Arvel Joffi

I found an old post of SE's where he posted his email address:

[email protected]

Anybody heard anything from him otherwise? I'm worried sick.

lunachick

I, too, hope he is getting well. We are unlikely to hear from him for a few days. If he did go to the ER, and I hope he did, they will keep him for approx 72 hours for assessment.

Please, please, please be well, SE.

dangin

Enough of the fucking suicides, and suicide attempts around here.

I want everyone to repeat after me.

"I'm going to commit life today"

Repeat as necessary.

Live, if only to piss off the fundies.

jesus christ you people drive me crazy, if I have to babysit everyone. . .mutter, mutter, mutter. . .

Secular Elation

I'm back, and let me say that, at the moment, it seems that I will be OK.

Yesterday, shortly after posting my original post in this thread, I returned to read what peole had replied with. When I looked, there were close to 10 posts, and all of them expressed the common concern of getting to an ER immediately.

So I did. I wanted to hurry, so I didn't even reply here that I was leaving. I immediately shut down the computer and drove to the local hosiptal.

I signed in to the urgent care center once I arrived. After sitting a couple of minutes, they took me into one of the rooms and asked me questions. One of the first things they asked was, "How did you get yourself into an overdose?" I told them the truth, of course. Once they discovered this, they put me on a bed and took several blood samples from my arm. While they were processing the tests, another doctor came in and asked me more questions (more personal questions, such as "Why did you try to kill yoursef?")

After an hour, a nurse came in and gave me an anti-tylenol liquid for me to drink. When she gave me this, she told me that the aspirin levels in my blood were down, but said that they were still waiting for full results, and she left me to drink the cup she had provided me with.

After a long time, a policeman came. He asked a few routine questions, and after OKing me from the doctors, he escorted me outside. I thought I would get to leave, but he made me wait with him outside because he said a couple of county psychiatrists were on their way. At this point I was freaking out, because it was then that I realized that there was no viable way for me to cover this up--to hide it from my family.

When the counselors came, the policeman left me with them in the parking lot. They asked me many questions, tried to pry into all the reasons why I tried to kill myself. After this chat, they finally presented me with two options: be sent to the local medical center for a three-day evaluation, or phone call a family member. I thought hard, and I went ahead and called my sister. I didn't want to call anyone. I just wanted to leave and go home, pretend none of this had ever happened. I couldn't.

I called my sister (she was at her house), and told her why I was at the hospital. The moment I told her, I heard her breaking down. It felt painful to say that to her, and I gave the phone to the counselors so they could say a couple of things. I sat back and buried my face into my hands.

Not long after, my sister and her husband arrived, but to my dismay, she had quickly stopped by my house to pick up my mother. They call came out and hurried over to me, bawling all over me. I felt so bad...I had never done something like that before. I had never been in that situation before, where a big mass of family members are losing it.

After a few minutes, the counselors released me to go home. My other sister, who lives out of town, was notified, and she came to town last night to visit. So did my step-father, who also lives out of town.

Today, I stayed home from school. I want to make sure I'll be perfectly all right before I return to school. My mother stayed home from work as well. I think she was a little devastated. I'm just happy that they didn't run up and slap me and condemn me and everything. They were were accomodating and supportive. You have to understand, I had never done something so low before, and thus I had no knowledge as to what their reaction
would be.

It seems like I'm going to have to suffer through counseling. There was a lot of discussion about that. I'm afraid as to what my future holds, now that I have a fresh record for insanity.

Let me just say this: thank you all for your help. I was disoriented and confused yesterday, and fortunately I had these boards to turn to. Once I had seen that everyone agreed that going to the ER was a definite must, I immediately did so. Thank you, thank you so much.

AquaVita

Thank YOU for doing the right thing!

Best of luck to you!

Demosthenes

I'm so glad to see that you're alright, at least for now You sure gave us all a scare. If you want to, there are others on the board that you can ask for advice and so on, please feel free to do so through PM or such. We infidels do want to support each other.

Mecha_Dude

now...
DON'T TRY IT AGAIN!!!
Glad you're alright.

Mad Kally

SE! What a relief..

penumbra

"It seems like I'm going to have to suffer through counseling. "

Be optimistic SE, you might actually enjoy it! Counseling isn't bad if you go in with at least an open mind and a positive attitude. Give it a fair trial before passing judgement.

And glad you're back and OK. We'll always be here for ya!!

Viti

I'm glad you took our advice and I am glad you're okay. You cannot just forget it ever happened and you should look forward to counseling to help you through this rough spot. For some reason you felt hopeless and made a decision meant to be permanent...you need to figure out how to deal with those feelings.

I read somewhere that suicide happens when the pain you are in outweighs your coping mechanisms...you got a whole bunch of people here happy to help you cope and outweigh the pain.

Be well, become happy, PM, email or MSN me anytime ([email protected] on MSN)