I'd agree with you there. I think there's suicidal, and than there's wanting to be dead. My friend wants to be dead. He isn't making cries for help, he's actually doing the shit that would kill him. I think he mostly calls me because he doesn't want me to be the one who finds his body. I think it's fair to say most suicidal people want to be dead, but they don't have the "courage" to do it and need help getting over those feelings. I wouldn't even say Dobby is suicidal. He just wanted a little attention and to maybe get people to stop laughing at him, so he threw a little pity party for himself.
Yes! Thank you for saying that - I was a little worried you thought I was saying that anyone who says so much as a word is a faker! As you say, there's "can't bear to live, too scared to die", which is certainly serious business. There's also the "cry for help" - something I also feel should be taken seriously (regardless how wearingly repetitious it becomes). However, "a cry for help" is one thing - straight-up attention whoring is
quite another. And we all know just what Dobson's all about, which makes it very hard to take his threats seriously.
Or at least, it is
now. Remember how, when he made his little announcement, Kiwis were phoning emergency services and swooning in horror and all the rest of it? And Ol' BlueBalls tweets "I'm fine" a few hours later? Well, even
then, I would have been prepared to make an allowance for the man and assume he had a bad moment, vented publically, then hurried off with the intention of ending it all - but at the critical moment, couldn't bring himself to go through with it.
But - for Ebeneezer Manwhore to
then announce that he was taking a sabbatical and "didn't know when he'd be back" - only to waltz back in like nothing had happened
less than three days later... It's at that point I begin to think to myself, "do you know - and forgive me for being a sceptic - but is it
just possible, is it at
all within the realms of feasibility, that Dobson
wasn't truly suicidal? That he
was, in fact, being
a lying, self-indulgent drama queen who played our asses in the hope of obtaining asspats and Patreon crybucks?" And - forgive me for being
so insensitive at what must be
such a difficult period in Dobson's life, when he is clearly
wilting under the the
hideous psychological burden of fine art theft and Team Cats coming second - but it's at
this point, I begin - ever so slightly -
to lose patience.
/end snark