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[MetalSlimeHunt]

Do you think he'll take it any harder for you to just stop talking to him one day than to explain your reasons for cutting him off?

If he really wants to die, you can't stop him. It's ultimately his own choice, ill-informed as it may be, as to live or die. Even if you were to decide to keep dealing with him to "keep him from killing himself", he still might kill himself.

[Vector]

My problem is that at this point my amount of caring is going down to zero, and it's making me deal with this situation rather ungracefully.  And possibly in a way that other people would consider amoral.  I don't have the emotional energy to deal with this, I told him that, and he seems to be under the impression that if he's just depressed enough that will change.  Or something.  I don't know.

I'm finding myself rather lacking in compassion at present.

[Vattic]

Do you think he'll take it any harder for you to just stop talking to him one day than to explain your reasons for cutting him off?

One of my mum's circle of friends is depressed and often suicidal. She is known for sending texts through the night and for long phone calls. My mum is the only person who was still willing to listen, but just recently she did similar to what you suggest: let her know why and simply cut her off for a couple of days. It seems to have helped the situation, broke the habit I suppose, and she's sought professional help.

[kaijyuu]

Abandoning him is probably the worst thing you could possibly do, but do make sure that whatever help you're providing is actually helping. Make sure he's getting professional help for one thing.

[Truean]

This is never a good scenario. You wanna be nice to the person, but the emotional cost to you is high sometimes. I actually have this problem too with a lot of people, wet shoulder syndrome, from letting them cry on it. I really wish there were some way to help these people in our throw away society

[Neonivek]

This is never a good scenario. You wanna be nice to the person, but the emotional cost to you is high sometimes. I actually have this problem too with a lot of people, wet shoulder syndrome, from letting them cry on it. I really wish there were some way to help these people in our throw away society

It is mostly the loss of the community that can somewhat be attributed to this. Studies show that abnormal behavior tends to go away more often in strong communities without medication then in weak ones that medicate.

Depression will likely never go away forever even with professional help. Even I still get depression bouts of a month in length.

[Reudh]

This is never a good scenario. You wanna be nice to the person, but the emotional cost to you is high sometimes. I actually have this problem too with a lot of people, wet shoulder syndrome, from letting them cry on it. I really wish there were some way to help these people in our throw away society

I know this, and I know this far too well.

[Dutchling]

Party at a club tonight. Not the kind of party I like at all, but I told a friend I'd go. I suck at saying no to friends, especially when they're so damn happy when I say yes Dx.

At least I can drink a lot and pretend to enjoy it. And my friends will of course be there so it's not all bad. But still, mehh :/.

[MonkeyHead]

Trampolining accident sends a colleage to hosptal today with 2 shattered vertebrae. Not good.

[GlyphGryph]

But dancing.

Wait, is it a dance club?

[MaximumZero]

Trampolining accident sends a colleage to hosptal today with 2 shattered vertebrae. Not good.

...damn.

I was going to complain about being in lots of pain today, but fuck, dude.

[Vector]

Look, I know I'm supposed to talk to the guy, but I feel like I'm... well, honestly, I feel like I keep on having my romanticism pressed out of me by blackmail.  From my ex's "I will punish you, and I hate you, because you broke up with me and dated someone else (after I told you to) and that was Immoral" to whatever the hell this is.

I honestly don't think this is his intent.  It feels like I'm wallpapering over what is actually going on with past experiences (I have had yet another someone threaten me with suicide as a way to extract the attentive behavior she desired).  But I'm kind of too worn out to do a good job of teasing through all this right now.

[SalmonGod]

I can relate from both sides.  I have been manipulated by suicide threats and emotionally vampired by a very desperate person who had nothing to lose.  I've also latched on to others who were nice enough to listen to my problems, and didn't realize that I had probably done so more than was proper until long after it was over.  I second the honesty approach, but with as much tact as you can muster.

I'm terrified right now of giving bad advice, but here is how I would imagine approaching it, given the limited information I have about the scenario.

Establish that you care, even if you have been depleted of the will to actually do so, because you don't want to invoke a 'nothing to lose' reaction from them.  Then tell them that, while you do care, you simply don't have the emotional energy that they have come to expect from you.  You think that they have established a level of dependence in this relationship that is unhealthy, and that it would be best for both of you if they sought a different form of help.

[Truean]

Some people have infinite wells of need. Other people are exhausted trying to fill that infinite well.

Person A:
"I feel terribly and need something to not make me feel terrible."

Person B:
"I have given them what I can, and it does not seem to be enough."

[kaijyuu]

Having been on both sides of that equation, Person A still has it worse. But yes, feeling like you can't fix it is a horrible feeling.

Friends are important for depression, but so is professional help. The job of a therapist is to be a shoulder to cry on, whereas friends do that as a more social obligation/out of pure concern thing. Most depressives need both, as friends (especially if it's just one friend) can't do everything.