My son has always struggled with his mental health since he was 11 and has been to counselling when he was young and hated it. He has had suicidal thoughts throughout his life but never planned to go further than that. He is now living in the city (we live on a farm) but talks to me all the time about his problems. He recently again said “I want to kill myself” but no matter how I try to approach it (supportively, just listening, offering help) he either gets angry or doesn’t want to seek help. I am so worried that he will do something and I just don’t know how to support him without getting him help (which he refuses to have) I know if he could just find some friends or a partner he would feel like he belonged but he is shy and struggles to meet people. I have encouraged him to find other musos to make a band or go and join something but as I said he struggles. It just breaks my heart to know that they thoughts he have never leave him and he always feels alone. How do I help him when he doesn’t want to be helped. I don’t want to just watch something tragic to happen. I work in the mental health area and know all there is on offer but I just don’t know how to get through to him. It upsets me so much that he can’t overcome these feelings when he has so much to offer the world and appears to everyone else to be coping just fine. He confides everything to me but I just feel like I am breaking not being able to help him.
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