ok i need motherfucking advice

[Samsa]

how do you help someone that won't help themself but really really really needs help and is like going to die pretty soon if they don't get it??????

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http://www.indiana.edu/~alumni/magta...ages/life1.jpg

So was I once myself a swinger of birches.
And so I dream of going back to be.
It's when I'm weary of considerations,
And life is too much like a pathless wood
Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs
Broken across it, and one eye is weeping
From a twig's having lashed across it open.
I'd like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate willfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth's the right place for love:
I don't know where it's likely to go better.
I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

[scouse_dave]

*inserts julio joke here*

[twice]

haha

[Samsa]

fine. this is a serious fucking question. you can turn it into something julio-related but i really need your advice. how can you help someone that's convinced they're beyond help and has basically accepted the fact that they're gonna die soon?

[Affect]

Just shut up. They don't need help, and you most certainly aren't going to be the one to help them. Give it up, and move on with your life.

all you can do it give them support and keep trying to get them to get help without pushing too much or they'll push you away.

or. if you're up to it, tell an authority that can do something. but that can end a friendship.

[Debaser]

who do you think you are to force your help upon someone who doesn't want it. its a no win situation anyways.

[Samsa]

Originally posted by Debaser:
who do you think you are to force your help upon someone who doesn't want it. its a no win situation anyways.

excuse me? suddenly we're so respectful of different people's values that it is now considered rude to try to keep people from drinking drano once a week?

[Affect]

I really think that I just came down with full blown AIDS, and a sore throat. Being sick is kind of like dying. In a way.

[Affect]

Drano isn't that bad.

[Samsa]

Originally posted by Affect:
I really think that I just came down with full blown AIDS, and a sore throat. Being sick is kind of like dying. In a way.

apparently so is eating french fries. ugh. i'm going on a grape and tomato diet as of now.

Originally posted by Affect:
Drano isn't that bad.

well considering it "eats" organic material.. i suppose not..


wtf?

[FearFactory]

I would like to suggest calling a professional. Getting advice for serious topics on netphoria is like asking your dentist for a haircut.

[the_boy]

Have an intervention. To show the guy how many people really care and that his problem, whatever it may be, is affecting other people too. Maybe he will realise that getting help is the best thing.
Or just tie the guy to a chair poke him with a stick over and over again until he agrees to get help.
Either way....

[Magic the Gathering]

Originally posted by FearFactory:
I would like to suggest calling a professional. Getting advice for serious topics on netphoria is like asking your dentist for a haircut.

Hey they both have fancy chairs.

[Affect]

I got a mad caesar at the dentists the other day.

[FearFactory]

Originally posted by Affect:
I got a mad caesar at the dentists the other day.

Hey, keep your True Anal Stories to yourself.

[Tessellation]

Originally posted by Affect:
Drano isn't that bad.

I assume your mom put that in your cereal.

And no, giving your own posts a "5" is not clever, you Mormon fuck...

[Affect]

Originally posted by Tessellation:

I assume your mom put that in your cereal.

And no, giving your own posts a "5" is not clever, you Mormon fuck...

Good one.

Originally posted by Tessellation:

I assume your mom put that in your cereal.

And no, giving your own posts a "5" is not clever, you Mormon fuck...

but when he's right. it's A-Ok! http://www.netphoria.org/wwwboard/icons/icon14.gif

[FearFactory]

Originally posted by Tessellation:

I assume your mom put that in your cereal.

And no, giving your own posts a "5" is not clever, you Mormon fuck...

Shit, at least you're assuming that his mom poisoned him. You're the one that was dumb enough to willingly drink it, you Non-Mormon fuck...

[Tessellation]

Originally posted by Affect:

Good one.

when you get your own planet after you die(lol), you can create as many clones of me as you'd like and kill them as you see fit.

[INFECTED]

show the possible effects of his/her actions
tell all of his/her friends to speak to him/her

[Oblivious]

i wish i had sound advice to give.

[sppunk]

Worry about others personal lives only takes away from your own. Therefore, don't go out of your way to help someone because you'll end up the one needing the help.

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The stars are projectors, yeah
Projectin’ our lives down to this planet Earth

[BlueStar]

All you can do is be their friend...be there for them. No one can really be helped until they are ready to ask for help.

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~*~Samantha~*~

http://homepages.nyu.edu/~sag249/sigankle.jpg

[Hillzy]

Originally posted by sppunk:
Worry about others personal lives only takes away from your own. Therefore, don't go out of your way to help someone because you'll end up the one needing the help.

[sawdust restaurants]

Originally posted by sppunk:
Worry about others personal lives only takes away from your own. Therefore, don't go out of your way to help someone because you'll end up the one needing the help.

While this post demonstrates your obvious desire to have sex with Ayn Rand, there is a certain element of truth to it in that if you get TOO enmeshed in somebody else's problems, you wind up not helping them.