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That's what I'm here for, to try to understand... to do what will help him out the most. I am lost with this whole thing. It scares me to think about how life will treat him once he's on his own. Sigh, it just feels so crappy!

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Sometimes its in our "helping" that the problem lies? his 17, he needs to work it out by himself and be left to make wrong choices. His wanting to die could be because he feels his been given no room to breath? Teenagers are nutorious for having these feelings. LIfe will treat him like it treats everyone else. You need to relax and don't mirror back his anxietys, he donesn't need to feel as if his killing you as well? Just breath and let him be, and I' afraid to say, if the worse EVER happened then that too is his choice.