05/25/2025
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⚠️ Trigger Warning:
Suicidal Ideation, Projection, and Mental Health Crisis
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I received a deeply disturbing message from someone who is clearly in a state of serious mental instability. In it, they not only expressed the desire to die, but indicated they were actively trying to find someone who might agree to end their life.
What makes this situation especially alarming is that they had fixated on a person from their past—someone they haven’t known in many years—and constructed an entirely imagined identity around them. This individual, who has no connection to violence or harm, was framed in their mind as someone who might want to carry out such an act. There is no truth to that belief whatsoever—it exists only in the mind of the person in crisis.
This is not about passive suicidal thoughts. This is about an active and dangerously delusional attempt to draw another person into a fantasy of self-destruction. And in doing so, this person not only risks their own life but could potentially involve someone else in a legal, emotional, or even physical nightmare—all based on a completely fabricated version of who they believe that other person is.
People experiencing mental health crises can lose their grasp on reality. They may not understand how dangerous their thoughts have become—not just to themselves, but to others. They might confuse emotional pain with truth, or reinterpret the past through the lens of trauma, fear, or inner chaos. But when that confusion leads to action—especially action that involves another person—the danger escalates rapidly.
This is not about blame. It’s about recognizing the signs of a crisis before someone gets hurt, directly or indirectly. It’s also a reminder that thoughts are not facts—especially in moments of psychological unraveling. When someone’s inner world becomes so distorted that they begin trying to recruit others to carry out fatal plans based on false beliefs, intervention becomes a moral and community imperative.
Please, if you see something like this happening—if someone you know is expressing violent ideation, especially when it involves others—do not brush it off. Don’t rationalize it. Reach out. Report it. Support them in getting the help they desperately need.
Lives—not just theirs—could depend on it.
