Posted by sar on September 16, 2001, at 2:35:19
when i was hospitalised in july, i met a nice well-read schizo poet with whom i got along with well. the problem is that he has become too dependent on me since our release from the hospital. he calls me multiple times every few days, calls me at work and at home, sometimes calm and other times drunk or wired raving raging about suicide, how everything is hopeless and how he is going to hang himslef. he is 35 yrs old, maybe i spoiled him too much when we got out of the hospital, i cleaned his apartment, bought him a nice shirt, washed and cut his hair, and now he is--well, i am his most genuine friend now. this saddens me. i'm not up for the constant phonecalls, i don't know how to handle the suicide threats, i feel really muddled about all of this because he is in such a bad spot, a grey-haored 35 yr-old extreme schizo-affective alcoholic on disability yes he can write poetry and disciss hesse and sartre at length ut that doesn't change the fact thathe is horribly *depressing* i want help him but i don't know what do to. what do i do when he calls me at work to tell me i am the executor of all of his writing in case he offs himself, my manager is prodding me to get off the phone and the friend is ranting that he is such a loser and wants to hang himself?
in a quandry,
sar
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