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That is true, but you have missed the point. . . Black is black, white is white. African americans are all black, therefore you can call them black.

Obviously if you think it might escalate, then phone an ambulance rather than the police.

And remember, you can't stop someone committing suicide using logic; the logic curcuits of the brain are literally fried at this point. Just stay with them, that's it. I remember feeling like a child again at that low point in my life; I just wanted my mum to hug me and make it all better.

That's good to hear, sincerely. But without knowing it, you have hit the nail on the head, or rather, the wrong end of the nail. A suicidal person has lost all hope for the future. There is nothing more they want to know about the world, there is nothing else they want to see, no more people they want to meet and they want all stories to end as soon as possible. I have to admit that I never thought a state was really possible, and that stories were exaggerated for dramatic effect. Then my brain changed, I could feel it going rotten. I wanted nothing but to lie down forever. Luckily that also meant had no motivation or energy to actually kill myself before I was hospitalised. That is why antidepressants can be so dangerous; if they increase your levels of motivation before you actually feel better you might actually do it. Hopefully this paragraph might help someone else understand how a suicidal person really thinks.