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Please encourage your friend to see a psychiatrist. It may save their life.

Not that you're necessarily wrong, but you're not necessarily right, either. I've been in not too different a place, and I can say with some confidence that all the psychiatrists in the world don't add up to one good friend who cares.

Look after those relationships, folks. Lose them and they're gone forever.

The parent comment noted they fell out of touch with their friend.

As for your confident advice, that's only true for you. The Uber engineer who took his life had a loving family.

Everyone having suicidal thoughts should be screened by a psychiatrist. Sometimes it takes medication and medication saves lives.

Medication is a problem unless you are sick. We all need confirmation and less pressure...are we sick because of that?

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