Helping Someone In Crisis

As I have been pulling this website together, I knew it wasn't going to be complete until I had figured out how to tell people to be with a friend or relative who was in crisis. So far I haven't quite been able to get the words to come together just right to express what it is that people on my side of things do go through.

In recent months, I've had friends say that they truly cannot understand because they have never been there. This means that the empathy aspect is direly missing at a time when it is so incredibly crucial.

Guess I should have done just as one PAIMI member had once talked about.. Spoken straight from the heart.. If I had done so, I would have expressed EXACTLY what Befrienders International shared in their very easy~read tips for helping a suicidal friend or relative..

I guess the simplest way I can put it is to just be there, be a friend, and please, please, please don't ever judge.. No one can be judging that person any more or any harder than they will be judging themselves at that moment.

..Help In Times Of Crisis And Distress ··»

It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet..

·» Mark Twain «·