Mental Health What pills?

[Wakkibanana]

A friend of mine is suicidal. I'm wondering what medicines I should try to take away from her so she doesn't overdose. She takes perscription Zoloft and Abilify, and has a bottle of Cymbalta.

 

[Moreaux]

If your friend is in the mindset of self harm, to the degree that you feel compelled to take her pills, you need to contact the authorities. She needs professional intervention. You are not a trained professional, and if you try to resolve this issue yourself you can potentially do more harm than good. If at all possible, try to get your friend to see a doctor, preferably her psychiatrist as those medications you mentioned are antidepressants so I'm thinking she has a shrink. It's possible the medications are making her feel this way, if she has either added new medication, changed the dose, or changed medications recently. I do appreciate your intentions, but the best thing for her is to see a professional. I hope she starts feeling better!

 

[Jabberwocky]

I hope all is well but I agree with the above post. Get her help. If someone wants to end their life they will find a way. I lost my husband this way and I wish I would have called the authorities. Not to sound harsh but please contact some professional

 

[LysergicMinds]

If your friend is in the mindset of self harm, to the degree that you feel compelled to take her pills, you need to contact the authorities. She needs professional intervention. You are not a trained professional, and if you try to resolve this issue yourself you can potentially do more harm than good. If at all possible, try to get your friend to see a doctor, preferably her psychiatrist as those medications you mentioned are antidepressants so I'm thinking she has a shrink. It's possible the medications are making her feel this way, if she has either added new medication, changed the dose, or changed medications recently. I do appreciate your intentions, but the best thing for her is to see a professional. I hope she starts feeling better!

I agree. If she is in the mindset of wanting to hurt herself she will always find a way. I know from personal experience and what you don't want to do is act/say (like) you understand. Talk to her and listen. Don't make her feel like she did anything wrong, especially, and try to find the main cause of the depression. Could it possible be her home environment? Sometimes even if everything is fine at home, people can continue to be depressed if, their grades are bad, they feel like nobody understands, and many other reasons. I definitely think listening to her would be a good start but if it is the point where she is truly suicidal, try getting her to a doctor. The best thing to do would be to get her professional help if she continues to harm herself (in any form).

 

[paranoid android]

Try and get your friend some professional help ASAP. Hiding the pills will only solve the problem for a very short time if they are actually serious about killing themselves. Try and get them to see a psychiatrist, a GP or anyone that can offer them some help ASAP. If it's a emergency try and get them to go to the ER. Anything is better then your friend killing themselves as everything else is fixable but it's sort of hard to undue death. Also just talking to someone can make a world of difference. There have been more then a few times where if not for a few very good friends being there for me i may very well have killed myself. So that's where you yourself can directly help. Sometimes just being reminded that they have people that care about them can make all the difference because when your miserable like that your brain can easily trick you into believing noone gives a fuck about you.