My Mom just tried to commit suicide, what do I do?

So, this afternoon I went downstairs to find my dad trying to comfort my mom, who was pretty much having a breakdown. She's been not so good for a while, since my dad was on a business trip. And then she mentioned she'd tried to kill herself but I didn't think she meant recently and then there were sheets with blood on them and I said they were gross because I didn't REALIZE and thought she'd got her period or something and then I saw her wrists and SHE TRIED TO KILL HERSELF last night/this morning at some point and she made an appointment with her therapist but it's in like two weeks and she's all like I don't want to go back to the Hospital but I think she needs to and I feel like it's all my fault because she got really overprotective while my dad was away and I kinda tried to dodge it but maybe that made her worse. And I don't know what to do and I don't want to leave her alone.

 

Okay, I have no practical advice, sadly, but I CAN say that IT IS MOST DEFINITELY NOT YOUR FAULT. In no way is any of it your fault. It was her decision to try, and she may well have done so even if you hadn't been trying to 'dodge' her overprotectiveness. You need to not blame yourself, because if you blame yourself you're going to get miserable and, besides anything else, if you're miserable you won't be able to provide the support you want to give.

 

Holy shit, I'm so sorry your family is going through that. I'm in the camp of 'yes she needs to go to the hospital, or not be left unattended at all'.
It's not your fault. Your mum has some bad brain stuff going on at the moment, but she is the one who hurt herself. You weren't responsible for that. My mum's told me about the stuff she'd do to calm down after getting ready for a suicide attempt. Tea is good, keeping warm and putting on some of her favourite music helped as well. There are countless other people on here who can give better advice than me, if you need to just vent some feelings though my inbox is open.

 

Has anyone called the therapist and actually told them what happened? Maybe your mom can stomach the hospital for 72 hours and the therapist can recommend ither optiobs when she doesnt need to be on watxh?

 

Thank you all so much. You're all really helpful.
@KathyGaele thank you, and I may take you up on that.
@jacktrash I'm eighteen. She made some comments about thinking I don't need her to care for me anymore, I think, which made me feel like it was on me, ya know? The problem with getting relatives involved is that we're relatively (heh) isolated and the nearby relatives are pretty damn bad about brainweird, at least from what I've heard. I want her to go to the hospital, but she's really really against it, and I'm not sure how to bring it up. Oh, and prayers are fine :)
Also, @Lissiel I don't think the therapist knows. I'm kinda scared that she'll not bring it up, cause my family likes to brush things under the rug and ignore them and she really hates hospitals.
@Beldaran I have no idea, I should probably look that up, huh?

 

Hey, so I don't have much advice, sorry but *hugs* if needed.
You were one of the first people I talked to on here, and you seem pretty cool.
Reiteration of not your fault message.

 

Hugs are needed and totally accepted.
Don't be fooled, I'm not cool at all. I am in fact a massive dork. You totally seem cool though.

 

if you are a massive dork, then I am also a massive dork. I think kintsugijin are collectively dorks?

*gives picture of evil scientist mice*

 

Fair enough.
Luv those evil scientist mice.

 

are you okay?
i realize that might be really is a dumb question, but just to ask?

 

I've been better, but I'm not crying all over the place or poking myself with lit matches or scratching myself to bits. I'm sorta repressing all the feels so as to get work done and stuff. Like, the first thing I did after I found out was go to the Apple store because dad's ipad and my computer were broken, so I had to get those fixed. Can't cry in front of mac store guys, they don't need to see that. And then I had to make lunch, and now I have to go buy milk, and then I have to clean up my room, and sign up for classes, and the list goes on. I'm gonna crash tonight, probably.

 

Okay.
I'm giving you cute things because that's what my brain has under the label of Do If Friend Is Having Bad IRL Things, if you don't want that I'll stop.
I'm bad at knowing what words to use. I have all these words, I have more words then I've ever heard used out oud, but apparently when it's important I can't use them.
Sorry.
*more hugging*

 

I love cute things, never ever apologize for cute things. My general method of problem solving is TEA AND CUTE THINGS AND HUGS AND BAKED GOODS, so yeah. I can never say what I mean.

Thanks. We need way more than milk, so I'm upgrading my to do list to include FULL GROCERY SHOP, so that'll help.

 

I would make you tea, if not for the fact that you're over there whereever and I'm over here.

 

I'm down near Plymouth, surrounded by evil cranberry bogs. Fortunatly, I have an electric tea kettle and cabinets full of tea.

Yes, that is exactly what it is. "Em, why did you buy an entire rainbow trout? It still has eyes! And you know we already had two jars of honey, and three cans of coconut milk?"
The answer to the first one is "Dad offered to cook it?" and the second is "But we might run out! Do you know how much we use in a day!?!?!"

 

New Hampshire or MA?
Or are there other plymouths?