnson, Brighton: What percentage of drugs users in the city are non-functioning addicts and what percentage are people who simply use drugs on a regular but recreational basis? MP: Interesting question – it is important to remember that the …
Read more on The Argus