I need help!

[BJ Laster]

I need the suicide hotline, help, whatever!



My cowboys just lost by one point to arizona (sorry josh)....



my week just got much, much worse!!!! (oh btw-today was good, got report cards, that made me happy-never thought i would say that! and golf was decent!!!)



BJ

 

[Staci Matheis]

Just a thought to pass on..... I did volunteer work on the suicide hot line here in St. Louis for a year and a half back in the mid-80's. It was an experience I will never forget. It openned my eyes to another side of life and reality. I highly recommend the experience to those who might consider such a thing.....

 

[JIM SHINN]

BJ, I work in a prison and we used to give our suicide inmates a paper gown and paper sheets so they couldn't hang their selves. Now we give them these very tear resistant gown. Their bed is a concrete flat bed against the wall. If you need help in this manner, I'm sure any D.O.C. can help out in the same way.

 

[Larry Harp]

Several years ago I was in the emergency room for some minor thing. The TV in the room I was in was tuned to one of those God awful daytime poor white trash shout shows and I couldn't find the remote control. I told the nurse when she finally came back in that I was going to commit sucicide if I had to watch one more minute of that TV show.



She replied, " Don't even joke about sucicide in a hospital that has a psych ward".



I got the message loud and clear.



Harpo

 

[Staci Matheis]

Harpo -



I've been to psych wards to visit an "acquaintance" who I had to take there twice..... Unless you've seen it for yourself, you can't imagine what all runs through your mind when you see someone cutting into their own arm with a razor blade..... I had to watch the nurses strap her to the gurney and sedate her..... I'm sitting here trying to come up with the correct words to describe what I sensed and felt - they simply won't come. "Absolute Terror" and "Emptiness" and "Emotionally Drained" are about all that I can come up with.....



me

 

[Ken Neeley]

No offense, but the words "whacko", "nutcase", and "friggin' idiot" come to mind also.

 

[Staci Matheis]

yeah..... those, too.....

 

[Michael Snow]

Jim S, here's an idea for the justice system. LET THEM DO IT. I think all death row cells should come with a noose supplied. I think if I were there, I'd rather just get it over with and be done with it... states are too slow.



Oh, and NEVER, I mean NEVER, tell the booking guard anything besides "no" when she asks if you have thoughts of hurting anyone or yourself. A political rant will only get your shoelaces and belt taken away. Do you know how hard it is to walk around in flopping shoes with your pants falling down?

 

[Greg J.]

"Do you know how hard it is to walk around in flopping shoes with your pants falling down?"



Lol, kids at our school attempt it all the time. I always ask them why their shoes have laces in them if they're not going to tie them. Plus I keep a spool of string in my classroom, and provide them a "belt" if they don't have one to keep their pants up.