Batsgirl wrote: "I guess the question is, does he have mental health trouble, or is he just a drama queen?" Having had a lot of experience with both, I would say he's just a drama queen - which I have no sympathy for at all. Usually drama queens are self obsessed and not likeable people, so trying to emotionally blackmail people in this way is the only way they can get anyone to want to stay in their company for more than five minutes. And it works - when someone has just stabbed themselves you won't walk out of the door and leave them, you at least call an ambulance, so you end up staying with them - at least temporarily. I would say to anyone who knows a person like this: after the first "suicide attempt" end your friendship for good. It's never going to get any better and you'll only end up hating them, yourself, or both. (I'm not talking about teenagers who are inexperienced in life and think they'll never love again when their partners dump them, and so get drunk and take loads of tablets. I have sympathy for these. I'm talking about people who deliberately try to "kill" themselves in front of an audience - it's obvious that they won't be left to die)