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From: ansok@spp3.UUCP (Gary Ansok)
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Subject: How do you deal with discussion of suicide?
Message-ID: <278@spp3.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Feb-86 14:53:06 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 19 14:53:06 1986
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I have an acquaintance (someone I usually see once or twice a month)
who I was talking to the other night and came away rather disturbed.
He has been unemployed for several months after being laid off when
his company closed that office.  Apparently his unemployment payments
run out at the end of the month, and when I asked him what he might
be doing after that, he replied, "I don't think I'll be doing anything
after that."

His attitude is that if the world wants him, then it will provide him
with a job, and if he doesn't find a job, then the world doesn't want
him.  He has been jobhunting in his field (business programming)
without success, but refuses to consider changing careers.  He also
won't seek help ("I don't need to *talk to someone*, I need a job").
He sounds like he's logically thought this out but rationalized away
all possible solutions except one.  I went through that myself when
I had problems in school but I still don't know how to get through it.

What should I do?  What can I do?

		Gary Ansok
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