"I slit my wrists 3 minutes ago,what should I do?"

[Guest MarvinisaLunatic]

Dear TeenHealthFX,

 

I slit my wrists about 3 mins ago and I am scared to tell my parents to take me to the hospitol HOW CAN I STOP ALL THIS BLEEDING?  

 

Signed: Slit My Wrists 3 minutes Ago

 

Dear Slit My Wrists 3 minutes Ago,  

 

You need to tell your parents immediately and have them call 911. While you are waiting for the ambulance to arrive apply direct pressure to the wound with a towel, white t-shirt or any fabric where the dye color will not seep into the wound. Keep your arms raised above your heart to slow the flow of blood.

 

At this point do not worry about your parent’s reaction. Any feelings they would have, would be insignificant, compared to the amount of anguish they would experience if anything happened to their child. You owe it to your parents and yourself to seek help and come to terms with the emotional difficulty that led to you harming yourself. No matter how bad you feel right now you have to understand that with help, things can and do get better over time. TeenHealthFX recognizes that you are probably frightened and scared but you have to reach out for help and you have to do it right now. Please do not hesitate.

 

TeenHealthFX is thankful that we are able to help people when they experience emotional crises. However, it is important to note that we are not a crisis hotline that is available 24 hours a day 7 days a week. In addition because of the anonymity of the website, we would not know who you are or where you live in order to be able to help you directly. If you are in crisis and need direct help it is essential that you report to your nearest hospital emergency room for help. If you live in northern New Jersey you can call the Atlantic Health Systems Crisis Hotline at 973-540-1400 for direct assistance. Outside this area call the Suicide & Crisis Hotline at 1-800-999-9999, 24 hours, 7 days a week.

 

Signed: TeenHealthFX  

 

Um. Ok, so some kid slits his wrists, 3 minutes later he decides he doesn't want to die. So he types an email (with his wrists slit, mind you) to a site and asks for help. Chances are, they probably didn't read his email immediately, which means that if the kid was too stupid to call 911 instead of waiting for a response on what to do, he/she would probably be dead.

 

I hope that this is just one of those mock things that didnt actually happen, but is posted to help people in case they are thinking about doing it. I know theres nothing funny about suicide and all, but still this can't be real.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

It's obviously fake.

 

If this kid was serious about dying, she'd be unconcious by that point, and if the wounds were minor enough where she could type a coherent email 3 minutes afterwards without the keyboard fritzing out, the cuts probably wouldn't even need medical attention.

[Guest papacita]

It's not impossible. I've typed with a slit wrist many a time...in fact, I'm typing with one right now. Oh yeah...

 

 

*passes out*

[Guest DJ Jeff]

It's fake. I mean, if you slit your wrist, it would be near impossible to type an e-mail without a single spelling mistake. Then again, that all depends on how serious the wound is. Plus, even if this was real, they would have phoned 911 themselves, instead of e-mailing someone.

[Guest Ravenbomb]

slit wrists = I scraped a blade against them and it stings a little and I think it might be bleeding

[Guest T®ITEC]

"...3 minutes ago..."

 

Hee hee.

 

 

Oh, uhm, anyway.

[Guest DrTom]

I'd have to say it's fake. It sounds too overwrought, and the use of caps toward the end definitely makes me think this isn't authentic.

 

Unless you REALLY hack deep into your wrists, it's almost impossible to die from slashing them. If you really want to slash something other than your throat and kill yourself, the backs of your ankles are much better than the wrists for the amount of blood they'll spill.

[Guest IDrinkRatsMilk]

back in middle school I must have known about 10 or 15 people that slit their wrists, and not one of them was serious enough to warrant going to the hospital, even if they were serious about killing themselves. if you really want to die from the wrists, you'd have to slash them vertically on your inside forearms, from the wrist almost to the crook of the elbow. Nobody ever even thinks to do it that way.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Unless you REALLY hack deep into your wrists, it's almost impossible to die from slashing them. If you really want to slash something other than your throat and kill yourself, the backs of your ankles are much better than the wrists for the amount of blood they'll spill.

...Could start hacking away at the Femoral artery. Might take a few tries to find it, but when that gets ruptured, look out.

[Guest Prime Time Andrew Doyle]

the backs of your ankles are much better than the wrists for the amount of blood they'll spill.

Damn, Now when I go out ym grandmas back fence, Im going to be so much more scared now, because of the corrigated (sp?) iron fence she has. It once closed on me and I luckly just got a scrape on them

[Guest The Old Me]

If someone slit their wrists, and got on the internet for help instead of calling 911, then I hope they are dead.

[Guest evenflowDDT]

...if you really want to die from the wrists, you'd have to slash them vertically on your inside forearms, from the wrist almost to the crook of the elbow. Nobody ever even thinks to do it that way.

Hey, I remember that from Bringing Out the Dead! You really do learn stuff from the movies!

[Guest §uperÛnknown]

I say that if you're going to kill yourself, find something different than slitting your wrists. Like putting a grenade in your mouth and pulling out the pin, jumping off a bridge into an oncoming truck below or death by electricution by shoving your head through a television screen while watching a David Arquette movie. Just something more interesting so that the people reading your obituary are entertained, instead of going "Oh, he killed himself by slitting his wrists. How cliché."

[Guest Prime Time Andrew Doyle]

Just something more interesting so that the people reading your obituary are entertained

Because damnit, we need to be entertained with obituarys.

[Guest oldschoolwrestling]

I hope he had a cable modem and not dial up...

[Guest Vern Gagne]

Slitting your wrist allows you to think...do I really wanna die. Once you jump off a bridge you're fucked.

[Guest Dopey]

This is for anyone who may honestly be thinking about it. Before you do, get a Bible, and Read the gospel of John, the book or Romans, and the book of Ephesians in the New Testament. Pray before you read these books and see what God has to say to you.

If you still don't feel anything toward God, than I can only hope that you have tried to talk to your parents/spouse/family/best friends or in a last ditch effort the suicide hotline!!!

 

I pray that God will help you and that you will seek help.

 

Love, Dopey.

[Guest IDrinkRatsMilk]

Well, reading the Bible is not necesarily going to do you any good. A lot of times, God (well, not really God, but religion) is one the causes of a suicide attempt, especially with teens. Oftentimes it's all about feeling alone, worthless and unwanted, which, if you're around religious folk and you aren't, only compounds the feelings, because you're probably being constantly persecuted about it/

[Guest Ram]

Fake or not, TeenHealthFX sure wrote a long ass paragraph promoting themselves.

[Guest TheGame2705]

They probably paid a kid to slash their wrists and write them an e-mail. This person is EXTRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEME!!!