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No, almost all of the time, someone who wants to kill themselves is suffering from depression*. And I don't mean they're a bit sad, I mean the mental illness.

So yes, they should be in the mental hospital.

I'd give advice, but you've already got plenty of that so... Good luck to her, I suppose.

With getting better. Not killing herself.

...This is the single most awkward thing I have ever typed.

*Except for people who are really old or really ill. They just want dignity.

Torrunt wrote:I didn't think people were put into mental hospitals just for attempting suicide :S Wanting to commit suicide sometime in your life doesn't mean you're mental, they should just have someone keep an eye on them.
Unless of course she actually has a mental problem.

If you're just bummed out about something and wish you weren't there to experience your failure, that's completely normal. We all have dark moments.

If you literally want to kill yourself though, you do suffer from a dangerous mental disturbance.

If you think about it, it's pretty obvious that it is. Just imagine you want to eat broken glass all the time. For no real reason. You just think it makes it all better although it really doesn't.

Now replace "eat broken glass" with "put a loaded shotgun under your chin and pull the trigger".

Suicidal tendencies have been trivialized by punk and metal bands in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Before that, it even was acceptable in certain situations to paint a wall with your brain.

But it always was a mental disturbance.

As invertin said, often enough, suicidal tendencies aren't the root of the issue, but there's something else that can be resolved that leads to these tendencies, like a clinical depression.
As it turns out, in the grand majority of treated cases, this is so.
A clinical depression isn't hard to treat. The suicidal tendencies go away eventually.

Don't fall into the trap of not taking suicidal tendencies seriously. You might lose friends because of the "oh, that's completely normal, dude" attitude. Believe me, that's no fun at all.