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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Numion" data-source="post: 2891485" data-attributes="member: 124">I know from personal experience that it is difficult to keep my mouth shut, and I'm not sure that that's even the best thing to do.I've seen two of my friends spiral downwards to the point of suicide attempts. It's a really depressing feeling when you want to help, offer sympathy, do anything basically, and then just notice that anything you do is not going to help.Only thing to do is tell people (and maybe even force them) to get help from those who can provide it. Mostly it means healthcare professionals. Luckily my friends both made it - one had to be institutionalized for a while, but now her life is great (she even graduated to be .. a doctor, of all things), and the other one stormed it on his own. He has a couple of scars to show for it, but now he too is doing fine. Maybe a bit too obsessed with his newfound financial success, but I let it slide because of his past <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>